If this is the crash I'm thinking of, the NTSB contacted me with questions about the aircraft. I was told it had a lycoming 360 stuffed in it.
Steve Glover Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 25, 2014, at 23:41, Mike T via KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> wrote: > > I agree with DJ, and I think other kitplane makers do too. Recently the > designer of the CX4 (an aluminum single-seat design about 10 years old), > discovered the cable attachment method on the rudder was causing fatigue > cracks in the rudder cables of his prototype. So he redesigned the part > and emailed it as a "MANDATORY DESIGN CHANGE" in big letters to all > registered builders. Larger kitplane makers like RV make similar > improvements in their plans all the time. > > According to some KR-Net posts, Neil Bingham's design review talking about > the unsafe aft CG limit appeared in Sport Aviation in 1986 and also in the > KR Newsletter. Even if Rand-Robinson claimed they never heard of Sport > Aviation, they can hardly claim they didn't know about the Newsletter > because they occasionally made contributions to it. > > So if the family of the dead pilot in this tragedy wanted to sue > Rand-Robinson, they could say Jeanette Rand found out 27 years earlier that > the aft CG limit in the plans was an error that could kill people, but RR > never bothered to change the plans or even mention the problem. > > I'm not saying I'm worried about this. The family probably doesn't want to > sue, and if they did they'd have to prove that the original builder didn't > vary from the plans in this area, which would be tricky. But if they got a > good lawyer, he'd kept telling the jury "twenty-seven YEARS > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Dj Merrill via KRnet <krnet at > list.krnet.org> > wrote: > >>> On 09/25/2014 02:32 PM, Sid Wood via KRnet wrote: >>> The principle that will be invoked is: You new something was wrong with >>> your design because you made a change. Therefore, you are now admitting >>> to some liability and must pay for your mistake(s). >> >> The flip side to this is that you knew that something was wrong with >> your design, and you didn't release an update therefore you were >> endangering everyone using your faulty design. Better to own up and >> release an update for free rather than take the chance on getting sued >> if/when people start getting hurt. >> >> -Dj >> >> -- >> Dj Merrill - N1JOV - VP EAA Chapter 87 >> Sportsman 2+2 Builder #7118 N421DJ - http://deej.net/sportsman/ >> Glastar Flyer N866RH - http://deej.net/glastar/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. >> To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org >> please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >> see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change >> options > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
