Ok, I'd count him towards the 5% then. So,he planned to get into air show flying later this year
it's not even July yet, and the count is four.
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Ok, I'd count him towards the 5% then. So,he planned to get into air show flying later this year
Steen Skybolt, N619PD: Fatal accident occurred June 28, 2014 in Midlothian, Texas
NTSB Identification: CEN14FA325
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Saturday, June 28, 2014 in Midlothian, TX
Aircraft: DOYLE JAMES E SKYBOLT, registration: N619PD
Injuries: 1 Fatal.
This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. Any errors in this report will be corrected when the final report has been completed. NTSB investigators either traveled in support of this investigation or conducted a significant amount of investigative work without any travel, and used data obtained from various sources to prepare this aircraft accident report.
On June 28, 2014, about 1625 central daylight time, a Skybolt experimental airplane, N619PD, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain just west of the Mid-Way Regional Airport (KJWY), Midlothian/Waxahachie, Texas. The commercial pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by a private individual under the provisions of 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a personal flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the flight, which operated without a flight plan. The local flight originated approximately 1600.
According to one witness, the pilot was performing aerobatic maneuvers within the designated aerobatic box. The pilot had just completed a shoulder roll and was maneuvering when the airplane entered a flat, inverted spin between 1,000 and 1,500 feet above ground level (agl). During the spin, the nose of the airplane appeared to drop as if the pilot was attempting to recover from the flat portion of the spin. Between 300 and 500 feet agl, the rotation stopped momentarily and then continued until the airplane impacted the ground.
The airplane came to rest, inverted, to the west of runway 18. The main wreckage included both bi-wing assemblies, the engine and propeller assembly, the fuselage, and the empennage. All components were located at the impact site.
Everyone around me is always in a tremendousStalled Aerobatic Maneuvers
Now let’s look at the other category of aerobatic maneuvers, which I refer to as “out of control” maneuvers because they involve exceeding the stalling angle of attack of the wing.
Until you are completely comfortable recovering from any spin, you should NOT fly out of control maneuvers down low, because you are betting your life that you will be lucky.
Again, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of lots of experience and familiarity and skill before you start doing aerobatics down low. Please don’t hurry, and kill yourself.
What was the cause of the Cabanas accident? The Mexicans are unlikely to publish a report.Colonel Sanders wrote: they often die during aerobatics NOT
at airshows (Paul Lopez, Freddy Cabanas) which
you don't count towards the 5%, but they are still
dead - or even non-aerobatic
That is awesome to read, the rescued part. I wonder what things he had to help out in being found. Mirror, personal locator transmitter, flares, strobe light, sat phone? Maybe nothing but the wreckage and some good spotters. Nice to see anyway.karmutzen wrote: On the good news side Jurgis Kairys bailed out of his Su-26 over the Agean Sea halfway between Kavala and Athens. Engine quit an hour into his flight at 3000'. He tied himself to some wreckage and prepared to swim all night to an island, but a SAR helicopter found him about 3 hours later.
Footage of the water landing from the side shows the canopy fully slid back before touchdown, and footage of it going over shows the canopy fully closed... There is no lock when the canopy is open, so it's likely that it slammed shut as soon as it touched the water.karmutzen wrote:Another one in Italy. Formation flight midair. One made it one didn't. Interesting footage of flipping a plane landing on water and then wondering how you're going to get out.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/01/spectator ... w-5224177/
It's hard to tell exactly from the camera angle, but it looks to me like it was a flat manoeuver, not a split S or Cuban. Just a "tight turn away from the crowd" that pulled too much G and initiated a snap.karmutzen wrote:Found some footage of the Gnat. http://youtu.be/j-ar0KCMHGo. Not such a mystery, split-s (or reverse Cuban) too low, not enough pitch up at initiation, possibly due to lower ceiling. Subsequent tight pull half snapped him around into the ground. RIP, he left a young family behind.