Thread: They call it the impossible turn.
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Old February 15th 10, 05:10 PM posted to alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default They call it the impossible turn.
In rec.aviation.piloting Dallas wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:02:38 -0000, wrote:

Yep, powered aircraft stop flying and just flutter willy-nilly to the ground
without power.

Only half true.

Apparently you haven't seen any of the movies about airplanes loosing
power. They tend to start rattling violently the instant the engine stops.
Then they take on a whistling sound like a bomb being dropped. Hanging on
to the yoke becomes impossible as it takes on a violent forward and
backward motion. All control is lost and the aircraft plows into the
ground then bounces back into the air several times while all external
appendages are ripped off. The good news is that they never catch on fire
and everyone onboard lives to become survivalists for the next 2 hours.


Better than that, on a recent TV adventure show:

A fire breaks out in the cargo hold which also leaves a big hole in the
fuselage.

The hero has to roll the airliner inverted to blow out the fire because "the
wind is blowing faster on the top of the airplane than the bottom".


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Jim Pennino

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