"Viperdoc" wrote in
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Looking at the Extra, it looked like his tumbles were done pretty low.
Most of the ones I've seen and tried are some variations of outside
snap inputs, and you generally end up with zero airspeed at full
power. If you watch the pros at an airshow, they tend to do snaps and
tumbles at a reasonable altitude, and only rolling stuff at the bottom
of looping figures down low.

It looks like he kind of was in a position of low kinetic energy
(airspeed), and low potential energy (low altitude). It's hard to
recover from that combination.

Yeah, that one was pretty obvious. Not a lot of speed and I'd say he
probably didn't even have a handle on his altitude at that stage. Another
case of ignoring gates or letting the proceedings get too far ahead of you
to keep up.

By the way, WTF is a tumble? Is that what you call those tight little
barrel rolls that are all the rage these days or are you talking about a
lomcevok?


As someone pointed out to me earlier via e-mail, those you tube comments
make usenet look positively educational!


Bertie