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Old December 9th 19, 01:11 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
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Default Looking for pictures of motorglider failures

He must have been a glider pilot or at least, he showed great aptitude and someone should have given him his glider-wings!

Uli
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On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 12:38:56 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
HERE
is an example of a jet sustainer failure to start.Â* Good glide path
control, but I thought he may have waited a bit longer than required
before dumping his ballast.




On 12/8/2019 9:59 AM, Dave Nadler
wrote:



On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 11:46:36 AM UTC-5, kinsell wrote:


No one has mentioned jets? They can be unreliable to get started, and
there's been uncontained blade failures. Even had the engine depart the
A/C.


Interesting, I've heard of numerous failures to start and failure to climb,
but not uncontained blade failures or engine departing AC...





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Dan, 5J