screaming down the hill......for those that know the song! Sorry I missed
you...you must have known I was coming to town and ran away the day before!!
Had time to go thru all the pictures from your's and Walter's trip North
though and all looked great except that puddle of Dextron III on your floor!
The tip was great.... even though we did get the news on the Friday after
visiting with Walter that Howard rode off "Pocket Change"..his (our)
beautiful Rebel on Amphibs in Penetanguishene Harbour. I have yet to talk to
him, but the stomach turner is in the hanger and my son helped him get it
home (via wing remove and trailers). Apparently felt some vibration and
panic landed at about 125MPH into 3 foot swells. Amazing home much damage
water can do at that speed. Floats are a right off..buckled and torn apart
and would take more labour to repair than the cost of a set of prebuilts.
Fuselage is totally destoyed from the rear float attach to the nose bowl.
Not even sure how the engine stayed on.
The one thing I do know is my double row of rivets up the door post is a
great fix and not one of them sheared. If they had of let go and had the
firewall not had my reinforcing plates on it the outcome might have been
much worse and I suspect the engine would have made it off and they would
have cartwheeled the airplane. (although I am amazed they didn't flip as it
was and Howard and his daughter exited unscathed) Unfortunately every thing
else sheared or ripped including bending the door post carrythru tubes at
exactly where the FUS-11's meet the top wrap and FUS-9's. Cabin in now about
2 " shorter than the door height. Outer cabin floor to tailcone transition
sheared EVERY rivet and the cabin floor has a 3" joggle behind the main
lower carrythru tubes. Amazing thing is all the attach gear, struts, cables
etc held up to this even though the float bottoms are pushed in a good 6"
from the forward bulkhead to the step area. On one the float is buckled at
the step and the step bottom is blown apart at the rear step bulkhead.
I'll pass around a few pictures when I get the stomach to downsize them.
Cheers,
Wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: <Legeorgen@aol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: round engine rebel / factory tour / Wayne's boring adventure!
GladWelcome back Wayne. It sounds like you had a close call with the brakes.
it all turned out fine and sounds like you all enjoyed yourselves.
Bruce
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