I normally don't stir things up on mailing lists, but am I the only one that is offended by this very blatant use of someone's tragic death only five days ago to advertise a service? The early reports of the crash that I have seen so far don't even hint at a flutter problem. This comes from a mailing list from Martin Hollmann,s company.
Very sad to hear of this crash. I have been following the progress on that plane for a while and it was one of the most beautiful planes I have ever see. James Wright obviously poured his heart and soul into it and it is a shame to see him and the plane gone. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Aviation News List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:54:56 -0700 From: Aircraft Designs, Inc. <aircr...@mbay.net> Reply-To: <16172-feedback...@lb.bcentral.com> To: List Member <eng...@earthlink.net> NEWS RELEASE 2.4 August 2003 Aircraft Designs, Inc. Hughes H-1B Racer crash could most likely have been avoided. It is with great sadness that I heard about the death of James Wright, a tall and friendly aviator who I had gotten to know. He crashed on August 4th in his H-1B Racer on the way back from Oshkosh. I had talked to Jim many times about performing a flutter analysis on his racer and he was very interested. The aircraft had heavy, fabric covered control surfaces which were not mass balanced and it would have been very prudent to find out what the critical flutter speed is. When I did not hear from Jim, I had a terrible feeling that he would die in his beautiful aircraft. In retrospect, the $4,000 that I charge to perform this valuable service would have been worth it. For more information see www.wrightools.com/hughes/ <http://www.wrightools.com/hughes/>
