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Old 09-23-2018 | 05:10 PM
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Have you had it before? your jet was talking to you and you didn't listen, went up anyways and something went wrong with it during the flight.

My Boomerang was talking to me on the Friday before our jet event, few times ago during the starting sequence I noticed the starting sequence was not smooth buy it run good then I went to fly, all good, till Friday, I was going to do two shake off flights in preparations for the jet event the next day, the start up sequence was not smooth but it run good, I taxi out, got ready and released the brakes, she began accelerating, trust 100%, one second before rotation, she passed in front of me, all looking good, rotttt....piiiiiiuuuiiusssss, flame out, stoped at the end of the runway.

I try to make her run again but all I was getting was flames, then the starter was not engaging and so on, I stoped and dropped down everything, decided that was it for the weekend, no flying for me during the event.

Now at home I'm finding a worn out starter O ring, fuel leak under the front cover ( the festo fitting was loose enough to be able to rotate it with my fingers ) a loose center exhaust cone because it was missing one of the three screws that holds it in place ( found it in the very back of the fuse )
I'm still digging in, not sure what else I'm going to find, a possible bad fuel pump, don't know at the moment

How about you guys? Do you have any stories when you listened to you jet or when you didn't

Last edited by CARS II; 09-24-2018 at 04:06 PM.