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Nobody believed that we walked away
Extracted from Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct 2007. The small home-built plane that uses a Chevrolet car engine was featured last month on the cover of Contact, a magazine that spotlights experimental aircraft. On Thursday night, Bud Warren, of Conroe,TX, was flying his creation to the West Houston Airport. He was to give a presentation to the EAA group on his invention that regulates how fast the chevy engine turns a propeller. With years of experience as a pilot in Houston air shows, soaring in formation with replicas of historical aircraft used in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora and as a National Hot Rod Association race car builder -- showing off the plane he'd flown since 2003. But then, a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered. A ground observer said the engine was coughing and sputtering like a lawn mower engine does. Soon, he and his two passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank. Billowing flames were licking the outside of the craft as the three jumped out the plane's door to the ground -- and 45 seconds later the entire cockpit was engulfed. Buds daughter said "Nobody believed that we walked away". Bud had the back of his calves, some hair and his fingers singed slightly. All had a few bumps and scratches. The plane was valued at $150.000. Bud believed an oil line must have ruptured as they smelled oil burning right before the problems began. Bud isn't going to let the accident set him back and is already talking about building another plane and getting back in sky. End of extract Pictures with article in paper showed everything (including wings) burned down to nothing from just behind the trailing edge of wing forward. Only rear bit of fueslage and tail survived as shown in pictures. Good pilot and lots of luck. Big John |
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On Oct 21, 11:16 am, Big John wrote:
Extracted from Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct 2007. The small home-built plane that uses a Chevrolet car engine was featured last month on the cover of Contact, a magazine that spotlights experimental aircraft. On Thursday night, Bud Warren, of Conroe,TX, was flying his creation to the West Houston Airport. He was to give a presentation to the EAA group on his invention that regulates how fast the chevy engine turns a propeller. With years of experience as a pilot in Houston air shows, soaring in formation with replicas of historical aircraft used in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora and as a National Hot Rod Association race car builder -- showing off the plane he'd flown since 2003. But then, a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered. A ground observer said the engine was coughing and sputtering like a lawn mower engine does. Soon, he and his two passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank. Billowing flames were licking the outside of the craft as the three jumped out the plane's door to the ground -- and 45 seconds later the entire cockpit was engulfed. Buds daughter said "Nobody believed that we walked away". Bud had the back of his calves, some hair and his fingers singed slightly. All had a few bumps and scratches. The plane was valued at $150.000. Bud believed an oil line must have ruptured as they smelled oil burning right before the problems began. Bud isn't going to let the accident set him back and is already talking about building another plane and getting back in sky. End of extract Pictures with article in paper showed everything (including wings) burned down to nothing from just behind the trailing edge of wing forward. Only rear bit of fueslage and tail survived as shown in pictures. Good pilot and lots of luck. Big John That is sad, I looked over that plane at OSH and he had a very nice auto engine installation too. Glad all are ok....... Ben www.haaspowerair.com |
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What type aircraft?
"Big John" wrote in message ... Extracted from Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct 2007. The small home-built plane that uses a Chevrolet car engine was featured last month on the cover of Contact, a magazine that spotlights experimental aircraft. On Thursday night, Bud Warren, of Conroe,TX, was flying his creation to the West Houston Airport. He was to give a presentation to the EAA group on his invention that regulates how fast the chevy engine turns a propeller. With years of experience as a pilot in Houston air shows, soaring in formation with replicas of historical aircraft used in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora and as a National Hot Rod Association race car builder -- showing off the plane he'd flown since 2003. But then, a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered. A ground observer said the engine was coughing and sputtering like a lawn mower engine does. Soon, he and his two passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank. Billowing flames were licking the outside of the craft as the three jumped out the plane's door to the ground -- and 45 seconds later the entire cockpit was engulfed. Buds daughter said "Nobody believed that we walked away". Bud had the back of his calves, some hair and his fingers singed slightly. All had a few bumps and scratches. The plane was valued at $150.000. Bud believed an oil line must have ruptured as they smelled oil burning right before the problems began. Bud isn't going to let the accident set him back and is already talking about building another plane and getting back in sky. End of extract Pictures with article in paper showed everything (including wings) burned down to nothing from just behind the trailing edge of wing forward. Only rear bit of fueslage and tail survived as shown in pictures. Good pilot and lots of luck. Big John |
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Kyle
Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild guess. Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know. Big John ************************************************** **********8 On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:39:10 -0400, "Kyle Boatright" wrote: What type aircraft? "Big John" wrote in message .. . Extracted from Houston Chronicle, 19 Oct 2007. The small home-built plane that uses a Chevrolet car engine was featured last month on the cover of Contact, a magazine that spotlights experimental aircraft. On Thursday night, Bud Warren, of Conroe,TX, was flying his creation to the West Houston Airport. He was to give a presentation to the EAA group on his invention that regulates how fast the chevy engine turns a propeller. With years of experience as a pilot in Houston air shows, soaring in formation with replicas of historical aircraft used in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora and as a National Hot Rod Association race car builder -- showing off the plane he'd flown since 2003. But then, a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered. A ground observer said the engine was coughing and sputtering like a lawn mower engine does. Soon, he and his two passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank. Billowing flames were licking the outside of the craft as the three jumped out the plane's door to the ground -- and 45 seconds later the entire cockpit was engulfed. Buds daughter said "Nobody believed that we walked away". Bud had the back of his calves, some hair and his fingers singed slightly. All had a few bumps and scratches. The plane was valued at $150.000. Bud believed an oil line must have ruptured as they smelled oil burning right before the problems began. Bud isn't going to let the accident set him back and is already talking about building another plane and getting back in sky. End of extract Pictures with article in paper showed everything (including wings) burned down to nothing from just behind the trailing edge of wing forward. Only rear bit of fueslage and tail survived as shown in pictures. Good pilot and lots of luck. Big John |
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("Big John" wrote)
Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild guess. Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know. http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg Cover Pictu CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 http://www.contactmagazine.com/backissu.html CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 "Chevy Powered Wheeler Express." Bud Warren of Geared Drives introduces us to his geared redrive, as proven with his beautifully crafted Wheeler Express. Former CONTACT! Magazine editor and publisher Mick Myal found this story for us at SnF 2007 and through a collaborative effort with Bud's daughter Phyllis Ridings-Murawski, they bring us this article. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=901RC&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind .y=0 N-Number (from the picture) http://www.ezchair.com/photo.htm Pics of a different Wheeler Express http://www.sierratel.com/jerico/Expr...%20Article.pdf VERY GOOD pdf article Montblack |
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Monty
Tnx for the posting. Will give group who reads a feel for the Express. The pitch down with full rudder deflection during flight test I never ran into in any airplane I flew in my thousands of hours. Would be kind of scary if at low altitude where you could not trade altitude to regain air speed and control. You could get into that condition in a large angle slip and crash on final ( I didn't see if the new larger tail assy fully cured the blanking problem. Big John ************************************************** ** On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:43:44 -0500, "Montblack" wrote: ("Big John" wrote) Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild guess. Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know. http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg Cover Pictu CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 http://www.contactmagazine.com/backissu.html CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 "Chevy Powered Wheeler Express." Bud Warren of Geared Drives introduces us to his geared redrive, as proven with his beautifully crafted Wheeler Express. Former CONTACT! Magazine editor and publisher Mick Myal found this story for us at SnF 2007 and through a collaborative effort with Bud's daughter Phyllis Ridings-Murawski, they bring us this article. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=901RC&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind .y=0 N-Number (from the picture) http://www.ezchair.com/photo.htm Pics of a different Wheeler Express http://www.sierratel.com/jerico/Expr...%20Article.pdf VERY GOOD pdf article Montblack |
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Nobody believed that we walked away
The poor ol Wheeler Express just keeps crashing...
There I very few aircraft designs that I absolutely will not fly in, however the Wheeler is one of them... Bad karma... denny |
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Denny wrote:
The poor ol Wheeler Express just keeps crashing... There I very few aircraft designs that I absolutely will not fly in, however the Wheeler is one of them... Bad karma... denny Not. It's an honest and unforgiving high performance machine flown by people who simply don't have the skills. |
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Nobody believed that we walked away
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:27:47 -0500, Big John wrote:
Monty Tnx for the posting. Will give group who reads a feel for the Express. The pitch down with full rudder deflection during flight test I never ran into in any airplane I flew in my thousands of hours. Would be kind of scary if at low altitude where you could not trade altitude to regain air speed and control. You could get into that condition in a large angle slip and crash on final ( I didn't see if the new larger tail assy fully cured the blanking problem. Big John ************************************************** ** On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 23:43:44 -0500, "Montblack" wrote: ("Big John" wrote) Didn't say in paper. Not enough in pictures for me to make a wild guess. Maybe someone else on Group knows and will post? Paper said it was featured in the 'Contact' Magazine and they should know. http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg Cover Pictu CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 http://www.contactmagazine.com/backissu.html CONTACT! (ISSUE 89) Mailed July 19, 2007 "Chevy Powered Wheeler Express." Bud Warren of Geared Drives introduces us to his geared redrive, as proven with his beautifully crafted Wheeler Express. Former CONTACT! Magazine editor and publisher Mick Myal found this story for us at SnF 2007 and through a collaborative effort with Bud's daughter Phyllis Ridings-Murawski, they bring us this article. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNumSQL.asp?NNumbertxt=901RC&cmndfind.x=0&cmndfind .y=0 N-Number (from the picture) http://www.ezchair.com/photo.htm Pics of a different Wheeler Express http://www.sierratel.com/jerico/Expr...%20Article.pdf VERY GOOD pdf article Montblack From the article: "...a short time after take-off and enroute, he noticed the oil temp rise slightly and the engine sputtered...Soon, he and his two passengers were forced to make an emergency landing in a hay field with the plane ablaze and clipped a fence post rupturing a wing fuel tank." Let me see if I have this right. Airplane with a highly experimental engine config has an engine failure and the engine is on fire. Airplane lands in field and clips a fence and some how it's that bad old Wheeler's fault. -- Joe Chisolm Marble Falls, TX |
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"Montblack" wrote:
http://www.contactmagazine.com/Issue89/Issue_89a.jpg Talked to him at Oshkosh, glad they are okay... |
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