EAAer Lands Safely on Interstate in New Mexico
By Patrick Panzera
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Jon Finley with Subar-Sonic, his Quickie Q-2 that won the COPPERSTATE 2008
Best Alternative Engine award.
March 8, 2010 =94 A Quickie Q-2, owned and piloted by Jonathan (Jon)
Finley (EAA 394580), made an emergency landing Saturday morning, March 6, o
n Interstate Highway 25, parallel to Mid Valley airpark (E98) in Los Lunas,
New Mexico. Jon=99s plane is powered with a direct-drive, Subaru aut
omobile conversion and was featured in the March 2009 issue of Experimenter
, EAA=99s homebuilder e-newsletter.
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By noon, Subar-Sonic was back in the hangar and still not willing to start.
Initial troubleshooting indicates that the problem may be due to a single
nut coming loose and getting into some electronics. =9CThe problem ap
pears to have been a nut in the cockpit (no, not this nut),=9D he jok
ed =9CLast time I looked at it was some 300 hours ago. Somewhere in t
hat timeframe it worked its way off the bolt and fell onto a printed circui
t board which seems to have defeated all of my built-in redundancy.
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=9CAt least that is the theory at the moment, and I can=99t fin
d anything else wrong. I won=99t know for sure for at least several d
ays but will let ya=99ll know when I know,=9D Jon told us.=0A
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