Hello Rabbit hole, thanks N600RA...

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So I was bored in my hotel room tonight, and I was browsing FB. I am friends with an aircraft sales page and they had for sale, an aircraft that I wasn't familiar with. Meet N600RA (now sold):

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She is an Aerospatiale Corvette. Arousing my curiosity, I started reading a bit about the aircraft, I have never seen one before so I was generally curious. Looks like a Falcon 20 had sex with a Lear 35, and given the era of the aircraft, that is probably where how they gathered the design for the Corvette.

Multiple clicks later, I arrive at this:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980319-1

So I begin to read, and the bafoonery is strong with this accident. I am assuming that the picture of N600RA posted for sale was in gross error for multiple reasons, but it killed a solid hour in the hotel room which is cool. Very interesting accident, and I think it is the first time of somebody trying to depart with passengers, with only one engine...

Here is the NTSB rundown:
http://www.avweb.com/news/safety/183019-1.html

Here is the actual NTSB report. The pilot had initially lied to investigators, saying that the engine had failed at V1....

http://www.ntsb.gov/about/employmen...ev_id=20001211X09774&ntsbno=SEA98FA047&akey=1

This is actually a shocking report to read. Can anyone shed more light? I was surprised that I didn't see the pilot named in the accident, although I am 3 glasses deep in some Oregon Pinot (ironic right?) so I might have missed it. I would guess that the pilot is no longer flying...
 
Anyway, to add something significant to this thread. During FSI's data collection for the Westwind simulator, they did, in fact, do single engine takeoff runs. They were quite lengthy (gigity) and by their nature, had a varying VMCG as power was slowly brought to takeoff thrust. It's quite an interesting story talking to the pilots who did the test flying.
 
It is still very common. My buddy started working at an outfit like that. He's been there for months. No type rating, sits right seat in 3 different aircraft. I actually made a comment to him early on regarding a similar issue. How is somebody not training on an aircraft supposed to know where the guy who is rated, is operating that aircraft properly? And if crap his the fan, how are you gonna be of help?
 
CVR said:
At 0916:00, the pilot said, "should be able to compression start it once it gets in the air." The copilot's seat occupant replied, "seriously?", and the pilot stated, "yeah." The copilot's seat occupant asked, "why would, why would you say that? I mean is there something that the air will do that you can't do here on the ground?" The pilot replied, "yeah it ah it turns the blades over."
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So I was bored in my hotel room tonight, and I was browsing FB. I am friends with an aircraft sales page and they had for sale, an aircraft that I wasn't familiar with. Meet N600RA (now sold):

792690.jpg


She is an Aerospatiale Corvette. Arousing my curiosity, I started reading a bit about the aircraft, I have never seen one before so I was generally curious. Looks like a Falcon 20 had sex with a Lear 35, and given the era of the aircraft, that is probably where how they gathered the design for the Corvette.

Multiple clicks later, I arrive at this:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19980319-1

So I begin to read, and the bafoonery is strong with this accident. I am assuming that the picture of N600RA posted for sale was in gross error for multiple reasons, but it killed a solid hour in the hotel room which is cool. Very interesting accident, and I think it is the first time of somebody trying to depart with passengers, with only one engine...

Here is the NTSB rundown:
http://www.avweb.com/news/safety/183019-1.html

Here is the actual NTSB report. The pilot had initially lied to investigators, saying that the engine had failed at V1....

http://www.ntsb.gov/about/employmen...ev_id=20001211X09774&ntsbno=SEA98FA047&akey=1

This is actually a shocking report to read. Can anyone shed more light? I was surprised that I didn't see the pilot named in the accident, although I am 3 glasses deep in some Oregon Pinot (ironic right?) so I might have missed it. I would guess that the pilot is no longer flying...
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This looks really interesting, got a few lines into the read and realized I need to save this for when I'm not trying to get my family out the door...
Where did they come up with such an original name like "corvette"?
If I bought one, I'd have to have a chevy corvette of the same year parked next to it!
 
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