Pa 22/20 crash last night, including to Facebook everyone is ok, just one person got some broken bones (possibly the pilot).
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-n...s-three-people
Pa 22/20 crash last night, including to Facebook everyone is ok, just one person got some broken bones (possibly the pilot).
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-n...s-three-people
WOW!! that is a ugly wreck. amazing they are alive. best wishes to heal up and get back in the air to them
Last edited by Brian; 04-23-2017 at 12:19 AM.
Brian
Monrovia, CA
Thanks, Brian for the introduction to Kathryn's Report.
As I looking thought there I saw this. http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2017/0...l-08-2017.html
If you rebuild an airplane, get more that one person to look the finished plane over.
The cause of this accident has happened way too many times. Very few pilots survive reversed cables.
Any time I have the elevator cables off he first thing I do after reconnecting them is check and re- check they are correct.
Pull the stick back and the elevator goes up, the connector on the bottom cable is against the hard stop at the rudder post. Pushed the stick forward and elevator goes down, the front bottom of the elevator horn is hard against the front stop which is short tube between the upper longerons.
Then do it several more times.
Last edited by Gilbert Pierce; 04-23-2017 at 02:21 PM.
Well one of these days I will tell you what it is like to take a C-170B off of a narrow gravel country road with the rudder hooked up backwards after restoration. I will say it gets real interesting when the tail comes up and you start looking at a ditch and a fence.
A late model C-170B doesn't steer from the rudder horn but from cables that go into the fuselage.
So the tail wheel steers correct with the rudder pedals.
It
Last edited by wyandot jim; 04-23-2017 at 10:50 PM.
Two incidence in Maules with reversed elevator cables lead to an AD to color code the cables both at the elevator and at the bellcrank. Pretty bad when you have to idiot proof the simpleist tasks.
Did that once on an RC model.... similar results. (OUCH!)