On 12/21/2020 9:30 AM, Mark Langford via KRnet wrote:
And we lost a KR pilot to an inflight fire that was thought to be a
fuel leak from a cockpit mounted header tank. First or second flight
of the aircraft, as I recall.
I wrote:
> And we lost a KR pilot to an inflight fire that was thought to be a fuel
> leak from a cockpit mounted header tank.
Maybe a fuel leak, maybe not. It's also possible it started in the
engine compartment and spread to the interior, judging by the length of
the spread.
See https://pl
My aircraft (Taylor-monoplane) is limited to 6 gallons of fuel in the
header tank per print and without a wing tank the flight time is very
limited. I plan on putting cylinder type tanks behind the front spar in my
Diehl wings and my header tank holds only 3.6 gallons. Any aircraft fuel
supply shou
And we lost a KR pilot to an inflight fire that was thought to be a fuel
leak from a cockpit mounted header tank. First or second flight of the
aircraft, as I recall.
Mark Langford
m...@n56ml.com
http://www.n56ml.com
Huntsville, AL
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If you've ever seen a post-crash fire kill someone, or if you have ever
lost friends or family in a post-crash fire, or if you even smelled
smoke in the cockpit, you might have an idea why some people regard fuel
in the wings as safer than a fuel tank in the fuselage. I saw it happen
right in f
On 12/20/2020 4:10 PM, colin hales via KRnet wrote:
When I flew for 10 hours and 1,050 nautical miles through Russia,
CH.
Colin,
Good to hear from you. Are you building / re-building, flying , not
flying? Future plans?
Several
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