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1. 03:28 AM - Re: Re: ARS VI Registration now open! (kp)
2. 05:43 AM - Re: Oxygen (Michael Bolton)
3. 01:22 PM - Sport Aviation april 2007 (Russ aka Duncan)
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| Subject: | Re: ARS VI Registration now open! |
> tail. Now if we can see that done with the squadron seat pack, I'll feel
> even more reasured. Reacon this Bubba is up for another fling?!
> Doc
I reckon he's a sucker for punishment as the video features two different
aircraft.
I wonder if three in a row was too much for him ?
Barking mad !
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National Welders here in SC delivers compressed air in a silver bottle. Now
I'm really confussed. lol
Hope to see you all at Lakeland.
Michael Bolton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Davis" <mark@pld.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: Yak-List: Oxygen
>
> My local Co-op leases me compressed air in a yellow bottle clearly labeled
> "Compressed Air" which is serviced by Airgas Company. There may not be a
> "standard" color for compressed air.
>
> Mark Davis
> N44YK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Kemp" <viperdoc@mindspring.com>
> To: <yak-list@matronics.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 8:32 AM
> Subject: RE: Yak-List: Oxygen
>
>
>>
>> Gill,
>> Answer: NO! Oxygen is always in a GREEN bottle (by US and international
>> standards). Commercially sold compressed air should never be in a GREEN
>> bottle. The yokes for the tanks are different to prevent some Darwinian
>> from crossing them up. Not to say that they do not afro engineer their
>> way
>> around that safety system because they do. Nitrous Oxide is in a BLUE
>> tank,
>> Nitrogen is in a YELLOW tank, and Compressed air is in a BLACK tank when
>> sold commercially.
>> So if you see some boozo coming toward your plane with a green or blue
>> tank
>> in his hand tell him thanks but no thanks. O2 in a GREEN bottle is for
>> breathing not smoking! Tell the FBO operator that he needs to have the
>> line
>> boy with the blue tank in his hand drug tested.
>> Doc
>>
>>
>>> [Original Message]
>>> From: Jill Gernetzke <jill@m-14p.com>
>>> To: <yak-list@matronics.com>
>>> Date: 3/31/2007 9:00:41 AM
>>> Subject: Yak-List: Oxygen
>>>
>>>
>>> Group,
>>>
>>> We just had a Moose customer who was putting his 40 hours of fly-off
>>> time on the airplane. The pressure relief valve took a dump and
>>> relieved all of the air. (This is a unit supplied by Kimballs to
>>> homebuiders and not Russian.)
>>> He landed at a small strip. Rather than attempting to hand prop the
>>> airplane, he asked if they had a bottle of compressed air. Yes, they
>>> did! Out they come with a green bottle. Again, he is a bit reluctant
>>> and asks if they are sure it is not oxygen. Again, they tell him it
>>> is compressed air. He started the airplane and there was a bang. He
>>> had the airplane started and may not have known what had happened at
>>> that point. After returning to his home base it was discovered that
>>> the starter hose blew apart, the filter blew through and the air
>>> distributor stripped three of its studs out of the mating body plus a
>>> host of internal damage.
>>>
>>> Last month, I received a call from a ferry pilot. He had landed at an
>>> airport and couldn't get the airplane started. The local FBO had
>>> serviced the air system. He called to verify start procedures. When I
>>> asked him what they had used, he said compressed air. I went further
>>> and asked if he was sure it wasn't oxygen that they had used. No, it
>>> was compressed air. I then asked what color the bottle was. Green. I
>>> urged him to purge the air system of the oxygen before he did anything
>>> else. Disaster avoided.
>>>
>>> A Pitts Model 12 guy wasn't so lucky last summer when he was ferrying
>>> his airplane and landed in Phoenix. He had similar results as the
>>> Moose guy, but had to fix the airplane in 112 degree heat.
>>>
>>> My question to the group is, will oxygen ever be in any other color
>>> bottle, except green? I really don't think so, but I would like to
>>> know conclusively.
>>>
>>> Years ago, when I worked at Kay Larkin in Palatka, Florida there was a
>>> line guy with little aviation experience who fueled a DC-3 with jet
>>> fuel because it was a big airplane and according to his logic, all big
>>> airplanes used jet fuel. This DC-3 was going to take a load of
>>> skydivers up. The pilot noticed the jet fuel smell and queried the
>>> line guy. The fuel was immediately drained. Another disaster avoided.
>>>
>>> As PIC, we are responsible to make sure these things do not happen. To
>>> me, the worst thing is to not know what we don't know. I am always
>>> learning, preferably not the hard way!
>>>
>>>
>>> I will post a short article with photos on oxygen and the air system on
>>> our website next week.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>> M-14P, Incorporated
>>> 4905 Flightline Drive
>>> Kingman, AZ 86401 -7417
>>> (928)-681-4400
>>> Fax(928)681-4404
>>> www.m-14p.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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| Subject: | Sport Aviation april 2007 |
Nice write-up Tim Gagnon!
Sir Duncan Russell Comyn
Noble Knight of IronWolf
Bishop of Strathclyde
Defender of Scotland
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