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Old 10-30-2002 | 12:37 PM
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mec
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From: oberndorf, AUSTRIA
Default Hotspot Structural Failure

David you are absolutely right.

But there are a few things I have to mention:
My hotspot was one of the first series, bought and flown immediately after the Jet WM in Zeltweg 1999. till now it burned 300 litres of kerosin, surviving three crashes. It’s a pretty old (nevertheless always best maintained plane) jet.
At that time Graupner had nothing to do with selling Jets. In addition to this, in 1999 (first year of Hotspot have been sold) 120N (or even more) turbines had been a dream and no reality at all.
From what I have been told, at the JetRookie Meeting last weekend, held in Karbach, Germany, a Kanguruh, a very fast one, exploded in the air.

Conclusions:
IMHO it is and always will be in our responsibility to do all we can do for safe flying.
Nevertheless ist´s a shame that manufacturers are burying their heads in the sand and do nothing to fix those problems.

mec