Saturday, February 27, 2021

Way too close

 


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  1. Them Spits were mighty slick. Purty, too!

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  2. Looks like a YAK. Wrong tail for a Spit, or am I mistaken?

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  3. 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.

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    1. Unless...the HP and that prop exceeded the heavy wing loading of that maneuver. No substitute for HP.

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  4. 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.

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  5. There is a YouTube video of a MiG—17 doing that at an air show, and just shaking it off. Ivan proof.

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  6. Try this, a Spitfire flying between the grandstands at Goodwood.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnc78LW7V1U

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