Unfortunately the fatal accident and I am very sorry in person. So it is not a KR2? Condolences, Shahar
Il Lun 8 Nov 2021, 03:59 Rudi Venter <venter...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Just a note on the Sakkie Halgreen crash. It was not in ZS-UKU but a > different plane! UKU was not involved in a crash. > > The plane Sakkie crashed in crashed due to a balance weight bolted to the > prop hub coming off and breaking the prop. Due to the now rearward CG the > plane entered a flat spin. > > Rudi > > > > On 08 Nov 2021, at 03:20, MS <propbala...@att.net> wrote: > > > > Just got a note from a friend who knows the pilots and planes involved > and this is his comment. He's in the UK currently and the crash was in RSA > so he doesn't have anything more current that what he says here. > > > > "Yeah, knew Nevil well. He had an Extra and was doing well but I think > hard times forced him to sell and buy Garth Kopke’s GK1 (KR1 with Honda > motor).He’s been pushing it a bit hard. Borrowed Dickie’s KR and pulled the > wings off doing Aeros" > > Sakkie's plane ZS-UKU had crashed in a flat spin and killed Sakkie and a > passenger sometime prior to my arrival in SA in 1990. The photo shown in > the previous issue of KRNET ostensibly shows a broken spar under the seat. > A plane coming down flat, hard enough to kill the passengers, could likely > have damaged the spar and if it hadn't been strengthened correctly, could > have been a weak spot. Normally that section of spar is the strongest so > for it to break indicates an inadequate repair . . .agree?. Also, as John > says above, the pilot (Nevil) was an Extra pilot and was accustomed to > pulling strong aerobatic loads but even so . . . . Ken Cottle has spec'ed > my KR-1½ at +9 and -7. A person would black out before ever getting close > to those loads. > > > > I think when the dust settles we'll discover a spar that had not been > re-built or repaired correctly following the flat-spin crash. > > > > Mike StirewaltKSEE > > ________________________________ > > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > > -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
