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Title: Found out what somthing new today.
Post by: hitech on April 09, 2004, 03:44:21 PM
When attempting 4 point roll at 180 knots in an RV. And on the first knife edge after the 90 deg roll if you stomp rudder very quickly . Your head meets the canopy realy hard.

HiTech
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Post by: 1K0N on April 09, 2004, 03:51:44 PM
Please dont abuse our favorite software developer's skull...
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Post by: LePaul on April 09, 2004, 03:53:17 PM
So how tall were you before the incident, and after?

Which of the RV's are aerobatic?  I know the 8...what about the 9?  Couple guys here are putting the finishing touches on their 9 and want to take me up.  Just wondering how "fun" it could be :cool:
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Post by: bullett308 on April 09, 2004, 03:53:24 PM
LOL did you hurt the canopy:D
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Post by: hitech on April 09, 2004, 03:56:44 PM
RV9 & 10 are not.

No didn't hurt, but scared crap out of me. One of those things you say, lets not do that again.
HiTech
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Post by: Mighty1 on April 09, 2004, 04:19:35 PM
Where are the pictures?:p

Just kidding!
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Post by: CyranoAH on April 09, 2004, 04:20:59 PM
A 4-point roll at 180 KIAS?? You gotta be kidding me!! :eek:

In the Pitts or the Z-50, maneouvering speed is around 250 kph and those are sturdy birds. Doing sharp movements such as those required in a 4-point roll in a RV8 is insane (lots of stress on the airframe).

Please tell me those were kph...

Daniel
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Post by: AKIron on April 09, 2004, 04:23:06 PM
Sounds like yer rudder is over modeled. ;)
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Post by: Nilsen on April 09, 2004, 04:23:49 PM
better add a helmet to your bribe list hitech :D
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Post by: SaburoS on April 09, 2004, 04:24:24 PM
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
A 4-point roll at 180 KIAS?? You gotta be kidding me!! :eek:

In the Pitts or the Z-50, maneouvering speed is around 250 kph and those are sturdy birds. Doing sharp movements such as those required in a 4-point roll in a RV8 is insane (lots of stress on the airframe).

Please tell me those were kph...

Daniel

KIAS = Knots Indicated Air Speed
Much faster than kph.
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Post by: CyranoAH on April 09, 2004, 04:26:56 PM
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Originally posted by SaburoS
KIAS = Knots Indicated Air Speed
Much faster than kph.


My point exactly SaburoS
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Post by: crowMAW on April 09, 2004, 04:29:33 PM
A helmet would only have cracked the canopy.  :p

Never wear a baseball cap with a button at the top when doing acro either or when you have little head room between you and the canopy top...those buttons hurt like a muther...and will also crack the canopy. :aok
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Post by: Nilsen on April 09, 2004, 04:31:53 PM
what kind of plane are you bumping your "productive part" around in hitech? got pics?
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Post by: SaburoS on April 09, 2004, 04:38:57 PM
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
My point exactly SaburoS


Doh! Maybe I should of actually read your post!!! :)
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Post by: cpxxx on April 09, 2004, 04:57:54 PM
Same thing happened to me in a Pitts only I was wearing a helmet and didn't feel it. But I wrenched my shoulder and was in pain for weeks afterward. :(  I wasn't flying it at that point so was taken by surprise.  Took him by surprise though, when I fell out of a roll into a spin. :cool:

Aerobatics is like being beaten up sometimes, sore heads and pulled muscles. :lol

Sadly only flying boring old 172's and 150's lately. sigh!!!!

PERK THE RV8!!
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Post by: mjolnir on April 09, 2004, 07:56:52 PM
Ahem, HT?  Might I suggest you get yourself a plane with a 5 point harness, ejection seat, and parachute?  Perhaps something with a 720º/second roll rate? (http://www.afrc.af.mil/hq/pa/gallery/15july02/071502-05highres.htm)   We don't need you bumping your nugget off the canopy too many times.
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Post by: ravells on April 09, 2004, 08:00:25 PM
Were you using IR track at the time?

Gosh...I feel like I'm talking to God!

Ravs
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Post by: Sixpence on April 09, 2004, 08:03:39 PM
Darwin in the making?


Man, I would hate to have to go back to fighter ace.
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Post by: ravells on April 09, 2004, 08:11:04 PM
Play IL-2 :D

Ravs
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Post by: AKWeav on April 09, 2004, 11:14:52 PM
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When attempting 4 point roll at 180 knots in an RV. And on the first knife edge after the 90 deg roll if you stomp rudder very quickly . Your head meets the canopy realy hard.


Well it seemed to have fixed your spelling at any rate. :D
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Post by: rpm on April 09, 2004, 11:45:27 PM
Never done a 4-Point roll, but got my Dad's Winnebago past VNE once. ;)
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Post by: Lazerus on April 10, 2004, 02:22:45 AM
Did a 4 point roll in an '85 S-10 one time. Into the marsh off a causeway luckily...



That hurt too:eek:
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Post by: bigsky on April 10, 2004, 02:52:44 AM
any dolt could make any airplane fly. but someone who can put 59 tons of M1A1 abrams main battle tank in the air is something special. im not impressed. :D
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Post by: Flossy on April 10, 2004, 03:44:27 AM
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Originally posted by AKWeav
Well it seemed to have fixed your spelling at any rate. :D
"realy"?  :)  

Take care, HiTech!   :aok
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Post by: BGBMAW on April 10, 2004, 04:23:31 AM
olol winnebago NVE...lololo

btw...HT...i suppose u wre the guy "escorted" by f-16s from President Bush's air space..

and how the hell dont you know that airspace??lol


and 1 more btw..his speeeling might be alright...but did you guys notice his sentance structure..??

"Found out what somthing new today"?...lolol


Love
BiGB

xoxo

P.s...nOW GET BACK TO MY TOD!!!!! dammit:)
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Post by: Nilsen on April 10, 2004, 04:43:00 AM
oh was that hitech BGB ? :D

fyi hitech... flying in the real world is not like in MA... when you go beyond the map there is still more land to explore but some of that land may be off limits to civilian planes.

someone get him that gps on the bribe list please! oh... and a helmet just incase it happens again

:)
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Post by: AKWeav on April 10, 2004, 09:30:56 AM
Think Flossy, only one error.:D