REFLECTOR: Failed RSA Bendix Fuel Servo

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Hello
What was his glide speed to reach the airport?
Barry
 
 

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From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Brown
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 12:04 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: Failed RSA Bendix Fuel Servo


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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