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![]() guys if you stall your aircraft with power on what does it do? are there any situations where a T18 will do other than a descending dive after a stall? also what aerofoil was used on your aircraft? nothing sinister about this. we suffered a double fatality the other day. there is a lot of utter nonsense floating around about this but a perusal of a video take during the last minutes suggests that the aircraft flipped over into a loop for some reason,the video then shows that it rolled inverted during recovery and then made a ballistic descent to the impact site. my interpretation is that the aircraft stalled, either with power on or as a result of recovery efforts, flipped over backwards then fell out into a stalled loop, one wing unstalled causing the aircraft to roll inverted, then when inverted stalled again. from there in a stable inverted stalled condition the aircraft curved down in a ballistic trajectory until the planetary collision. I'm reasonably certain that I can explain the flight behaviour in sound aerodynamic terms but I'm unsure of the initial stall behaviour. the comment that the T18 can flip over onto it's back comes from two T18 owners. are their aircraft typical or atypical? I'd appreciate any first hand comment from T18 pilots. Stealth Pilot |
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