[DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash

[Pantdino]

I say If you're about to hit something, "both feet out"- push the clutch in, mash the brake, and hope the engine survives.  
If you have a rev limiter installed, it probably will. No?




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lewis <lotus0005 at hotmail.com>
To: panteraplace <panteraplace at hotmail.com>; detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 4, 2012 6:19 pm
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash



'm reading WHAT THE DOG SAW by Malcom Gladwell, and one of the essays is about 
ennedy's plane crash several years ago off hte coast in the Northeast.  It 
alks about panic and other actions, but the point is that pilots at night in 
otal darkness can not "see" nor can they "feel" what the plane is doing in a 
ownward spiral.  What feels normal is not!  The point was that it takes 
xperience and training to act on self-autopilot many times.  So, my question 
lso, is what should a person do when the gas feed sticks open.  Maybe I will 
ry to episodic-act what to do.    ---Bill
> From: panteraplace at hotmail.com
 To: detomaso at realbig.com
 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:12:55 -0400
 Subject: [DeTomaso] Good news from the Swedish crash
 
 I had my throttle sick wide open on my 1960 Ford that I owned at age 19.  It
 was a 292 V8 and a three speed manual floor shifter.   I had the air cleaner
 off and when I put it back on it was turned so the throttle lever would
 stick open.  I pulled out of the service station and floored it in first
 gear.  I started to back off a bit in first gear and realized my throttle
 was stuck to the floor.  It all happens in absolute nano-seconds, and by
 instinct alone my left hand went for the key and my left foot for the
 clutch.  My left foot on the clutch beat my hand to the key and thank
 goodness the rpm was limited by valve float.   It sounded absolutely
 horrible.   The engine survived fine, but from then on I've always been very
 careful with free throttle movement.   
 
 Anyone else have a throttle stick wide open?  I wonder if this type of WOT
 crash event could be related to a person that normally drives an automatic
 and the instinct is to go for the brake rather than the key and clutch. 
 
 Mike        
 
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