Rich: They made it to Oshkosh. They were switching off. One flying and
the other driving a van towing a small trailer with some tools, oil and
misc. They flew at Oskosh including two circuits of the main show when they
let us fling wings have about 15 minutes of show time. However, on the way
home, and about 30 miles out of Paine Field, the pilot experienced a problem
and did an auto that had a landing that didn't really render the ship
useable again. Pilot was uninjured. Probably on an NTSB report by now.
The Safaris are built very well when it comes to survivability. I know. I
crashed mine once. (Pilot error). The two partners were retired Marine
Pilots. The pilot at the time of the auto had in excess of 3500 hrs helo
time; much of it in Vietnam.
The kit manufacturer, Canadian Home Rotors once flew their ship from Ear
Falls Canada to Sun'n Fun. The pilot had no chase crew.

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"Rich S." wrote in message
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"Stuart & Kathryn Fields" wrote in message
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A note of interest: I'm flying a Safari, have 250hrs and have not had
any
real maintenance that was not caused by me fooling around with different
ideas other than oil and filter change. . . snip

Here's an anecdote BTW. I think it was in Laurel, Montana as we were
fueling
after a RON on the way to Oshkosh.

There was a red helicopter at the pumps with "EXPERIMENTAL" placards. He
had
just flown the same route across Washington, Idaho and Montana one day
earlier than us. The headwinds were nothing short of ferocious that day -
I
was really glad they had calmed a bit when we came through.

He told me they were home based at Paine Field if I remember correctly.
They
had to lay over an extra day for some part to be delivered. I think he
told
me they flew over Mullen Pass accompanied by a Super Cub or something
similar. Kind of a buddy system.

In any case, he was headed for Oshkosh, too at a staggering 90 mph or so.
Two souls on board - I hope they made it all the way. The machine had
Marine
Corps decals on it and looked sharp.

Rich S.