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4 Bagger
Simulating passenger weight. 4 bags of salt @40lbs apiece.
Flew fine.
My wife weighs between 3 bags and 4 bags.....
Albums: Phase 1 Testing
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Comment by Richard Rost on June 16, 2013 at 10:12am
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Patrick
Glad everything went ok. This kind of testing makes me real nervous. I lost a good friend when he did the same type of testing for a pax in his KR-2. From what we could tell from picking up the wreckage one of the bags shifted some how causing the canopy to depart the aircraft. He tried a forced landing in a bean field. Aircraft cartwheeled and you can guess the rest. Again glad your ok, but most of us from my old EAA chapter decided that we needed to get a person to to serve as ballast after we flew off the 40.
Rich
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