Thread: Badwater Bill
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Old October 27th 08, 07:51 AM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:09:54 -0700, Ron Wanttaja
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... but not only does it apparently feature a LOT of locks up forward, the
canopy should have been the first item to depart the airframe had it come open.
It would have been found with the personal items that came out.

Ron Wanttaja


it is tragic to see the number of people killed in lancairs.
canopies seem to have little to do with it.
the design seems so optimised for high speed flight that people
regularly come unstuck in the slow speed regime.

at one stage 50% of australian built lancairs had killed their
builders and passenger in slow speed flight fatal incidents.

tragic.
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