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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... C.D.Damron wrote: Don't you just hate it when they call your bluff? Matt I thought I had it close at hand. We'll find it. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
Bin Fetters wrote:
Just like many commercial helicopters that also had premature failures (and that did test 2000 hours), including the R-22 and R-44, some of our components did not make it to the designed life. Your designs will never ever be in the sake league as that of Frank Robinson and NONE of your designs made it even even CLOSE to 2000 hours. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
C.D.Damron wrote:
"Dennis Fetters" wrote... The first time I took it to Oshkosh it had 0 hours. The second time it had 210 hours. Who left the master switch on? By July of 1995, N500ZZ (serial #0000) only had 200 hours and was by everybody's opinion, the aircraft with the most time. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
Dennis Fetters wrote:
C.D.Damron wrote: "Dennis Fetters" wrote in message et... You are welcome to prove this statement by posting a little thing called facts. FACT: In your literature, you claimed 2000 hour TBO for non-engine parts while you had never tested any parts for anything approaching 2000 hours. WRONG!! In our literature we said that we designed the components to a 2000 hour TBO. Ah. You deliberately misled customers by using weasel words, but didn't quite say "to", you used the word "with". Here are some quotes from various brochures over the years: All components, except the Rotax 582 engine, were designed with a 2,000 hour T.B.O. All components, except the engine, are designed with a TBO of at least 2,000 hours. High TBO: All components except the engine and lifetime composite main blades, are designed with a TBO up to 2,000 hours. The main transmission contains a set of ground spiral bevel ring and pinion gears, designed and manufactured specifically for the Mini-500B to give a 2,000 hour TBO. We also stated that they were not tested to a 2000 hour TBO. You _never_ stated any such thing. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
Bin Fetters wrote:
Just like many commercial helicopters that also had premature failures (and that did test 2000 hours), including the R-22 and R-44, some of our components did not make it to the designed life. Your designs will never EVER be in the same league as that of Frank Robinson's and NONE of your designs made it even CLOSE to 2000 hours. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
"Dennis Fetters" wrote Designer of; Air Command 1/plcs Gyroplanes Air Command 2/plcs Gyroplanes Mini-500 1/Plcs Helicopter Voyager-500 2/Plcs Helicopter Excalibur 5/Plcs Turbine Helicopter Star-Lite-A VTUAV Helicopter Star-Lite-B VTUAV Helicopter Are they all deathtraps or only the Mini-500? |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message ... C.D.Damron wrote: "Dennis Fetters" wrote... The first time I took it to Oshkosh it had 0 hours. The second time it had 210 hours. Who left the master switch on? By July of 1995, N500ZZ (serial #0000) only had 200 hours and was by everybody's opinion, the aircraft with the most time. For Fetters, the history of the Mini-500 starts with the display and demos of Cicare CH-6 at Oshkosh. He refers to this aircraft as "the prototype", but in his own posts states that he did not have access to the prototype after he ended his relationship with Cicare, forcing him to design and test a helicopter from scratch. Based on the timeline, Fetters designed a helicopter from scratch in a year and half after ending his relationship with Cicare, all the while taking orders based largely on the excitement generated by the earlier CH-6. I find it an amazing task that a helicopter could be designed, built, and tested in this timeframe. If you think that timeframe is a little tight, throw in a 1993 flood that Fetters has said resulted in delays. The high-time aircraft had about 200 hours on it by July of 1995. I DIDN'T THINK OF IT EARLIER, BUT I WONDER WHEN THE FIRST AIRCRAFT WAS ASSEMBLED AND TESTED USING PRODUCTION PARTS AS THEY APPEARED IN ACTUAL PRODUCTION KITS. This is an important question, as many of the problems associated with the Mini-500 were quality control issues that might have been revealed had adequate testing been performed on a kit-built aircraft, instead of a prototype craft where every part is crafted under close scrutiny. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
I don't think he's been able to sell anything since the 500 fiasco.
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
My observation is:
1. Denise is a good businessman, but not a good designer. 2. Cicarre is a good designer, but not a good businessman. |
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(Mini-500)I want to build the most EVIL plane EVER !!!
Dennis Fetters wrote:
That is true, as I said then and as I say now.... "YOU should not fly the Mini-500, or any aircraft for that matter, that no longer has factory support". Will do! mk5000 "And I see amazing And I feel it too I wish you could meet her 'Coz she comes and goes and when you see her you'll know"--Truly Amazing (OST-Passion of the Christ), POD |
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