Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Apollo North American not at fault in Fatal inflight breakup!

 
> Posted by: "apollonorthamerica" apollonorthamerica@yahoo.com
>
> Really Mike? and I thought as a FAA WSC examiner you would have more
> knowledge than that :).
> So the Tundra trike (the accident aircraft) in your opinion was a trike
> designed by and manufactured by Apollo North America? For your
> information, that ludicrous assumption didn't stand in the lawsuit
> either.
 
Nice twisting.
I did not say Apollo North America *designed* it.
I said they were the manufacturer, (as per FAA registration paperwork).
 
You apparently claimed to Rick that they were not the manufacturer.
(and as a matter of interest, who was it who filled in "Apollo North America"
 on the paperwork sent to FAA to register that aircraft?)

> Just because in the transition period the person/entity filling out the
> paperwork put their name as the builder or for that matter put MICHAEL
> HUCKLE as the builder's name (nothing stopped them from doing exactly
> that) on their Airborne trike, that just makes them the manufacturer and
> designer and not Airborne??
 
You've thrown in "and designer" to confuse the issue.
Slippery aren't you?
 
Focus on "manufacturer", the only thing being discussed.
 
So then, -who- was it that told the FAA that aircraft was manufactured by
"Apollo North America"?

> And even so The Tundra trike and Aeros wing did not break up in the sky
> till it was taken upside down. Read the report from NTSB and then read
> the FAA recommendation for Zodiac - carefully -.
> Abid
 
In events like these, we can virtually never tell whether the "going upside down"
was the initial problem, or something that occurred after the aircraft had already
suffered a problem.
 
To suggest the pilot must have deliberately taken it "upside down",
is a bit of a stretch.
(being that very few trike pilots ever get anywhere near upside down)
The possibility always exists that something broke in flight,
the aircraft subsequently (while out of control) was upside down,
and further breakages occurred.
 
But that's not the point.
The point was that "Apollo North America" *was* the manufacturer
of the aircraft, just like Rick said.
That's what happens in the trike world if someone buys an undercarriage kit
from somewhere, a folded wing from somewhere else, an engine probably
from Austria, a propeller from anywhere, adds wiring, instruments, a BRS,
and puts them all together and test flies it, and adjusts it, and registers it.
They just "manufactured" an aircraft.
 
Or do you want to tell us that either FAA or the Court said they did not?

 
Cheers,
Mike
 
 
 
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