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Title: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: The Fugitive on February 18, 2009, 02:17:14 PM: OK heres another one. This one on the big side for a file size, but its short and sweet to the point.

Check out the "Split S". (http://webpages.charter.net/maddogjoe/cobra/splits.htm)
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Crousader on February 18, 2009, 06:14:32 PM: Nicely done! :aok
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Ghosth on February 19, 2009, 06:09:22 AM: Great work as always!

BTW I've been using your other films at least once a day.
Get some kid that doesn't want to read, direct them to the location, 10 -20 min later he's back
and he has a better idea of what he's doing.

Major Kudu's Fugitive! <S>
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Obie303 on February 19, 2009, 07:43:29 AM: WTG Fugi!

FUGITIVE FOR PRESIDENT! :D
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: apcampbell on February 19, 2009, 10:36:52 PM: Absoultey amazing. The 353rd definately will use these films for our new pilots! My question for you is, will you make these available to everyone once you complete your presentations?

:rock
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Ghosth on February 20, 2009, 06:20:32 AM: http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/files.htm (http://trainers.hitechcreations.com/files/files.htm)

Are we missing any fugitive?

Still waiting to see Dot commands also btw.
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: The Fugitive on February 20, 2009, 06:53:50 AM: Thanks guys, Ghosth, Murdr has this one, and one on how to use the radio to add to the trainers site.

......and whats this about dot commands??? what are those? :devil
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: ImADot on February 20, 2009, 08:23:48 AM: Quote from: The Fugitive on February 20, 2009, 06:53:50 AM
......and whats this about dot commands??? what are those? :devil

Dot commands you to bring troops.
Dot commands you to fly fighter cap.
Dot commands you to clean my plane.
:D
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Anaxogoras on February 20, 2009, 08:30:14 AM: Nice job! Did you lower your throttle in that split-s? You might want to mention that in the audio commentary.

Again, I hope you've at least received a month or two of subscriptions fees for these great tutorials. :aok
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: CAP1 on February 20, 2009, 02:30:21 PM: Quote from: ImADot on February 20, 2009, 08:23:48 AM
Dot commands you to bring troops.
Dot commands you to fly fighter cap.
Dot commands you to clean my plane.
:D
:rofl :aok :rofl
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: The Fugitive on February 20, 2009, 03:03:25 PM: Quote from: ImADot on February 20, 2009, 08:23:48 AM
Dot commands you to bring troops.
Dot commands you to fly fighter cap.
Dot commands you to clean my plane.
:D

OK, before anyone gets confused, heres how they really work !

Aces High Dot Commands (http://webpages.charter.net/maddogjoe/cobra/dot_commands.htm).
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Traveler on February 21, 2009, 04:18:47 PM: Nicely done. You got to wonder why they called it the “Split S” and not the "C" manuver ?
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: CAP1 on February 21, 2009, 04:22:48 PM: dude.......very excellent!!

question though? when i look at the film viewer, none of the controls inside move. how'd you do that?
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: The Fugitive on February 21, 2009, 06:47:31 PM: Quote from: Traveler on February 21, 2009, 04:18:47 PM
Nicely done. You got to wonder why they called it the “Split S” and not the "C" manuver ?

I had heard a story that it can from a British saying, some one called it a "split arse" because of the way it makes your butt feel as the "G" forces spit it around the seat :)

Quote from: CAP1 on February 21, 2009, 04:22:48 PM
dude.......very excellent!!

question though? when i look at the film viewer, none of the controls inside move. how'd you do that?

I cheat :D I ran fraps and did the maneuver a second time, so the stick movement is live, while the other two are from the film.
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Traveler on February 21, 2009, 10:39:34 PM: Quote from: The Fugitive on February 21, 2009, 06:47:31 PM
I had heard a story that it can from a British saying, some one called it a "split arse" because of the way it makes your butt feel as the "G" forces spit it around the seat :)

I cheat :D I ran fraps and did the maneuver a second time, so the stick movement is live, while the other two are from the film.

I do remember an explanation that an old barnstormer by the name of Cecil Coffren once told me. Cecil explained that the Split S was a maneuver that the early Mail carrier pilots used to drop down through cloud cover through a vertical column of air . Attempting to stay over a range station in bad weather to get to an airport. They used two different maneuvers one was the split S and the second was a Spin. The Spin was actually the preferred method if they were trying to get down through an overcast. The split S was used if they found a hole in the ceiling. The flew split S’s back to back, staying in a vertical column.

Cecil was 74 in 1970 when I flew for him, towing banners over the beaches of New Jersey and New York. He flew Mail in the late 20’s and was a sky writer in the 50 & 60’s If you ever saw the beginning of Sesame Street. Cecil Coffren did the Sky Writing for the opening of that show. Not the sky typing that is sometimes done today by 5 aircraft flying in formation but actually written in script by one single aircraft, forming one letter at a time. It’s not an easy task. The letters have to be formed one at a time, joined like the written word, but also on an angle of 45 degrees so that people on the ground can read them.
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: CAP1 on February 22, 2009, 10:20:05 AM: Quote from: The Fugitive on February 21, 2009, 06:47:31 PM
I had heard a story that it can from a British saying, some one called it a "split arse" because of the way it makes your butt feel as the "G" forces spit it around the seat :)

I cheat :D I ran fraps and did the maneuver a second time, so the stick movement is live, while the other two are from the film.
aaahh......... :aok

guess i'm gonna hafta try that.
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: Delirium on March 03, 2009, 01:09:47 AM: Fugitive, would you mind if I used your concept to make a few short clips to help some of my P38 students?
Title: Re: Training Tutorial.... "The Split S"
Post by: The Fugitive on March 03, 2009, 07:47:39 AM: Not at all Del. Just buy me a couple beers the next time I fly through CT :D