Just a note on the Sakkie Halgreen crash. It was not in ZS-UKU but a different plane! UKU was not involved in a crash.
The plane Sakkie crashed in crashed due to a balance weight bolted to the prop hub coming off and breaking the prop. Due to the now rearward CG the plane entered a flat spin. Rudi > On 08 Nov 2021, at 03:20, MS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just got a note from a friend who knows the pilots and planes involved and > this is his comment. He's in the UK currently and the crash was in RSA so he > doesn't have anything more current that what he says here. > > "Yeah, knew Nevil well. He had an Extra and was doing well but I think hard > times forced him to sell and buy Garth Kopke’s GK1 (KR1 with Honda > motor).He’s been pushing it a bit hard. Borrowed Dickie’s KR and pulled the > wings off doing Aeros" > Sakkie's plane ZS-UKU had crashed in a flat spin and killed Sakkie and a > passenger sometime prior to my arrival in SA in 1990. The photo shown in the > previous issue of KRNET ostensibly shows a broken spar under the seat. A > plane coming down flat, hard enough to kill the passengers, could likely have > damaged the spar and if it hadn't been strengthened correctly, could have > been a weak spot. Normally that section of spar is the strongest so for it > to break indicates an inadequate repair . . .agree?. Also, as John says > above, the pilot (Nevil) was an Extra pilot and was accustomed to pulling > strong aerobatic loads but even so . . . . Ken Cottle has spec'ed my KR-1½ at > +9 and -7. A person would black out before ever getting close to those > loads. > > I think when the dust settles we'll discover a spar that had not been > re-built or repaired correctly following the flat-spin crash. > > Mike StirewaltKSEE > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
