Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Didn't see the T6 roll on these links, but I think I remember the
crash. The 6 has a lousy roll rate and loses energy like a brick when
rolling and doing 2 in a row while down in the weeds can bite you in
the butt dishing out. More than one guy's lost a T6 this way.

Yeah, gave you the wrong one the sifrst time and couldn't get it when I
replied. Youtube seemed to be down or something. Still is. He just did a
single roll. It's pretty obvious from the get go that he hasn't got a
chance. By the time he's 90 deg left the nose is well down on the
horizon and he's commited to some major thrashinbg around on the
elevators and rudder to keep the thing goin which degenerates into
dishing out of the bottom in a big way towards the end. I am surprised
about your comments on it losing energy, though..

The Cobra; his best chance would have been to anticipate the torque
roll carrying all that MP and throttle back to idle before it torqued
out on him, then rolling to the nearest horizon after a mistake like
he made on the way up. In certain conditions you just don't get a
second chance in prop fighters.


OK, that makes sense. I get the feeling he was a bit surprised by the
time he reached the 3/8ths point of the loop and had no real plan out.
They do teach this nowadays, right? I was quizzed mercilessly about
escape routes from all sorts of fjukkups (all of which I had a good
answer for) by the FAA inspector that signed my waiver. Do inspectors
even do those anymore? Evrythng else seems to be done by someone else
these days.





Bertie