REFLECTOR: Failed RSA Bendix Fuel Servo

[Ron Brown]

Yes, a 173 Elite RG with Catto prop.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Michalk" <michalk at awpi.com>
To: "Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list" <reflector at tvbf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Failed RSA Bendix Fuel Servo


> 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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