Originally Posted by
On eyre
Ijut �� - accident looking for a place to happen
Nah, the man is clearly no idiot. In fact probably a whole lot smarter and skilled than most who dabble in home built and experimental aircraft.
His mistake was probably choice of airframe to use as a test bed, knowing full well its undesirable handling characteristics. My choice would have been a modified Sonex - which has already successfully flown with a single jet engine and is about the easiest to fly taildragger ever. But he must have had his reasons for that choice.
Because of the engines being located on the fuselage sides of the Quickie, the flame-out may have been due to airflow blanketing in the crosswind.
If it were not for risks taken by test pilots ever since the Wright Brothers, we would still be earth-bound..