Dudley Henriques wrote:
"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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"Newps" wrote in message
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I respect your right to disagree :-)
But will you respect it in the morning?

We used T6's quite often in my operation and I've got a ton of time in the
airplane. It's not the cleanest thing in town aerodynamically by a long shot
:-)) Although it's obviously true you can put the tires of a T6 ( and other
airplanes as well from what I hear) in the water as these guys are doing, no
matter what speed you would be using to plane the tires, if you had an
engine problem during the run with the tires in the water, I'd be willing to
bet the ranch the aircraft would settle in so fast due to parasite drag that
you would cartwheel it in for sure.
The T6 is a drag queen and slows down REAL fast when the power comes back.
Of course this is just my personal read on this stunt. The guys doing it are
top sticks and I'm sure know the risks involved. If I'm not mistaken, one of
them, Scully Levin, is a 20K plus driver with literally a ton of experience
flying just about anything with wings on it.

I suspect it also depends a fair bit on what the pitch change is with
power change in the T6. I'm assuming as with most conventional
airplanes that the loss of propwash on the tail would likely also cause
a nearly immediate pitch down which only complicates the problem with
speed loss due to the high drag of the airplane.

Matt