Accident report on the midair at Tenino

Bela P. Havasreti wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:58:32 -0700, "C J Campbell"
wrote:
off, you don't lose your nose gear!) At the same time, losing all that
weight might improve your glide significantly.

No, less weight does not significantly improve glide
performance, it just shifts your best glide to a lower
speed range. (It will improve your glide downwind
though, and make it worse into wind)

More important however would be the aerodynamic shape of
whatever was left of the nose after having prop, engine and
part of the cowling fall off. It is not too bold a bet to
say the aerodynamic characteristics will have been clearly
worse after the damage than before, thus more drag and
worse glide.

CV