PLANE FLIES FOR TWO HOURS WITH WING MISSING

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
oups.com...
And here I think it's a problem when I lose a fuel cap...

'Tis one of the pleasures of flyin' after ye've had a tot or two of the
Irish. Leetle things don't bother you near so much, don't ye know.

Rich S.

And the wing twern't missin' atall. It was sittin as nice as can be
off the departure end o' Brittas House airstrip...

OTOH, he had more wing left than this guy

http://www.f-16.net/varia_article8.html

I don't believe any of it. Five feet off a 210's wing
means crash, now. Aileron gone and everything. The fuel tank is inboard
of that section, anyway, unless he had Flint aux tip tanks. The whole
story stinks.

Dan

wrote:

I don't believe any of it. Five feet off a 210's wing
means crash, now. Aileron gone and everything. The fuel tank is inboard
of that section, anyway, unless he had Flint aux tip tanks. The whole
story stinks.

Pics

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ill.../ph//my_photos

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cmf...loon/my_photos
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regards

jc

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sanity of the author is not guaranteed

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"jc" wrote in message
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Pics

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ill.../ph//my_photos

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cmf...loon/my_photos

Ennybody else notice that is a turbine-powered 210? Am I living in
yesteryear? I didn't know that a turboprop was an option on a 210.

Rich "Shaking my head" S.

wrote:
I don't believe any of it. Five feet off a 210's wing
means crash, now. Aileron gone and everything. The fuel tank is inboard
of that section, anyway, unless he had Flint aux tip tanks. The whole
story stinks.

Dan

I have to agree. Even assuming it could remain in the air (pics look
like it would and I don't think that is 5 1/2 ft missing), there would
be drastic trim problems. That the pilot and passengers would fly that
long without noticing odd flight characteristics and noone would glance
out the window and "say old chap, I do believe we are missing
something".

Harry K

On 19 Aug 2005 19:12:02 -0700, "Harry K"
wrote:


wrote:
I don't believe any of it. Five feet off a 210's wing
means crash, now. Aileron gone and everything. The fuel tank is inboard
of that section, anyway, unless he had Flint aux tip tanks. The whole
story stinks.

Dan

I have to agree. Even assuming it could remain in the air (pics look
like it would and I don't think that is 5 1/2 ft missing), there would
be drastic trim problems. That the pilot and passengers would fly that
long without noticing odd flight characteristics and noone would glance

The 210 flys like a truck and can haul just about as much. They might
not notice.

out the window and "say old chap, I do believe we are missing
something".

Looks to me like he only lost a wing tip and the leading edge is a
little frayed.

Doesn't look like a turboprop though. Those look like normal stacks
to me.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Harry K

Doesn't look like a turboprop though. Those look like normal stacks
to me.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Looks to me that the prop is fully feathered. Would that not indicate
that it's a turbine?

Thats a turbine, i have worked on one and you can tell because of how
large the exast is and the prop is feathered like a turbine, single
engine recipes don't feather all the way.
Drew Dalgleish wrote:
Doesn't look like a turboprop though. Those look like normal stacks
to me.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Looks to me that the prop is fully feathered. Would that not indicate
that it's a turbine?

Missing a few feet of wing in the pictures, for sure, but
that doesn't mean that it happened in flight, nor that it flew that
way. I've seen similar pictures of aircraft damaged that way on the
ground by trucks or other aircraft, or even by bad landings in strong
crosswinds. Even taxying too close to a signpost at excessive speed
could do it. The end of the wing is badly mashed and would present huge
drag and really serious controllability problems.
Let's see:
Mashed left wingtip, massive drag requiring all the
rudder he has, maybe not enough at that.
Loss of lift from mashed wing section (disturbed airflow)
requiring extra lift from aileron, which itself is a third gone
Loss of lift because part of wing is missing, meaning
more aileron required. Those ailerons simply can't make up the
difference.

And nobody noticed. Right.

The engine is probably a Soloy conversion, more
common on 206s. An Allison turbine set up to drive a prop.

Dan