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Old July 22nd 03, 04:53 AM
Kyle Boatright
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"Mike" wrote in message
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I've read the term ground loop in a lot of articles and accident reports

but
what exactly is a ground loop?

--Mike


Take a shopping cart. Push it backwards across a parking lot or down the
grocery store aisle and release it. At some point, it is likely to do a
rapid piroutte. If it was an airplane instead of a shopping cart, that
would have been a groundloop.

Groundloops can apply very high forces to landing gear, tearing up the gear
and/or overturning the aircraft. Generally, they happen in tailwheel
aircraft.

KB