Jabiru 5100 - any experiences yet?

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:13:58 -0500, " jls" wrote:

"Ron Wanttaja" wrote in message
.. .
[...]There was the RAH-15 case, a classic example of a
SLAPP suit.

Which makes me wonder. Could anything have backfired any worse? Could
anyone have committed a more strategic blunder?

I ain't saying it was a *typical* SLAPP suit. :-)

Other homebuilt companies have garnered somewhat of a history
of suing their customers...for example, see:

http://www.seawind.cc/builders_sued.htm

The guy who put up this page is not afraid of being sued. It sounds to me
like he'd fight a buzz-saw.

But he has been forced to shut his web page down several times. About two
years ago, I got email from Seawind asking that I remove the link to his
site on my "Avlinks" web page. I checked it then, and all it consisted of
at that time was a note saying he'd had to remove the site due to legal
problems. I didn't delete the link, but did a comment to the effect that
it was not an official site (the same disclaimer carried on the site
itself). I was actually a bit surprised the other night when I clicked it
and the full web page appeared.

I suspect his legal problems ended when the company went out of business
and the owner moved his operation to Canada.

Ron Wanttaja

In article , Ron Wanttaja says...
I suspect his legal problems ended when the company went out of business
and the owner moved his operation to Canada.

Ron Wanttaja

....and the savior of aviation didn't report it??? :-)

See ya

Chuck S

Can anyone give us a specific hint as to what the problem is with
the Jab 5100 instead of these inuendos whose intent is to leave
a lot to the imagination?
"Mike"'s web flight report had no problem indications at
all on his Jab 5100 testflights. The least you would expect is for
him to say some true technical results - engine "missfired only once",
"a slight lack of power at takeoff", "slight starting problems"...
whatever... But there was no such comments. How can you get sued for
stating what happened in a test flight.
In fact, even his current web comments describe the test flights
for engine performance with same paragraphs used for the original
Jab 5100 write ups. There are yet no reports for the "newer"
autoconversion GM V6 engine with electronic fuel injection
which will yield more horsepower (240).

An obvious conclusion is that he wants more power (note that
Jabiru 5100 is down to 180 hp from original 200HP peak) and with
fuel injection aerobatics is more possible but less likely
with the carbureted Jab 5100. His plane specs indicate +6/-3 G
limited aerobatics. Inverted flights with carb engines
could be life threatening.

Facts please - not emotional bashing.

-------------------------------------------------------------
Paul Lee, SQ2000 canard project: http://www.abri.com/sq2000

Info wrote in message ...
Best thing is to ask Mike Sullivan who was the exclusive tester for them
in his 3/4 scale spitfire, when i ran into him at LAX he had rolled up
his third (and last) plane with the engine and was adamant he wouldn't
recommend then to anyone, period.

Do a search and ask him, they nearly cost him his life........ Michael

"Paul Lee" wrote in message
om...
Can anyone give us a specific hint as to what the problem is with
the Jab 5100 instead of these inuendos whose intent is to leave
a lot to the imagination?

Innuendo, hell. Assuming the conversation at LAX to be truthful and
accurate, you should have no trouble concluding there were 3 catastrophic
engine failures.

Innuendo, hell. Assuming the conversation at LAX to be truthful and
accurate, you should have no trouble concluding there were 3 catastrophic
engine failures.

Well there is nothing documented to this fact, just u saying that he told u
this at LAX

Innuendo, hell. Assuming the conversation at LAX to be truthful and
accurate, you should have no trouble concluding there were 3 catastrophic
engine failures.

Also remember that if he did have these catastrophic engine failures and he
didnt document them or anything else he could be liabel for any thing that
comes of it, casue the sites all day its a great engine, including quotes from
him

There's one important point that everyone has overlooked regarding the
new Jabiru 8 cylinder engine. Just tell me how many of the new whiz
bang engine management systems provide for CHT and EGT data on 8
cylinders.

"CW9371" wrote in message
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Innuendo, hell. Assuming the conversation at LAX to be truthful and
accurate, you should have no trouble concluding there were 3 catastrophic
engine failures.

Well there is nothing documented to this fact, just u saying that he told
u
this at LAX

Learn to read. I was not a party to the conversation. Learn to write
too.

Also learn to do a little research. Do you expect all your questions to be
answered here in rec.anarchy.homebuilt?

"CW9371" wrote in message
...
Innuendo, hell. Assuming the conversation at LAX to be truthful and
accurate, you should have no trouble concluding there were 3 catastrophic
engine failures.

Also remember that if he did have these catastrophic engine failures and
he
didnt document them or anything else he could be liabel for any thing that
comes of it, casue the sites all day its a great engine, including quotes
from
him

Get his phone number and call him. Quit your whining.

"Captain Avgas" wrote in message
om...
There's one important point that everyone has overlooked regarding the
new Jabiru 8 cylinder engine. Just tell me how many of the new whiz
bang engine management systems provide for CHT and EGT data on 8
cylinders.

Hey, Bob. Just buy and install two four-cylinder sets.