At 01:07 PM 11/10/95 -0600, you wrote: >Quoting from today's AP newswire: > >+----- > But Tuesday, only seconds after he took off from Watsonville >Airport, something went wrong. The engine seized up, white smoke poured out >and the propeller stopped. The pilot tried desperately to loop back to the >runway but lost altitude too quickly. The little two-seater crashed through >a picket fence, slid down a hill and flipped over, smashing into the back >of Inez Tucker's barn and bursting into a ball of flame... >+----- > >Imagine, working 18 years on this project only to have the engine seize on >the first trial run. What a sad tale. Wonder what happened... > >-Mark McCulley > > He probably took the thermostat/cooling tin off of the engine. RIP __\/__ . / ^ _ \ . |\| (*)(*) |/| ________.OOOo____oo____oOOO.__________ / Bob Johnson - Programmer \ | rjohnson@zeus.nesea2400.navy.mil | | Tracor ESD -- California, MD | | zaphod@atc.ameritel.net | \___________________Oooo.______________/ .oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)
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