B: RE: Re: RE: My Response Dwerlk/Harrad Reports

[George Braly]

No major hold up.  We have some more work to do on the test fixture, and frankly,  this is not the only project we have going right now.  Little things keep coming up that distract us.  One of them is finishing off a test on the rear wing spar of the T-34s so we can free up a lot of high dollar electronic equipment and get it out of the T-34 and set up and connected to the strain gages on the test stand.  The  tragic crash in Houston this week has caused us to have to divert our attention to dealing with some of those kinds of issues.

Also, it is normally better to get a general game plan reviewed at least informally by the FAA.   We are generating a formal test plan now,  - - but when we are ready to start generating the strain data we will do that.

We still have to replace the lower side skin on the test fuselage which we had to disassemble in order to get the strain gages down into all of the difficult places we wanted to install them.

That takes some good sheet metal work, and one of our key sheet metal people was in a car wreck.

Also, a  key part of the testing involves actually placing a "part" on the structure to fix the problem.  That means we have to develop the 3-D geometry of the structure in the area in order to design the part in order to build the parts to be used in the repair.   That means freeing up the coordinate measuring machine from its current work on another project and diverting our key CAD people to this project away from another project that is equally critical.

It isn't going to happen instantly - - but it will happen a lot sooner than a computational model.

Regards,  George

-----Original Message-----
From: beech-owners-bounces at beechcraft.org [mailto:beech-owners-bounces at beechcraft.org] On Behalf Of Scott Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 11:59 PM
To: beech-owners at beechcraft.org
Subject: Re: B: RE: Re: RE: My Response Dwerlk/Harrad Reports

George Braly wrote:
We have a complete structure now mounted in a test fixture and a bunch of
hydraulic cylinders to load the structure - - and instrumented up with an
appropriate array of strain gages - - which is capable of giving  hard data
on a real airframe - - not  just computationally modeled data based on a
whole host of idealized assumptions - - that would, ultimately,  require
further strain gage data to verify the computational model!

That is basically where we are at the present time.



Okay George...........Pardon my dumb side.
You know I, and I believe I speak for most of my fellow Bonanza and Baron
owners, surly appreciate you folks taking a hard data approach to this
issue.

But what is the hold up, as far as GAMI testing is concerned?

Does this event need to be physically witnessed by all parties involved?
Are the computer records and a video enough evidence?

What are we missing?

Fly Safe,
Scott




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