REFLECTOR: Failed RSA Bendix Fuel Servo

[Brian Michalk]

Which flavor of Velocity?  RG?

Ron Brown wrote:
> As I mentioned last week, the new owner of my Velocity had the engine 
> go real quiet while at 10,500 feet and 28 miles east of Birmingham, 
> Alabama while he was flying back home to Texas.
>  
> He declared an emergency and got vectors to land at Birmingham 
> International.  When he got within the vicinity of the airport he had 
> too much altitude (GREAT gliders those Velocities!!!).  He made a safe 
> landing and was greeted by a host of emergency vehicles.
>  
> His mechanic determined that the Bendix fuel servo was not delivering 
> fuel.  He pulled it off and shipped it to Airflow Performance.  Don 
> and Kyle determined that the nut holding the diaphragm had fallen 
> off.  They checked the torque of the nut and found it was only 1 in oz 
> which probably led to it falling off after 370 hours of operation.
>  
> Don said he had never seen this happen before.  He guessed that who 
> ever had rebuilt the fuel servo had reused this nut and should have 
> replaced it with a new one.
>  
> Luckily, the new buyer used his emergency training very well and my 
> dearly departed Velocity is still in great shape and will soon be 
> flying again.  And he will be flying with a newly overhauled fuel 
> servo built by Airflow Performance (the folks that know what they are 
> doing!!!! - and highly recommended by me!)
>  
> Ronnie Brown  
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