Thanks Larry for looking it up. Steve told me it had been wrecked by whoever he had sold it to. The following NTSB report indicates the accident was in April 1990 at Blytheville, Arkansas, apparently on an Eaker AFB runway.
>From the NTSB: WHILE MAKING A FULL POWER GROUND RUN IN HIS NEWLY ACQUIRED TAIL WHEEL CONFIGURED HOMEBUILT AIRPLANE, WITH THE STICK IN THE FULL AFT POSITION, THE PILOT EXPERIENCED AN IMMEDIATE ABRUPT CLIMB TO ABOUT 50 FEET AGL. THE AIRPLANE THEN STALLED AND DESCENDED UNCONTROLLED TO THE TERRAIN. THIS WAS THE PILOT'S FIRST FLIGHT IN THE AIRPLANE AND GUSTY CROSSWIND CONDITIONS EXISTED. THE PILOT STATED THAT HE WAS CONCENTRATING ON DIRECTIONAL CONTROL WITH THE RUDDER, AND WAS NOT AWARE THAT THE STICK WAS FULL AFT. The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident as follows: IMPROPER HANDLING OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING A HIGH SPEED TAXI. My first KR (picture attached) was also wrecked in 1990 by the fellow I'd sold it to. It was a victim, as was Steve's, of yet another idiotic "high speed taxi text". He ran it off the end of a 4500 ft. runway at Rialto. I don't have enough words to describe just how stupid it is to run an aircraft, especially a taildragger, down a runway a high speed unless one is landing or taking off. Here's a link to the KR newsletter that has Steve's flight report on this plane. http://www.bouyea.net/newsletters/singlefiles/Issue045-Mar1979.pdf Mike KSEE ____________________________________________________________ Man, 63, Avoids Wrinkles 63 Yr Old Man Shares Simple DIY Skin Tightening Method He Uses At Home http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/54cff3585e6b473586704st04vuc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: borrego.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 81531 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150202/05169bf6/attachment.jpg>
