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Dumb question maybe re Stall Turn
That's not a stall turn, or a tail slide, that's the old gyro-hang
you're on about there. Both the stall turn and the tailslide could of course be stopped just before the turn or the slide by doing the hang. Eventually, and I mean eventually, the plane might start to spin, once the torque had overcome the intertia, but as Orval says it depends on the weight of the plane and the power output of the engine, which for the gyro-hang is quite low (or you'd just climb). You could keep it up for maybe a minute without too many problems. Hope that answers your question! On Nov 18, 6:06*pm, Surreyrider wrote: Need someone to settle an argument. I do not fly, so your answers need to be in laymans terms and hopefully put simply. I've occasionally watched aerobatic displays and seen a maneouver called a stall turn. *Now, I more or less understand how this works, but there comes a point, just before the aircraft "turns around" where it is momentarily stationary in space, pointing directly to the sky.. Impressive stuff. *Now, here's the crux: *My mate reckons the pilot could hold the aircraft in this "head-up" attitude almost indefinately as the prop is acting like a helicopter's rotor and it could effectively hover in this attitude. *I, however, maintain that the aircraft would begin to spin on it's axis if held in this attitude.for more than a second or two. Can anybody tell me who is correct? Thanks all, Roy |
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