tommorrow I am mostly Flying

Flying.

whilst you all bugger off to the eosm, I have a morning flight arranged
in a four seater. What a month! Within two weeks I will have been
gliding and flying in a powered plane - both firsts [1]

uh-ho at thios rate, I might end up parachuting after all....

[1] excluding airliners

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

Ye, Lucky bastard ye.

Ask if you can do a loop (plane equivalent of a wheelie) ;-D

 

Engine failure is such a bitch.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6? DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19

 

Inverted spin (plane equivalent of licking smack off a monkey's eyeball)

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Platypus
VN800 Drifter, R80RT
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

 

Heh, too true..

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

[snip]


Not many bikes are trick rated, but it is fun trying.

I have heard, somewhere, that it is possible to barrel roll passenger
aircraft so long as positive G is maintained on the wing.

 

You are quite right, the plane was not aerobatic rated. However, at
Sywell, where we flew from, there was an aerobatic competition in
progress. f*ck me! I didn't know planes could *do* that!

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

If a wheel comes off or buckles, you prolly won't die. If the wing folds, or
breaks....
Still great fun having a little play though ;o)

Most light planes can be barrel rolled reasonably safely. you should be able
to keep it at less than 1.5 g! The 2 main reasons for keeping pos G is that,
again, most light planes, even some that are cleared for aero's, don't have
an inverted fuel system. thus the fuel goes neg G in the carb and the engine
quits PDQ! The other reason, and prolly the most sensible to avoid neg G
for, is that the wings are stressed for pos G, and not neg.
Helicopter rotor blades are the same. When positioning the rotors they
should always be pushed up, on not pulled down.