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Offline Fender16

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2008, 12:32:43 PM »
Worst part is he nearly had it recovered. Just not enough alt.

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2008, 12:49:23 PM »
I believe the cause of the crash was the loss of power in one if it's engines.

Sounds logical, I don't believe a mossie would have flat stalled that easily. However he lost that power at a very critical time, just on top of that climb  :frown:

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2008, 12:51:47 PM »
Worst part is he nearly had it recovered. Just not enough alt.

That's what I noticed too.  He almost had it.
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2008, 01:22:15 PM »
<S> To the pilot

The Mosquito is one of the most beautiful aircraft built and certainly in the game today. 

That spin is very typical of what I have experienced in game when you loose an engine at low speed.  Since the remodel the stall is much easier to handle and much harder to get into.  It is now possible to float it at about 80 at the top of climbs, and hammer heads a pretty easy if you get the timing right.  I've managed to surprise a few P38s that way but it is still not as good as a 38 in the verticle.

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #19 on: August 27, 2008, 02:13:49 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5ut3tP3ZM&feature=related


Very sad but notice how similar it looks to what happens when you lose it in AH2. He loses the back end and then is fighting the gyration whilst trying to point the nose down and regain AoA. Almost made it. This is very familliar if you have ever flown the AH2 mossy. good job on the model HTC.

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He didn't "lose the back end", he lost the left engine at low airspeed...bad thing to have happen.
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2008, 02:57:35 PM »
right, i didnt know it was engine failiure when i first posted. This has happened to me many times when an engine dies in the middle of a fight. 1 engine mosquito is virtualy useless.
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2008, 09:53:13 PM »
Mech :

 your obsevations are pretty close,except for the loss of engine!!

 The mossie did suffer from"losing it's tail" this could have been fixed,
 but was seen as not really needed.

 An old RCAF mossie driver told me that if you were"heavy footed" the
 woodie would bite you.

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2008, 11:58:48 PM »
Worst part is he nearly had it recovered. Just not enough alt.

I know, it looks like maybe 100 feet more alt. he woulda had it under control... .

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #23 on: August 28, 2008, 12:04:44 AM »
I thought I was going to be watching a recovery..... not a death   :(

Didn't really need to watch that

My mistake for not reading it fully first

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #24 on: August 28, 2008, 12:22:27 AM »
to live at all is certain death, what matters to most of us is what happens in the middle. this guy spent his life taking the risk of flight and enjoying the benifits that come with that risk. his life was not wasted and finally he paid the ultimate price for the love of his life. there is something noble in death when the life was always laughing in deaths face so defiantly. yes its distressing also and im sorry i wasnt more clear A8tool.
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #25 on: August 28, 2008, 02:52:22 AM »
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #26 on: August 28, 2008, 03:04:57 AM »
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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #27 on: August 28, 2008, 05:17:13 AM »
Worst part is he nearly had it recovered. Just not enough alt.

you gotta hate that, so close to success and then failure slaps you in the face...


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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #28 on: August 28, 2008, 06:17:37 AM »
"You can hear him cut the power after the first spin to try and stop the gyration."

You can also hear a bang coming from the engine. It is possible that the other engine had a slight malfunction when he went inverted so he nearly immediately cut power to counter the destabilizing effect.

"Sounds logical, I don't believe a mossie would have flat stalled that easily."

If you look at the fuselage profile of a Mossie and the size of its vertical stabilizer I do not wonder at all that it behaves like that if the power is lost from one engine in a difficult flight state. I also remember reading that normally one engine flight was not a problem for Mossie.

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Re: Mosquito stalls and spins.
« Reply #29 on: August 28, 2008, 07:42:28 AM »
"I saw a Fairey Firefly crash at Duxford 2 or 3 years ago."

One of the crew members was a Warbirds player:  'seadog' and his brother was a warbirds trainer  '=rix==' :(

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