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Title: Bouncing Nose Loop = Explosion
Post by: Yeager on July 10, 2002, 08:15:43 AM

Landed a F4F last night real fine.  Came in slow, flaps out, but was a little off center so I used left rudder to straighten out.  Over corrected and tapped right brake just a smidge probably going about 50 true.  Slowed some more but managed to nose over very slowely.  Usually she settles back done but for whatever reason this bird kept going.  This is fine, bend over, scrape prop and either stay tail up or fall back down hard on tail but Noooooo!  

Fell all the way over and when canopy hits the runway this damned airplane bounced about 100 feet up flip-flopping in the air and came back down for the explosive kill.  Gawd if it wasnt so funny it would really suck.  FMs have some quirks, thats for sure.

Also, when landing why does the tail stay up stiff in the wind until your at about 15 TAS then come down hard?

Title: Bouncing Nose Loop = Explosion
Post by: Dux on July 10, 2002, 11:43:30 AM

You must have ran over the Pinball Mode power-up. :)

Title: Bouncing Nose Loop = Explosion
Post by: MoonJuice on July 10, 2002, 12:45:17 PM

Forgot to tell you, when you flip over on the canopy in a situation like this....

What ever you DO NOT PULL THE EJECT LEVEL!

That's rocket powered assisted ejection seats hurt!

Title: Re: Bouncing Nose Loop = Explosion
Post by: mason22 on July 10, 2002, 01:38:07 PM

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Originally posted by Yeager


Also, when landing why does the tail stay up stiff in the wind until your at about 15 TAS then come down hard?

you try not using the brakes as strong (just lightly tapping them instead)?

or, what i do is give the elev. some back pressure to keep the tail on the ground, then apply brakes by tapping vs. holding them down.

my $.02