"Morgans" wrote in
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"ABLE_1" wrote

But as I recall the discussion at the time of the RC crash it was due
to the "dreaded downwind turn" that plagues some RC pilots at times.

But no matter the real reason the outcome is the same.

Oh no! The dreaded downwind turn!!!

Of course, this is a subject that has been possible the most discussed
of any subject. I tend to go with the aerodynamicist that says that a
downwind turn problem is impossible to be a problem.

I can believe there will be a problem if the pilot does not correctly
keep his speed up when he turns downwind, but if a plane was flying
when it started the turn, and the same airspeed is maintained, there
will not be a crash.

Indeed, the plane's frame of reference is the atmosphere, not the ground.
Unless it runs into some hellacious shear, the airspeed will not change in
the turn any more than it would in a pefectly static air mass.

Kind of like the plane taking off from a conveyor belt myth that was so
solidly busted on 'Mythbusters'...

Bob ^,,^