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ANyone know whats going on here
http://www.break.com/index/single-engine-plane-crashes-after-takeoff.html
http://www.break.com/index/single-engine-plane-crashes-after-takeoff.html
It looked like it happend to fast to be a stall.
your airspeed is what your ASI says less the speed of the wind. ie. 65mph indicated - 20mph wind = 35mph real.
it looked as if the pilot tried to keep the tail down a bit to maintain control on take off and build ground speed before lift off,, did you see that too ?
Yes... it was either crummy taildragger technique, or perhaps he was tailheavy. That could also have contributed to a stall/spin. I looked at NTSB last night to see if there was an accident that matched, but no joy. Perhaps this is from Canada.
There are only two fatal DH89 Tiger Moth prangs and both were stall/spins but don't match this. I looked also at all accidents in which "video" was mentioned, back to 1989. Nothing close... the only biplanes were Great Lakes and Wacos, vastly different looking machines.
I suppose this could be something shot with models, for a movie or something.
Unfortunately in F/W training most pilots will never explore accelerated stalls and spins until they do CFI, and even then they often get the bare-minimum gloss-over. (You don't have to be proficient in spins and recovery to be CFI, you just have to have spin training logged).
I did my first spin entry entirely inadvertently, in a botched power-on stall, at age 16. It scared the living Jesus out of me (and my CFI, who recovered and explained what I had done wrong). Now I enjoy them but most of the planes I fly are placarded against them, and I'm usually flying from Point A to Point B.
cheers
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