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September 18th 03, 01:01 PM
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Doris and I just returned from another funeral, so I missed some email
messages for a few days. I spoke with the Schempp-Hirth factory and they tell me they have now checked a fairly large number of Discus and have found no problems. In the meantime, the German LBA will issue some kind of directive after a meeting on September 24th. The obvious prudent course is to not fly any affected Discus models specified in the following document until after this meeting: http://www.lba.de/dokumente/ad/2003-266-e.pdf Schempp-Hirth owners may want to sign up for my free newsletter at www.eglider.org as this is the easiest way for me to communicate with everyone. Tom Knauff Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies Julian, Pa Phone 814-355-2483 "Chris OCallaghan" wrote in message om... It appears that a third S-H aircraft has broken up in flight this season. Rather than giving private assurances/explanations to individual S-H owners, could someone in-the-know please tell us what is going on? 
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September 21st 03, 03:46 AM
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My Discus CS was checked by Wolfgang and Thomas from Shempp-Hirth in Denver
on Friday. A small void was found about 2 feet inboard from the aileron belcrank inspection cover. It was probed and extended about 3 inches spanwise and a half inch chordwise. It was repaired. "Thomas Knauff" wrote in message link.net... Doris and I just returned from another funeral, so I missed some email messages for a few days. I spoke with the Schempp-Hirth factory and they tell me they have now checked a fairly large number of Discus and have found no problems. In the meantime, the German LBA will issue some kind of directive after a meeting on September 24th. The obvious prudent course is to not fly any affected Discus models specified in the following document until after this meeting: http://www.lba.de/dokumente/ad/2003-266-e.pdf Schempp-Hirth owners may want to sign up for my free newsletter at www.eglider.org as this is the easiest way for me to communicate with everyone. Tom Knauff Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies Julian, Pa Phone 814-355-2483 "Chris OCallaghan" wrote in message om... It appears that a third S-H aircraft has broken up in flight this season. Rather than giving private assurances/explanations to individual S-H owners, could someone in-the-know please tell us what is going on?
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