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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« on: June 22, 2000, 10:20:00 PM »
What i said above needs to be changed. If you dive from 30k to 25k and have 420 mph you rip wings this is not right. Please fix. This is in the mk 9 spit.

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2000, 10:38:00 PM »
IAS or TAS?

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2000, 12:19:00 AM »
Ok this is the 4th death for me in 2 days because of this little gem. I trim out gentlty and bang wing rips. I have never read about this ever. All of my dives have been at a gentile angle too. Going for guys half a sector away. Why does it freeze at 420 to start? Seem some one blew it on the mk 9 spit.
Im very frustrated EYE
P.S> the spit had good wings it was not a japanese plane!

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2000, 12:37:00 AM »
ias

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2000, 12:49:00 AM »
What Mach number is 420mph IAS at 25k?

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2000, 02:07:00 AM »
OK here's a fix for the above problem. In the dive if controls freeze .
1 Throttle back.
2 Turn off motor
3 Tap k key 2 times If you hold it down like i was you will rip a wing.
This happens when you dive from alts 25k or above. Controls freeze even if you are in trim throttled back.
Also there is a prob with the auto climb. You cant get it to climb at a other speed than default one.

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« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2000, 08:25:00 AM »
You forgot to mention that you were trimming up during the dive. No wonder it lost its wings.

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« Reply #7 on: June 23, 2000, 08:41:00 AM »
425mph IAS at 25k 600+ mph TAS.  Goodbye wings.

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« Reply #8 on: June 23, 2000, 11:46:00 AM »
At that altitude, you should have heard a sonic boom, since at that altitude, your mach number was approx. 1.2.

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« Reply #9 on: June 23, 2000, 12:09:00 PM »

 hee heee he hee.


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« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2000, 01:21:00 PM »
What was the Vne on the Spit?
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

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« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2000, 01:32:00 PM »
470mph IAS, when the ailerons reversed.

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spit rips wings at 420 mph in high alt dive
« Reply #12 on: June 25, 2000, 12:57:00 AM »
Westy tag you it