1 Fatal ...r.a.h or r.a.p?

"Dave S" wrote in message nk.net...

The SQ2000 guy was flying a rotary (mazda derivative) engine that had what the rotary community believes was an
intermittent fuel supply program and was in flight test at the time. The aircraft had made one dead-stick due to
what the community assumed was a vapor lock. This was a fairly low altitude turn back and landing on-field but
off-runway. After some re-work on the fuel system he went up again, and on one of the subsequent flights weeks
later lost power very low, and tried to make another low turn back to the runway. He ended up in trees.

The rotary powered aircraft community participated in both the NTSB investigation and afterwards several purchased
the airframe from the widow and did additional information gathering. Nothing definitive was determined from a
cause standpoint, but one of the fuel injectors (which was used, not new) was found to be faulty from a flow
standpoint.

Dave S

It makes me feel bad that I can't recall his name. I tried a Google search of the newsgroup archives and didn't find
it.

Joe Schneider
8437R



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Joe Schneider

It makes me feel bad that I can't recall his name. I tried a Google
search of the newsgroup archives and didn't find it.

Google "N2992".

Dave S. wrote:

The SQ2000 guy was flying a rotary (mazda derivative) engine ......
Nothing definitive was determined from a cause standpoint, but one
of the fuel injectors (which was used, not new) was found to be
faulty from a flow standpoint.

That is slightly misleading. If you're talking about what caused the
engine to stop producing power, there were a few likely possibilities.
If you're talking about why the aircraft crashed the way it did, the
answer was pretty clear.

For those interested, see:

http://www.cozybuilders.org/N2992_Ac...val/index.html

for an alternative (and IMNSHO, a far more accurate) evaluation.

--
Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006

Thanks for the link, Marc..

For the record I will state that my post regarding this was
unresearched, and from memory alone. I am actually thankful for the time
and work that the rotary community put into investigating his accident.

Dave

Dave S wrote:

Thanks for the link, Marc..

You bet.

...... I am actually thankful for the time and work that the rotary
community put into investigating his accident.

Just for the record, the "rotary community" didn't contribute to the
independent investigation - it was the "canard community" that did the
work and wrote up the report.

And we appreciate the thanks.

--
Marc J. Zeitlin
http://www.cozybuilders.org/
Copyright (c) 2006