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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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A factor of 1.5 by definition.
-- Bert Willing ASW20 "TW" "Steve Davis" a écrit dans le message de ... At 02:42 18 September 2003, Janus2k wrote: John, If you are still wondering about the 4DM breakup, read the NTSB report. From reading the report, the plane did not fail. Mark Actually the wings did fail. They presumably failed above their design load limit. but they still failed in flight causing the crash. A better question would be, how much of a design cushion is there between the load limit and actual failure of the wing? |
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