March 10th 10, 11:16 PM
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DIY Two-Stroke Engine Construction Methods
Jim Logajan wrote:
Tim Wescott wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:
Tim Wescott wrote:
And always fly within an easy glide of a landing strip...
That's a given. The problem is an engine out on takeoff
climb. With an ultralight, it's very difficult to
impossible to get the nose down and airspeed up fast enough
to avoid a stall.
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Surely there are ultralights that don't exhibit this problem!
There a Powered parachutes.[1]
Almost certainly other types of ultralights don't exhibit that issue
either, too. (Discounting even ultralight airships.) I suspect Jim
Stewart's source was generalizing a wee bit too much.
[1] http://www.quakerstatepoweredparachu...ne_failure.htm
From your link...
"Turns increase sink rate which in turn increase broken bone rate."
Ouch.
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