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Crash near Miami, FL
Those seaplanes were built to operate on the ocean. They
also have probably been rebuilt several times with replacement of the skin and other structure. Much more likely is that a new fuel line to the new turboprop engine failed, for what ever reason and that caused a chain of events which led to the wing spar being softened by the fire, which caused it to fail. You'll find a lot of corrosion on land planes parked around any big city due to air pollution, acid rain and car and factory exhausts fumes get everywhere. -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P -- Merry Christmas Have a Safe and Happy New Year Live Long and Prosper Jim Macklin -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm "Stubby" wrote in message ... | tscottme wrote: | "vincent p. norris" wrote in message | ... | | Hey did you know that according to MSNBC the Mallard is a "hydroplane". | | All | | the years I dealt with them I thought they were seaplanes. | | They've been called that since the days of Glenn Curtiss. | | So you see, you don't know everything, either. Perhaps you shouldn't | be judging Mary S. ((:-)) | | vince norris | | | Did I "credit" Shiavo with the hydroplane comment? None of us that worked | on or around them, including the Chalks employees I knew ever once called | any of the aircraft a hydroplane. Maybe the accident aircraft hit an air | pocket? | | Mary made a couple of humdingers during her commentary on TV today, as she | usually does. Did you know the aircraft, contrary to FAA records and the | data plates I saw with my own eyes, couldn't have been of mid 1940's origin. | Mary informs us that seawater is far too corrosive to see such an aged | aircraft survive to the present. Mary wrote a book so she knows better than | the aircraft owners and maintenance personnel what she is talking about, | just ask her. | | My ASES instructor said to don't even think about sal****er near his | plane. He said no matter how thoroughly you wash it off, it will still | corrode. |
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Hilton wrote:
Tim wrote: Then again, maybe someone will focus on the inherent danger of flying paying passengers in an airplane that can't maintain a takeoff flight path with one engine inoperative. Not a problem when you're taking off on an infinitely long runway as they were. What's an infinitely long runway? I don't know what happened here, but there have been plenty of takeoff, engine failure crashes that occurred beyong the airport boundaries, even with a 12,000' long runway. KMIA has had more than its share of takeoff accidents because of all the junk birds that operate to and from there to places south. Gees, I hate it when infants, kids, babies die. Sad... Yep! Or, for that matter, any innocent passenger who doesn't know what they are climbing into. |
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Jim Macklin wrote:
Reports and photographs indicate that there was a fire and fuel explosion and one wing was blown off the airplane. Kind of hard to fly anywhere with only half an airplane. My guess at this point, a fuel line leak in the nacelle and the fuel mixture in the wing root exploded. Normal procedure for any seaplane is to land (is that water?) but the Grumman Albatross (the Mallard is smaller) with the turboprop engines flies just fine on one engine. Engine failure was pure speculation on my part. An in-flight explosion brings to mind all kinds of ugly possibililites. |
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Mike H wrote:
so I doubt that your comments (or mine) have any bearing whatsoever on this crash. So it would seem. |
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wrote in message news:ceVpf.1987$LB5.1444@fed1read04...
What's an infinitely long runway? That reminds me of the pithy old saying, to the effect that if someone could build a runway extending all the way around the world, then Grumman could build an airplane that would need all of it. |
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That was in reference to Republic
"John R. Copeland" wrote in message .. . wrote in message news:ceVpf.1987$LB5.1444@fed1read04... What's an infinitely long runway? That reminds me of the pithy old saying, to the effect that if someone could build a runway extending all the way around the world, then Grumman could build an airplane that would need all of it. |
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John R. Copeland wrote:
wrote in message news:ceVpf.1987$LB5.1444@fed1read04... What's an infinitely long runway? That reminds me of the pithy old saying, to the effect that if someone could build a runway extending all the way around the world, then Grumman could build an airplane that would need all of it. That would be handy for practicing takeoffs and landings without wasting fuel to go around the patch. |
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Tim wrote:
Hilton wrote: Tim wrote: Then again, maybe someone will focus on the inherent danger of flying paying passengers in an airplane that can't maintain a takeoff flight path with one engine inoperative. Not a problem when you're taking off on an infinitely long runway as they were. What's an infinitely long runway? They took off on water with water in front of them for many many miles. Hilton |
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None of us that worked
on or around them, including the Chalks employees I knew ever once called any of the aircraft a hydroplane. The word is in my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, copyright date 2002. It is also found frequently in the historical literature. vince norris |
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"vincent p. norris" wrote in message ...
None of us that worked on or around them, including the Chalks employees I knew ever once called any of the aircraft a hydroplane. The word is in my Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, copyright date 2002. It is also found frequently in the historical literature. vince norris So then, what should we call a racing power boat with a step in its hull, designed for high-speed skimming across the water surface? |
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