Unusual engine

Tina wrote:
There are just not that many places in the US where you can, with a
night time engine failure, just establish a glide and walk way from
the landing.

This guy almost made a field and a small airport after ATC vectors.

Snowbird wrote:
"B A R R Y"wrote..
A few years back, a 75 hr. brand-new PPL lost a prop, while flying a
Warrior near my home. The prop was found about 5 miles from the airplane.

So this plane apparently lost the complete propeller? Then it should be able
to glide just fine, as it did.

Yup. Overtorqued and broken bolts. The plane was a rental.

"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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Snowbird wrote:
"B A R R Y"wrote..
A few years back, a 75 hr. brand-new PPL lost a prop, while flying a
Warrior near my home. The prop was found about 5 miles from the
airplane.

So this plane apparently lost the complete propeller? Then it should be
able to glide just fine, as it did.

Yup. Overtorqued and broken bolts. The plane was a rental.


Oh you mean Coast Guard tight! Strip it and then back it off a 1/4 turn!

On Nov 18, 7:00 am, Stefan wrote:
I've just stumbled over this picture. Does anybody know what kind of
engine this is?http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0537804&size=M

This was the engine that was going to be used on the 7J7 by Boeing.
The 7J7 was a developmental program for an airplane about the size of
a 727 that would have become the 777, but was canceled. Boeing later
started the 767-X program with a much larger airplane than the 7J7
that eventually became the 777 that is currently in production.

Dean

Richard Riley wrote in
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:01:55 -0500, "Peter Dohm"
wrote:

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I was told that if the engine came out that you would probably be
so far out of CG you would crash tail first. So that surprises me
that the Navajo made it down under control.



Well, only one of them came off. the other just quit.
You're right, though .On a single you would have little chance.
There was a Stearman that the engine came off of and they did make
it, or so the story went.
The Navajo wasn't all that long ago. there must be some pics
somewhere.


Bertie


I heard of a similar and long ago case in which the engine came off of
a "bathtub" Aeronca and the pilot managed to land it safely.

I suppose that the Aeronca would have been the easiest of them, but
it's still high up on the list of places and times that I am glad to
have been absent. I don't even want to think about the other two!

There was a Vari-Eze that lost it's engine on takeoff about 10 years
ago. He landed straight ahead. He said he had no idea from the
handling that he'd physically lost the engine till he got out of the
airplane.

OTOH, there was Cherokee 140 that had it's cowling open on final. AC
shifted way forward, he departed and spun in.

I doubt very much that was a CG issue. I'd say it was more a case of him
losing the plot because he was startled. That's happened to lots of
people over the years and they've landed noramlly, if a little rattled.


Forward CG is easier to handle than aft.

True enough

Bertie

"Richard Riley" wrote

Nope. It says "Although, by virtue of its low Specific Thrust, the
engine demonstrated an extremely low specific fuel consumption"

I guess I misread that.
--
Jim in NC