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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg
Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. A good lawyer needs to get on this with respect to BadWaterBill's untimely demise. -- Gregory Hall |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message ... http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg A good lawyer needs to get on this with respect to BadWaterBill's untimely demise. With all due respect, that is a terrible idea. I think we already have too many lawyers involved in GA's affairs. The Lancair is a homebuilt, experimental aircraft; "You pays your money and you takes your chances" AKA, caveat emptor . Vaughn |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message ... http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. A good lawyer needs to get on this with respect to BadWaterBill's untimely demise. -- Gregory Hall Are you proposing a Lawyer for horizontal stabilizer design review? My guess is that if you have been able to do a review of the horizontal stab from a photo, that BwB would have a good idea of just what he was flying and as the PIC was responsible for the safe operation of the bird. What a Lawyer could add to this tragedy without creating a second tragedy is not clear. |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
Gregory Hall wrote:
http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. A good lawyer needs to get on this with respect to BadWaterBill's untimely demise. -- Gregory Hall Bill would cuss you out for saying that. And? What is the area ratio of stab/wing? Did you notice that the wing is tiny too? -- Richard (remove the X to email) |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"cavelamb himself" wrote in message m... Gregory Hall wrote: http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. A good lawyer needs to get on this with respect to BadWaterBill's untimely demise. -- Gregory Hall Bill would cuss you out for saying that. And? What is the area ratio of stab/wing? Did you notice that the wing is tiny too? -- Richard (remove the X to email) He seems to have missed a great deal, in just a few words. Peter |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:41:35 -0400, Gregory Hall wrote:
http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. Greg, no design theorist here but just because the hor stab "appears to small" isn't much of an argument. The front wing of a canard compared to the main wings is very small but the combo works in a pusher config. it wouldn't appear to but it does. Not knowing the camber and other details including the airflow to the stabs makes the stalling prior argument unsubstantiated invho. |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. ************************************************** ************* Any one ever look at the little tail on the ME-109? A bitch to land but was told that was caused by the main gear configuration. Big John |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message ... http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. I find your strange posting to be quite offensive in its serious charges which are totally unfounded. As others have already pointed out, you are fundamentally incorrect about the purpose of the horizontal stabilizer. The horizontal tail holds the nose up, not down. Your assertion about the Legacy's stall recovery just makes no sense at all. By the way, the Lancair Legacy is the most fun civilian airplane I've flown and is the main reason I returned to general aviation after a decades-long absence. I'm sure there is a Legacy near you and I'll bet its pilot would be happy to take you for a ride. You can see for yourself what a great airplane it is. Dennis |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"Dennis Johnson" wrote in message . .. "Gregory Hall" wrote in message ... http://www.youngeagles.org/photos/gallery/Monoplanes/LancairLegacy2000.jpg Look at the picture. It's easy to see why the Lancair is dangerous. The horizontal stabilizers appear to be on the too small side. This would result in their stalling before the wing. Then the aircraft would pitch up making the main wing stall. Ill-conceived, IMO. I find your strange posting to be quite offensive in its serious charges which are totally unfounded. As others have already pointed out, you are fundamentally incorrect about the purpose of the horizontal stabilizer. The horizontal tail holds the nose up, not down. Your assertion about the Legacy's stall recovery just makes no sense at all. I think it makes good sense. Look at the size of that engine up front. Looks like a P-51 Mustang for pity sake. When you're being pulled along by that big prop and heavy, powerful engine it pulls the nose of the aircraft down. The horizontal stabilizers have to counteract this force by putting an upward force on the nose by pushing the tail down. If and when the engine suddenly dies the aircraft will pitch up suddenly and since the size of the stabilizers are so puny they might easily stall and be unable to counteract the upward pitch at the nose resulting in a tail down death spiral. By the way, the Lancair Legacy is the most fun civilian airplane I've flown and is the main reason I returned to general aviation after a decades-long absence. I'm sure there is a Legacy near you and I'll bet its pilot would be happy to take you for a ride. You can see for yourself what a great airplane it is. It looks too much like an irresponsible, hot rod, stunt plane to me. Is it any wonder so many companies offering homebuilt aircraft have gone out of business? http://www.homebuilt.org/aircraft/nolonger.html This is the safest homebuilt IMO.(VariEze ). The canard makes it foolproof. http://video.google.com.au/videoplay...77166441&hl=en -- Gregory Hall |
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Lancair Legacy Design Flaw?
"Gregory Hall" wrote in message ... It looks too much like an irresponsible, hot rod, stunt plane to me. Well, you sucked me in at first, so on a troll scale of zero-to-10 you rate at least a five. How are things in France? Vaughn |
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