Ok, believe it or not!!! I only had outboard wing tanks (no header tank) in my first KR N886MJ. Corvair engine with an Ellison. I totally lost both fuel pumps due to a broken ground wire. I was at maybe 200 feet because I was buzzing my brother in law’s house. Oh yea, 13 miles from the airport!!! And one mile from the interstate that passes right by the airport. I gave it full throttle and the engine kept running. Yes I did try all secondary options to no avail. RPM was fluctuating around 1500. The Ellison was creating enough suction to keep the engine running. I was maintaining altitude and actually slightly climbing. Straight to the interstate and followed it to the airport. Landed safely. I wouldn’t want to do that again!!!
Mark Jones Oldsmar, Fl N771MJ “WunderBird” www.flykr2s.com flyk...@gmail.com > On Nov 20, 2021, at 6:01 PM, Randall Smith via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> > wrote: > > I can tell you on my KR that if the engine quit the prop was not long enough > to keep the engine windmill. That's what put me in the lake one day. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Nov 20, 2021, at 12:59 PM, John Gotschall <johngotsch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> With regard to the statement starting with "Given your current lack of >> confidence in an engine restart in flight..... . ." >> >> I would like to say it's less that I have a lack of confidence in restart >> but rather I have high confidence, even certainty that all machines will at >> some point fail to fullfill their intended function. Maintenance can, but >> obviously does not always avoid the failure(s). >> >> "What can go wrong will..." >> >> I make repairs for a living. I am an component level electronics >> technician specializing in commercial food service equipment, which >> includes steam, gas and liquid fuel powered as well as electric powered, >> pneumatic and hydraulic machines using all manner of controls. Things fail >> all the time and so often it's amazing to me. How can so many things go >> wrong and all the time 24/7? >> >> People hire me to travel to their failed equipment and repair it every day >> all day. I am buried in failed equipment, none of which I designed or >> built. These machines are designed by engineers and tested by labs like UL >> and certified by NSF. Like the Boeing 737 the machines still fail >> regardless of manufacturing prowess or regulation. I have a two week >> backlog of failed machines. Often it is the machine manufacturer who calls >> me out to repair. >> . >> All I see every day all day is the aftermath of what went wrong and then >> then the remedy. In my employer's local office I am one of ten technicians >> and we are all buried. >> >> I am highly confident that all manner of machine fails will keep coming >> from all kinds of builders and often in groups, as they have every day >> since I started in electronics in 1980. >> >> If it is a machine it will fail. Maybe not while you are using it, but >> eventually.. One could retire the machine or part before it fails, but >> that's another failure mode. >> >> I have a high confidence fails are gonna happen. Often several in rapid >> succession. >> >> >> >> jg >> >> ps Just got off the phone with Dr. Pellerin, a well known lake amphib >> driver who, when I presented the idea of intentionally stopping the fire in >> a lake amphib motor in flight for practice said "Oh no.... no. no. no, not >> in a lake". I have to agree, there's already too much to go wrong let's >> not tempt fate. Ok, I did it in a C150, but that was a C150. >> ________________________________ >> -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 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/
