Swift crash

On Sep 15, 8:49*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
The Daily Mail has several glider related articles.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/sear...hPhrase=Glider

Waynehttp://www.soaridaho.com

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histrionics, with useful descriptions and details, or those that
capture something special, including blogs.

The site has RSS feeds and code to embed into a web site. See bottom
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occasionally capture a duplicate or off topic post.

Frank 'SkySlicer' Whiteley

I used to subscribe to RSS feed to receive every glider related news
around the world. I unssubscribed after few month as I was getting
depressed almost on a daily basis :-(

Ramy



On Sep 15, 10:28*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Sep 15, 8:49*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote: The Daily Mail has several glider related articles.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/sear...hPhrase=Glider

Waynehttp://www.soaridaho.com

http://www.topix.net/hobbies/gliding

I try to link to most intelligent articles here. *That is, without
histrionics, with useful descriptions and details, or those that
capture something special, including blogs.

The site has RSS feeds and code to embed into a web site. * See bottom
left ofwww.coloradosoaring.orgfor an example. *The site 'spiders'
occasionally capture a duplicate or off topic post.

Frank 'SkySlicer' Whiteley

On Sep 14, 6:43*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
Everything went right after everything went wrong

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-air-crash-pi...

Very interesting observation if you look at the photos you'll notice
the first one impact is about 15-20' in front of the line and the last
one is behind the line on the runway. How is the Swift moving
backwards during the impact sequence?

At 10:16 16 September 2010, glidergeek wrote:
On Sep 14, 6:43=A0am, Frank Whiteley wrote:
Everything went right after everything went wrong


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-air-crash-pi...

Very interesting observation if you look at the photos you'll notice
the first one impact is about 15-20' in front of the line and the last
one is behind the line on the runway. How is the Swift moving
backwards during the impact sequence?



It bounced, its not unusual for a glider to bounce if it hits wing tip
first. That takes a lot of the energy out of the fuselage impact; that
energy is then unleashed backwards or sideways. As well as his SCI he was
very lucky not to have severe ankle injuries.

I wish him well and a speedy recovery.

Dave

Dave Stewart wrote:
It bounced, its not unusual for a glider to bounce if it hits wing tip
first.

Luckily I have too little experience to know what is "ususal" or
"unusual" when a glider hits wing tip first.

On Sep 16, 11:16*am, glidergeek wrote:
On Sep 14, 6:43*am, Frank Whiteley wrote:

Everything went right after everything went wrong

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...m-air-crash-pi...

Very interesting observation if you look at the photos you'll notice
the first one impact is about 15-20' in front of the line and the last
one is behind the line on the runway. How is the Swift moving
backwards during the impact sequence?

Some years ago one of my syndicate partners spun our glider in from a
slow autotow launch, with fatal consequences. That impacted nose down
on the runway and bounced several metres backwards. It was a wooden
glider and there was very little left of the cockpit forward of the
leading edge of the wing.

Derek C