GeeBee

Just because you see no wall does not mean there is no writing.

Only because airlines the first to show supplychain issues with high level manufacturing which is what is required tobuild a TEL plant

How much of the piston fleet is actually involved in air carrier operations. Very little. We are an ant on the butt of an elephant. My point about the airlines is even if you fast tracked TEL production getting a plant up and running with all the labor, material and manufacturing shortages it is unlikely anything would happen fast. Look up when the last new refinery was built. A friend of mine cannot find titanium right now at any pricr. All prodois committed. Airlined rigjt now have brand new airplanes sitting around for lack of spares and are pulling old airplanes out of the desert

I think in an age where the average age of the airline’s airplanes have increased by 1.5 years due to supply chain issues for parts, Russia is embargoed, China is on the precipice of inciting a Pacific war that idea is on the order of FBO’s carrying two lines of Avgas. PFF.

TEL is not even produced here.

Unlikely. Certainly not before an entire supply disruption of 100LL would occur. The environmental permits dealing with lead an leaded products is huge. That is why in large part there are only a few battery manufacturers.

I checked my Ovation today. Fuel filler neck to: Nose gear...continuity Tie Down Ring...continuity Engine baffle....continuity Exhaust....No continuity. Checked the Ohms....resistance off the scale.

All I can do is report to you what the top people in the tank sealing business reported to me.

With regard to applying sealant before assembly and riveting Mooney did that in later models then abandoned the method. As it was explained to me by WetWingolists, to do this assembly method requires precision riveting. This is because simply "gooping" the pieces and riveting results in the sealant being pushed out or being too thin. There has to be a precise gap for the sealant to reside within. Simply put, the Mooney factory did not have such precision equipment nor was it economical to purchase such equipment so they returned to the old method. I am told they paid for a lot of reseals using the old method on these aircraft.

That is some really poor decision making.

The thread warranted an AVWeb article this morning and Mooneyspace.com was linked. It might be the server was getting over ran or someone got scared. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/mooney-operators-report-leakage-paint-issues-after-using-g100ul/

Must be all city slickers at KLM. Everyone knows pigs stink, pig farms really stink and to put one in the air with paying passengers, well we know how that is going to work out. The smell is certainly predictable but the A/C packs must have been at max load too. Good thing it was a new airplane with all electric high efficiency packs. I know one thing, I would have never accepted the load to start with. https://www.yahoo.com/news/smell-100-pigs-hold-pushed-111129588.html

Still have not heard how old is the tank sealant in these aircraft.

A lot of St. Elmo's off the prop at night would confirm it.