sounds great to me, Ryan - thanks for your work.
I'll post the raffle link, maybe it will result in some ticket sales even tho it might dilute my chances!

a couple of questions;

Is it ok to post this (https://www.lancair-raffle.com/) on other aviation forums?

I presume the raffle is to benefit LOBO?

Thanks

Thanks Gordon; plenty of time to clear hangar space!

I don’t see the date, I’m ready to take possession
Paging Matthew Speare

https://www.trade-a-plane.com/search?ca ... e=aircraft

Hope Steven can find a prop and get up and running again.
I would be interested in the cause if it is known, and what upgrades had been incorporated into that scissors (ie SS bushings? bronze?) Just wondering if there could be yet another explanation for a nosegear collapse. Thanks.

Thanks J.C. - a topic that will always interest me.

Poking around, found
This chat on bearhawk forums
And a Hartzell mention (search the document for “inertia”)

https://hartzellprop.com/EXP-AIRCRAFT/M ... Vol-02.pdf

Thanks Chris, zackly what the concern is. (If they have a number does it have a large enough safety margin…. And how did they come up with it - seems to me they had to test engines to failure, to get real world numbers. I have to wonder how those engines failed. The major overhauler I mentioned earl...

Thanks for your thoughts, J.C. To prove that the problem was a Munson build error, I would love to hear an hypothesis or see photos of what was done in his shop to the case or crank that could cause this type of failure. I still have mine and might just send it off to a metallurgist some day. My und...

While at the Pecan Plantation fly-in yesterday, quite by happenstance I was seated next to a gentleman L-IV owner who told the group a story about having a crankshaft failure in his airplane last year over the Panhandle followed by a successful landing to a dirt road. Because the exact same thing ha...