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(Michael) wrote:



And the jug actually came off? When I say lost a jug, I do mean a
cylinder cracked and came off the engine.

Wow! I didn't realize you meant it literally. G

But yes, in my case the entire head came off the cylinder..only the
baffling kept it from going anywhere.

We didn't realize how bad it was...notice some smoke from the top of the
cowl on #4, reduced the throttle a bit and the smoke lessened a bit.
Instruments were all normal, was still putting out power..there was no
yaw. Returned for landing and the ground crew was looking at us kind of
funny as we taxied in...it was making a bunch of noise. G The piston
was beat up pretty bad, much longer and we would have started munching
the engine with debris going thru it.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

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