Hammerhead stall...

[CyranoAH]

Originally posted by Daff
Gatt, had a flight in a Cap10 a couple of weeks ago..very nice plane . (Didnt do any stall turns, though).
Daff

Hehe I'm currently getting my aerobatic solo in a CAP10B, and it is a bit limited in vertical maneouvers.

She can do Hammerheads... but barely, she lacks the power to do them confidently (180HP).

As of today I have practiced Standard Aileron Rolls, Loops, Spins, Hammerheads, Humpty Bumps, Immelmans, Inverted flight, and that's about it

The hardest thing in a CAP10B is to land her

Here she is:



Daniel

[Turbot]

Originally posted by Fester
Does a 110g2 have counter rotating props?  Or does it torque a specific way, sorry for such a dweb question.

Not a dweeb question, and I don't know the answer in AH - but in Warbirds the older 110 didn't counter rotate and the newer 110 did.

[Fester']

Thanks turbot.  Im trying to come up with a way to revers this machine in the vertical very quickly.  I can get it around ok now, but not 'fast'  Ive got some Ideas that I want to try with throttle management.  I 'think' it torques a bit to the right, so that means I should perform the turn to the right... right?

Thanks guys

[illo]

Originally posted by Animal
You dont need to do all that crap if you fly a P-38L
It will do hammerheads like on autopilot.

I do em well, remember the old ArtLaws flipping out about it.

Yes, I remember artsie.
My 190a8 got him few times in row with hammer. He obiviously didn't like it.

[Regurge]

I was under the impression that this was a hammerhead turn.

Straight up till about 50ias then full left rudder and right aileron. The stall horn doesnt sound and its more or less in a single plane.

heres the film http://plaza.ufl.edu/shamblin/film14hh.ahf

So is this a hammerhead or a wingover?

[Fester']

Something that might be of interest to you twin engine flyers without a dual control throttle.

I mapped 2 functions to my stick last night.  "Shift-2" and "Shift-E"

Press the first button when entering the verticle and at 120 I chop throttle, this only chops throttle to engine 2.  Perform wing over hammerhead whatever to the right then throttle up and hit other button shift-e to give full control back to the engines.

I was hammerheading the 110g2 offline, very responsive.  If you dont re engage engine 2 the plane starts this no stall horn cartwheel, very wild ride and very easy to recover from.  Lotta rudder control on that one, makes me wish artsie was still around

Hope this helps

[0scar]

throttling  will rotate you out of your desired  position when you finish the maneuver, In a 109 I just let airspeed drop to 30-40ais and apply enough rudder to bring the nose over 10-15 degrees, cut the throttle down to 5% and she flops over, apply 50% throttle and you can get your heading in sync with your intentions.

[SKurj]

110 doesn't have counter rotating props IIRC


SKurj

[WldThing]

A hammerhead in a 51..with the tail sliding back is not possible but it can be done in 1 of the sims out there since i was reading the combat files back in the day.  I dont do ropes too many times or even ever but i have done it before and what happens to my plane(no cutting throttle or engine cutting) is i will use my rudder to twist the plane the other way and it will snap back down and sort of pull up.

When that happens i will have to push down on the stick to regain control of the vertical diving in purpose of a hammerhead.  Correct timing is the neccesary.  I can see the con pulling up with me.  Then with the feel i guess that he has lost alot of E.  I Swing her down and by the time im 500 ft away and hes shooting at me for a vertical HO he snaps his plane down and hes ready to die.

So it comes down to practice to actually perfect a good hammerhead, every person has his own way of doing this, even though some peoples seem a lil weird .