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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:24:26 GMT, Mike Marron wrote:
"Keith Willshaw" wrote: "John R Weiss" wrote: What is a "stall turn"? Pull up into a vertical climb in a light aircraft and you'll soon find out Pull up into a vertical climb in the (tailless) type of aircraft I happen to fly and you'll probably die. Here is a horrific little video that illustrates exactly what I mean: http://www.pegasus-usa.com/tech/tumble.mpg (Play it several times in slow motion and just imagine what was going through the doomed pilot's mind at the time!) A "stall turn" to me is a hammerhead stall (we can't perform those either, without either dying or firing the ballistic chute). Without a rudder, the closest thing to a hammerhead stall that I can safely perform in the type of airplane I fly is a wingover. But since a true wingover is a 90-deg. climbing turn followed by a 90-deg. descending turn resulting in a 180-deg. change in direction, technically I perform "wangs" rather than wingovers. Trikes can't perform true wingovers because bottom rudder is needed at the top of the climbing turn to keep the aircraft coordinated. In steady-state winds aloft, flying stationary (relative to the ground), or even backwards and sideways is no problem, however. Ultralights are generally not considered "aircraft". Al Minyard |
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