Was Walton flying a two seater Hawk or single seater? Someone at our ultralight meeting tonight said the tail came off before he lost control. Has anyone...
Subject: RE: UL: The Walton Hawk Arrow Crash. Rob It was an Arrow II two seater. I 'm working with the NTSB right now so I'm not at liberty to speculate on...
Chuck Slusarczyk
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Jul 1, 2005 10:45 am
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Thanks Steve ,I'll call ya today to discuss Oshkosh. See ya Chuck S...
Chuck Slusarczyk
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Jul 1, 2005 10:59 am
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... Ain't that the truth!! As a gun owner as well I see the anti gun bias all the time in the media. One story about the media I always tell is how the media...
Chuck Slusarczyk
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Jul 1, 2005 11:13 am
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... of ... This is somewhere along the lines of what I'm starting to believe. The position of the crash relative to final approach seems to indicate a stall...
Very true, Mike. Unfortunately, it started as updates to Part 103.... Sport Pilot will be a very good thing for a lot of people. The shame is single seat...
Jerry Pridemore wrote: " As the crash suppposedly happend after takeoff, I doubt a chute would have been much use, due to inadequate altitude for deployment. A...
... It's a "shame" that single seat UL pilots are included in the large number of prople who will be getting a "very good thing"? Why is it a shame for them? ...
You know, now that I think about it, someone probably saw the picture of the crash on the news and didn't see anything that resembled a tail, so the assumption...
The FAA needed to cure what it considered three failed programs. 1. Failed FAR103, with out of control illegal pilots and aircraft. 2. Failed recreational...
... by the public. ... manufactures due to excessive costs. ... I'd place my bet if I was a bettin' man on sprot just adding to the list of failed programs, ...
... takeoff, I ... is na ... altitude ... BRS to ... pilot ... to begin ... think ... nothin' bad ... first BRS ... him for ... the ... from it. ... traveling ...
... No Dave. That might be what YOU (an individual) want, but not what WE (the flying community) want. WE want different things for different reasons. But that...
Gang, I'm really concerned about what all this could do to CGS and our sport, so I've been studying all the pictures I can find, enhancing them as well as I...
... From what seems to be the case so far, the main rot in SP at the current time is with the planes....... the ELSA/SLSA categories in particular....... So...
... ******************************************** Chuck Responds - These aircraft, being capable of 135 mph.....faster and slicker than most G.A. training spam...
... So hardware fails and that makes a chute a necessary item. With your logic then, I'd get two chutes, no, three ,,,,,, I mean four,,,,,,,,,, oh no...
... Hey ricky, you are at it again,,,,,,,,,, taking on the world of ultralighters with your constant BS arguements,,,,,,,,,,, just go back to your GA world and...
... ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, I bet that a few of us that really care could write a scathing report on the likely success of sprot,,,,,,,,,and...
You seem to be all getting your panties bunched up about the fact that Walton was not a BFI. Although that flight was supposed to be made with some kind of...
... wrote:> ... ***************************************************** Chuck Responds- There is no doubt about it.........That Sport Pilot program was a ...
Steve B., I think in the end, the Hawk will be found not to be the cause of the accident. The ignorant people who listen to our sometimes ignorant press will...