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Old 1st Jan 2007, 22:32
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maybe the tail mounted engine planes are easier to make safer in this situation...smaller vertical stab, smaller rudder...granted a little less efficient.

and as to the concept of a detailed analysis of what is wrong and how to fix it...what do we do in the meantime?
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I think Dr. Honey's work ( no highway) was on the amount of vibration prior to failure and it was affected by the temperature (balloon shed vs inflight in the tropics).

I think detailed analysis and a full understanding is vital...but again, we have seen one disaster, and seen a similiar problem, if not identical on a similiar type of plane (transat, cuba).

time to rethink pilot training, aircraft certification, structure of composites and the like.

remember folks, its been 5plus years. is this just waiting to happen again? just waiting for the right amount of rudder, wake, and X?
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