On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:01:09 GMT, Dave S wrote:

Ron Wanttaja wrote:

The FAA has just issued an emergency AD that appears to ground _all_ Beech
T-34 aircraft, all models, until further notice, after confirming that the

I could pull 6+ Gs in a rolling pullout in MY airplane and SOMETHING would
come off of it. The FAA would just call it pilot error.


Nice bit of background in the December issue of AIR AND SPACE magazine:

http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/A...5/DJ/svmt.html

Ron Wanttaja

And it went to press a month or so too early... given the current
circumstances..

Oh, I don't know...it certainly doesn't imply that the problems were definitely
over. To quote the last line on Peter Garrison's article: "Like an athlete who
discovers in his 40s that his body can no longer take the punishment it used to,
the T-34 was passing into a new phase: not old age, but perhaps middle age, a
time for reflection, restraint, and an awareness of mortality."

Garrison's announced himself on the T-34 bulletin board on Yahoo; it'll be
interesting to see what he says.

Ron Wanttaja