I echo what Dan Heath said.
This latest post of Colin's prompted me to go back to the beginning of
his blog and read about his departure from his home base in the Lake
District, then on to Wicks, Scotland and then on to Iceland. Believe me
I'm going to continue reading the rest of it but that's as far as I got
last night. It's really great reading. He took a huge amount of time to
write of his experiences and I'm sure glad he did.
On his leg from Wicks to Iceland he was less than 300 feet above the
waves and flying in fog and came within a hair of hitting the cliffs that
jut up out of the sea. He came extremely close to ending his journey
right there.
Earlier that day, when doing a run-up before taking off from Wicks to
head out over the open ocean to Iceland, he found one dead mag. The
rotor arm had broken. There were some bogus parts being sold for the
Jabiru at that time and Colin had picked up a couple of the bad ones -
direct from the Jabiru distributor. The other mag had a rotor arm on
the verge of failing in the same way as the first one. If he hadn't
caught the mag issues on his run-up, Colin would have come down in the
North Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland. He might have been rescued
if they had gotten there quick enough, but it would have been the end of
Itzy and the great blog he created for us to enjoy.
These rotor arms are another example of how an extremely simple little
thing turns out to be "life or death critical" in importance. A
counterfeit part, an unreachable fuel tank switching valve, a little
piece of exposed wire where insulation has worn through - examples are
endless. What could be simpler than an O-ring? With Challenger, the
O-ring seal wasn't a bogus part nor was it defective . . . it just got a
little too cold and brittle.
Regarding our KR's, Colin's experience demonstrates how excellent it is
to have electronic ignition in addition to the magneto. Please take note
- you guys involved in engine choices and configurations.
http://kr2worldtour.blogspot.com/
Mike Stirewalt
KSEE
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