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5 minutes ago, carusoam said:

Fixed gear Mooneys are so safe...

The insurance companies pay you an annual payment...

:)

 

The nose wheel of the fixed gear Mooney is so strong... you get four bounces before the nose wheel collapses...

:)

 

If the gear on my fixed gear Mooney actually collapses... I would have to sneak into MS under an assumed name....

1) Everyone will know what happened...

2) Something would give me away...

3) It would take me a few posts to improve my disguise...

:)

PP thoughts only, my best attempts at comedy... clearly not a comedian...

Best regards,

-a-

Lets try to think out of the box to keep Mooney afloat as obviously what has transpired in the past hasn't worked MANY TIMES!

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45 minutes ago, Guillaume said:

For those interested, the french NTSB just published an investigation report on a Mooney nose gear collapse.

Improper maintenance lead to the failure.

 

 

For those who think the FAA and NTSB are slow, this Incident was in Nov. 2013; the report was published in June 2020.  :o  :blink:  Apparently someone used needle nose pliers to loosen and retighten the nuts on the landing gear actuation rod at the gearbox end . . . . Because it's so difficult to grab a wrench? Or because standard wrenches are difficult to find in France, the home the metric system?

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3 hours ago, kortopates said:

What a rare Monday morning wrt to the FAA incidents reports on Mooney's. Mooney has now gone 10 full days without a single incident report and as such Mooney didn't even make the list of over 40 different airframe company's.

Lets hope it continues!

So we DID run out of Mooneys? :lol:

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On 9/6/2020 at 7:41 PM, zaitcev said:

How comes you guys aren't discussing a disabled Mooney blocking the only remaining runway today in Austin, Texas (KAUS)? I saw a picture on FB with 9 airliners stuck on the taxiway. I would not be surprised if it's a gear-up landing.

I went flying today and it was rather uneventful. Checked the gear on base and final.

Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters.

 

-Robert

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13 hours ago, RobertGary1 said:

Wonder why. Here the airport manager has a tractor with a dozer on the front. He says if a GA plane is disabled on the runway he can just push it off. Can't stop the freighters.

Glad I'm not based wherever "here" is!!

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