Remove Descent Remove Firewall Remove Rudder
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Accident Briefs—July 2025

Plane and Pilot

The pilot applied right rudder in an attempt to correct this, resulting in a ground loop. The postaccident examination revealed a fuel leak in a fitting where the fuel line passes through the firewall to the engine. The airplane made a slow descent toward the east for about nine minutes, away from the destination airport.

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Nothing Small About It

Plane and Pilot

Pretty much the only metal parts are the landing gear legs, stainless firewalls, engine mounts, engines and hardware. An elegantly simple rope system inside the fuselage raises and lowers the Gweduck’s water rudder mounted inside the base of the main rudder (right). Pricing You would have to ask.