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How does one land upside down following a PT3?
On Tuesday, June 24, 2014 10:48:14 AM UTC-4, Evan Ludeman wrote:
On Saturday, June 21, 2014 8:59:22 PM UTC-4, son_of_flubber wrote: On Friday, June 20, 2014 11:58:21 PM UTC-4, POPS wrote: It's super simple ... you land on your roof .... geez But how do one land inverted without breaking wings, nose, or tail AND walk away? I'm more interested in well-dissected historical cases where this has happened, than in this particular undocumented accident. This is a serious question then? It's not possible to "land" (i.e. in a controlled fashion) a glider inverted. Wing incidence, camber and dihedral are all against you. If you were to try this, the glider would touch down on the tail with the nose pitched rather high and the fuselage would drop hard on the cockpit, still with significant forward speed. It's a call-911 event. And there probably won't be any need to hurry. When someone crawls out of a wreck that stops inverted, it's because the glider flopped on its back at the end of some sort of tumble and it happened to do so in a relatively gentle fashion. It's not a high percentage play.. T8 agreed! |
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