Was this a one rotor engine Tracy? I can't imagine putting a two rotor
engine in this airplane.

Paul Lamar.

Tracy Crook wrote:

Can't find the original message now but I thought it was talking about a
plane called Discovery (or something like that) which was a canard.  The
description of the crash & other details sounded exactly like the one I

was

familiar with.  If the crash in question was in a Rans S12 it definitely

was

not the one I was talking about. Sorry if I got off on a tangent.

Tracy

I don't think the NTSB has a record of a 13B canard losing a muffler.
What year did that happen? NTSB goes only back to 1983.

Paul Lamar

I never saw the NTSB report and do not know if it had engine data in it.  As
you noted earlier, these reports are lacking a lot of details we'd like to
know.  I learned the details from the plaintiff's lawyer in 96 or 97.    You
probably will not find any NTSB record of an aircraft accident involving a
135 HP V4 Evenrude in 1985 but I had a "front row seat" for that one :-)

Tracy Crook
tcrook@rotaryaviation.com
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