"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
ps.com...
Wow -- that must've been a nice landing...not. What happened?

Coming in for my last landing of the day, pitched the nose down, fuel went
of the fuel pickup line and engine quit... Should not have been a problem...
Pitched nose down at 60 degree angle, 60 mph descent, right before hitting,
pulled back on the stick, but it wouldn't flare... Hit the concrete /
asphalt of the runway doing the gyro version of a lawn dart... The W&B was
off on the gyro -- I had bought it from a guy south of Miami who was quite a
bit smaller than I and didn't do a "hang test" like I was *supposed* to...
It flew and landed well with the power on, but with the power off, it
wouldn't flare...

And, dang, you've lost a bunch of girth since that picture was taken!
Or is that the broken rib pushing your shirt out?

Nawh, the shirt if probably just a bit baggy and coming out and the wind is
filling it out... I suspect that I probably weighed a couple pounds less
back then... Here's what the gyro looked like a bit earlier that day...
http://i1.tinypic.com/v6m813.jpg