I KNOW someone will correct me if i'm wrong...I know the FAA would...I had a forney come into the shop for an annuat...fine, however it had rag wings.....forney didn't make rag wings...it had been annualled for the last 9x with the rags...however, before I had a chance to even run it into the shop, the FAA came out with thier "were here to help you, line checks" , saw the forney, asked me about it, and I shut up, and told them there was the n-number, find out yourself...they did, and grounded the coupe then and there, and took all the A&P-IA's tickets the approved the airplane for annual....as far as I know, the aircraft is STILL grounded...that was 8 years ago...sever years later, just for kicks & giggles, I went to the FAA and asked for a stc for such a mod, and the FAA politly told me not only NO, but HELL NO!...so who is right?....THIS should cause some comment!...jolly in aurora, or.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ask yourself did god give birds aluminum feathers? > NO. > Yes you can put rag wings on an ALON A-2 it's a very easy bolt on STC'd fix > and unfortunately the plane that did it also had an owner, a dear firiend try > to do rolls in it. We (me and the FAA) looked at and drilled out nearly very > every rivet in the wings, they were'nt at fault. One had a outer wing panel > fail at an estimated perhaps 200+ mph and then entered an inverterted 80 > degree down angle at perhaps 240+ mph. Although both wings were still > bolted on and the controls basically functional nothing was really salvagable > from them at those terminal speeds. > > My point is there was no reason to reconsider the approval for rag wings on > the alon ariframe and the C-85 engine Joe had chosen to put on the Alon frame > as well./tom
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