[AlaskaRC] Crash at Reno Air Races

Douglas Leamon yukonav8r at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 09:04:53 AKDT 2011


This is just a guess….if the trim tab failed and set up a sever flutter, the resulting structural loads could created other failures in rapid succession, which may have included a failure or inadvertent release of the tail wheel uplock mechanism. Regardless the entire event happened in a matter of seconds. 

 

Do you remember the loss of the aileron counter weight on the DeHavilland Beaver out of Talkeetna? The flutter event only lasted a few seconds before the pilot got the aircraft under control. The damage was so severe, the aircraft was considered a hull loss after it was inspected. 

 

Doug Leamon

 

From: alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org [mailto:alaskarc-bounces at lists.alaskarc.org] On Behalf Of bob at jetmodeler.com
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 8:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] Crash at Reno Air Races

 

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  The tail wheel was retracted during the race (I saw this in another video), which could mean a number of things...but it is definitely not normal.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
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Hall [mailto:mjhall at alaskarcs.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 08:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [AlaskaRC] Crash at Reno Air Races


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.

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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.

	

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