In article , Barnyard BOb says...

...so now when you guys endlessly flame yawn for not flying his bd5
consider the reality and risks that he faces.

I think the reason yawn is flamed isn't that he won't fly his BD5.
Rather, it's that he continues to flog the BD5 as wonderful, easy to
fly, totally evolved, beyond all it's early problems and better than
competitors like the Vari Eze or KR1.

And THEN he won't fly his own.

My prayers for your friend.
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To reinforce the above fact that
Yawn is his own worst enemy...

He also belittled the Vans RV-3 as being less safe than the BD-5.

I don't recall the particulars, but Yawn stated in this ng that
the Van's RV-3 was a death trap, I was quite stupid and
would shortly be very dead for flying one.

That was probably 7 years and 700 RV-3 hours ago.

IMO, Yawn is nothing more than a megalomaniacal
loud mouth confrontational coward. All hat and
no cattle.....

I can imagine if this incident happened in my design. Jaun would be all over me
blaming me for what happened.Funny there's never a peep out of him when a BD is
involved.

Unfortunately sometimes bad things happen in this game of experimental flying
and a lot of times it's just bad luck.Sounds like that's the case here in the
BD-5 incident.From what I read he was on the ground with the engine running for
a longer time then normal and possibly the internal cowling temps got higher
then usual causing the possible vapor lock. That can be remedied now that the
problem is identified.

The bad luck is that the engine ran just long enough to put the pilot into a
very bad spot.Good luck would have the engine quit during T/O with room to stop
or better yet on the run up.No blame here just bad luck.

My best wishes to the pilot and I pray for his complete recovery.The fact that
he's recovering feeling in his feet is a very good sign.Good luck to all.

Chuck S