And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It looks like an accelerated stall right toward the end. If so, I don't know how he pulled it off. I say he'll never be allowed to fly an airshow again.
That same poorly done loop has destroyed more aircraft at airshows than any other maneuver, I suspect. I thought it had been banned by now, after losing so many warbirds.
Them Spits were mighty slick. Purty, too!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a YAK. Wrong tail for a Spit, or am I mistaken?
ReplyDeleteDat's a YAK!
DeleteIt looks like an accelerated stall right toward the end. If so, I don't know how he pulled it off. I say he'll never be allowed to fly an airshow again.
ReplyDeleteUnless...the HP and that prop exceeded the heavy wing loading of that maneuver. No substitute for HP.
DeleteThat same poorly done loop has destroyed more aircraft at airshows than any other maneuver, I suspect. I thought it had been banned by now, after losing so many warbirds.
ReplyDeleteYAK or a P39?
ReplyDeleteThere is a YouTube video of a MiG—17 doing that at an air show, and just shaking it off. Ivan proof.
ReplyDeleteTry this, a Spitfire flying between the grandstands at Goodwood.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnc78LW7V1U
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ReplyDeleteLink: Spitfire in the weeds with Alain de Cadenet
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