Looks like it flipped on landing 🙁
Blue skies guys… RIP 🙁
By: John C - 24th July 2013 at 15:48
This was not far from my home – in fact I wondered why there were fire engines driving around apparently lost with blues and twos on as I headed home at 7pm that night.
RIP
By: Flying_Pencil - 16th July 2013 at 23:53
Tragic, RIP.
By: Moggy C - 16th July 2013 at 10:22
I personally wouldn’t get too hung-up on glide ratios. We used to joke that the PA22 I used to part own had a glide ratio of about 1:1 and there are many cases of pulling off a successful forced landing in that type.
Flying from E Anglia helps mind.
Moggy
By: topspeed - 16th July 2013 at 09:22
You could be right…original FK-9 had only 1:8.5 ratio but later MKIV 1:11; http://www.lightsportaircraft.ca/FK9MKIV/FK9-MKIV-specifications.html
Also Savannah seem to sport 1:12 glide ratio.
By: Moggy C - 16th July 2013 at 07:46
With a 9:1 glide ratio, a stall speed of just 31 knots and that strong, tubular structure you would think it might be pretty high on the list of aircraft in which a catastrophic engine failure at 2,000 ft is going to be survivable.
Sadly not in this case.
Moggy
By: topspeed - 16th July 2013 at 06:58
It’s a Rans S6
Moggy
It must have pretty poor glide ratio; http://rans.com/aircraft/kits/s-6es-coyote-2.html
I lost ex-girlfriend in the first ultralite crash 2013 of Finland early this spring. She was a well liked doctor. Hitherto no glue what caused that Eurocub Mark 1 accident. She and her husband burned beyond recognition. Weather was very turbulent.
RIP both of these couples.
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Edit; glide ratio is 9:1 ; http://www.pilotfriend.com/experimental/acft2/34.htm
I think it is less than average of these high wing ULs today ?
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Anybody know the glide ratio of a Eurocub Mk 1 ? http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58590/index.htm
By: Moggy C - 15th July 2013 at 22:47
It’s a Rans S6
Moggy
By: Newforest - 15th July 2013 at 19:33
RIP. Someone may recognize this tail.
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