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Originally Posted by Mule
Connie's supposed to be a cheap SOB. Lack of maintenance? Maybe he's trying to save up to beat Schumacher?
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Connie is definitely "cheap". And he's "cheap" on maintenance for sure- he hires mechanics on the cheap...guys straight out of school and guys with police records. But in 3 1/2 years of flying his [ugly, oil-leaking] planes... the worst thing that I ever saw was a badly overheating electrical generator transmission.
[yes, the alternators on the 747's engines use what amounts to a light truck automatic transmission to make sure that they always spin at a constant speed so that they can produce a constant frequency for the flight instruments]
I just followed the checklist and "disconnected" or shut down the constant-speed drive. Some of my friends had far worse problems, but not me.
Hmm? I thought that Connie Kalitta was an
NHRA drag racer. I didn't know that he was now interested in Formula One. How fast can the typical Formula One car cover a quarter mile?
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