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Last Saturday I invited a group of friends to a fly in my runway.
Eight planes initiated the flight from their local club located 80 miles up north. We had plans to have lunch together at a famous local restaurant, and  fly the Minimax with them for a while on the way back.
Several kind of planes were involved  in the raid as you can see. I was the only person at the field to welcome the visitors and arrange the planes on the ground.
Two incidents made the event not as pleasant as we wished. First, an Excalibur broke the main axle in the middle of the runway after he did a nice landing, old problems  pay their toll, but the worst incident was for  an Avid flier that had an engine failure and had to do a force landing in mud field and  ended up doing a nose over. No problems for the pilot though.
The accident was big enough for the local authorities, the media, the fire department, etc.
I drove to the accident area to help my friend.
In the video I appear wearing a light blue shirt , my Minimax cap and jeans.

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I just want to let everyone know that I had nothing to do with THAT wheels-up landing. I was in or about hull, Texas, U.S. Of A. I didn't do it this time.  

Hope it's back in the air before too long.

HEY....ALL care no responsibility....its a real shame that this happened of coarse....it comes back to the P.I.C....sadly.....not the organizer.

I hope the aircraft owners sort out the issues quickly and get flying soon

best wishes

regards Arthur

Thats too bad Ricardo, but its not your fault. I hope you will have some good events after this time. I ve seen similar cases, thanks God this one is not fatal. Two kitfox accident happened. One time the owner forgot to open the fuel tap, and it was enough to warm and a partial takeoff, ended up in a wine yard  straight after takeoff with concrete poles (survived) , the other one made a low 180 after takeoff with a brand new 582 engine doing idle descend touch and goes and the engine seized (fatal).
Nose wheel is not an advantage on soft soil.
So he is lucky and I wish him all the best to get back on horse as soon as he can.

Quoted from Sterling Silver I just want to let everyone know that I had nothing to do with THAT wheels-up landing. I was in or about hull, Texas, U.S. Of A. I didn't do it this time.  

Hope it's back in the air before too long.

The Avid  had a brand new HKS engine, it appears to have not enough power for that plane.
The pilot was flying solo at the time and  the problem seemed to be  electric.

How unfortunate Ricardo. Those incidents were no fault of yours, and very sad for the involved pilots. I can relate to both of them, a broken axle and flipping over---been there done that. Lots of repair and grief with the FAA for the Avid pilot. What is your equivalent of our FAA or do you operate under the same rules? My tip-over was determined to be an accident requiring filling out an 8-page report and having them do a safety follow-up once everything was fixed.

Glad no one was hurt, thank goodness for our low-inertia planes.

Next week I will be in Oshkosh, anyone else planning on being there?

Paul Fiebich

The Excaliber is a copy of the Quad City Challenger.
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Quoted from Ricardo

The Avid  had a brand new HKS engine, it appears to have not enough power for that plane.
The pilot was flying solo at the time and  the problem seemed to be  electric.

You are trying to scare me out of my engine, aren't you.  

I had an electrical problem with an early ultralight CDI. The engine quit when one wire came off the toggle switch. The wire came off because a screw vibrated loose and fell out.
A CDI must have a ground to provide a spark. A magneto is live if the ground is lost. I realize that you know that. I'm just restating the safety factor built into an aircraft magneto.
I'm for electronic ignition.

The problem this guy had was with the push to talk switch every time he pushed the bottom the engine backfired , he decided mo to use it but a few miniutes early the engine just died. It was a wrong electric  wiring I guess.

I installled a CB in my plane and when I keyed the mike, the engine quit and when I let go of the mike button the engine would run again. I moved the antenna to the extreme rear of the plane and it only made the engine miss a little, I discontinued the CB.......

I hardly can imagine that except if the ignition kill wire is common with the ptt which also needs ground as I recall it. But having such a big interference on RF to cause trouble in ignition its just unbelievable unless its a very sophisticated, unshielded electronics behind it.

TTT, you are showing your age  

Oh Lord, Here comes the Bandit!

Quoted from TreeTopsTom BREAKER BREAKER GOOD BUDDY. WAS THAT YOU THAT JUST FLEW ON BY ME NEAR THE CHOKE & PUKE( HARLY'MISS"AH"GEAR).
BE CAREFUL ON BACK DOWN THE ROAD AH WAYS. YA'LL GOT SOME FEDERAL TYPES DOWN THERE CHECKING PAPERS & WEIGHT.
CATCH YA ON THE FLIP FLOP THERE GOOD BUDDY. I'M GONE!

You know, TT Tom, I'd have known that was you just from reading the post!!  How you doing, old friend??  Been a long time.
Claude