Nobody believed that we walked away

Monty

Tnx for the posting. Will give group who reads a feel for the Express.

The pitch down with full rudder deflection during flight test I never
ran into in any airplane I flew in my thousands of hours. Would be
kind of scary if at low altitude where you could not trade altitude to
regain air speed and control.

You could get into that condition in a large angle slip and crash on
final ( I didn't see if the new larger tail assy fully cured the
blanking problem.

Big John

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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:43:44 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

("Big John" wrote)
Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild guess.

Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was
featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know.


http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg
Cover Pictu CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007

http://www.contactmagazine.com/backissu.html
CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007
"Chevy Powered Wheeler Express."
Bud Warren of Geared Drives introduces us to his geared redrive, as proven
with his beautifully crafted Wheeler Express. Former CONTACT! Magazine
editor and publisher Mick Myal found this story for us at SnF 2007 and
through a collaborative effort with Bud's daughter Phyllis Ridings-Murawski,
they bring us this article.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=901RC&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind .y=0
N-Number (from the picture)

http://www.ezchair.com/photo.htm
Pics of a different Wheeler Express

http://www.sierratel.com/jerico/Expr...%20Article.pdf
VERY GOOD pdf article


Montblack

The poor ol Wheeler Express just keeps crashing...
There I very few aircraft designs that I absolutely will not fly in,
however the Wheeler is one of them... Bad karma...

denny

Denny wrote:

The poor ol Wheeler Express just keeps crashing...
There I very few aircraft designs that I absolutely will not fly in,
however the Wheeler is one of them... Bad karma...

denny


Not.

It's an honest and unforgiving high performance machine flown by
people who simply don't have the skills.

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:27:47 -0500, Big John wrote:

Monty

Tnx for the posting. Will give group who reads a feel for the Express.

The pitch down with full rudder deflection during flight test I never ran
into in any airplane I flew in my thousands of hours. Would be kind of
scary if at low altitude where you could not trade altitude to regain air
speed and control.

You could get into that condition in a large angle slip and crash on final
( I didn't see if the new larger tail assy fully cured the blanking
problem.

Big John

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On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:43:44 -0500, "Montblack"
wrote:

("Big John" wrote)
Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild
guess.

Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was
featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know.


http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg Cover Pictu
CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007

http://www.contactmagazine.com/backissu.html CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed
July 19, 2007 "Chevy Powered Wheeler Express."
Bud Warren of Geared Drives introduces us to his geared redrive, as
proven with his beautifully crafted Wheeler Express. Former CONTACT!
Magazine editor and publisher Mick Myal found this story for us at SnF
2007 and through a collaborative effort with Bud's daughter Phyllis
Ridings-Murawski, they bring us this article.

http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=901RC&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind .y=0
N-Number (from the picture)

http://www.ezchair.com/photo.htm
Pics of a different Wheeler Express

http://www.sierratel.com/jerico/Expr...%20Article.pdf VERY GOOD
pdf article


Montblack


From the article: "...a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the
oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered...Soon, he and his two
passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the
plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank."

Let me see if I have this right. Airplane with a highly experimental
engine config has an engine failure and the engine is on fire.
Airplane lands in field and clips a fence and some how it's that bad old
Wheeler's fault.

--
Joe Chisolm
Marble Falls, TX