[AlaskaRC] Crash at Reno Air Races

[Marty Hall]

One thing I just read on the KOLO TV web site said he was trying to avoid the stands. The death toll seems to have come to 3 which good. Shame it wasn't 'none'.

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On Sep 17, 2011, at 8:36, bob at jetmodeler.com wrote:

> I don't recall if it's a servo tab or a trim tab...or both.
> 
> Another photo shows the tail wheel extended just before the crash.  The tail wheel was retracted during the race (I saw this in another video), which could mean a number of things...but it is definitely not normal.
> 
> Here's the photo.
> http://i.imgur.com/QuAnm.jpg
> .
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Hall [mailto:mjhall at alaskarcs.com]
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 08:25 AM
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> 
> I don't remember... Is that a flying tab or a trim tab ? If it's a flying tab your probably. If you could get control back, you'd need a lot more altitude than he had.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Sep 16, 2011, at 22:56, bob at jetmodeler.com wrote:
> 
>> This is a close up of the tail of the P-51 as it approached the high end of its arc during the crash sequence.
>> 
>> http://media.graytvinc.com/images/plane+enlarged.jpg
>> 
>> At the speed he was traveling, there is no way that the pilot could overcome the adverse elevator forces involved with the loss of the trim tab.
>> 
>> <images.jpeg>
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