Home Depot Aviation Department

[alfadog]

1.28 G failure base to final....guess he wasn't flying smoothly enough....

Not a matter of smoothness, simply a matter of bank angle. It takes only about 38 degrees of bank to load the wing to 1.28 G and those calculations of the strength of his wing are only estimates. He could easily have failed at considerably less than 30 degrees of bank.

 

[wanttaja]

Not a matter of smoothness, simply a matter of bank angle. It takes only about 38 degrees of bank to load the wing to 1.28 G and those calculations of the strength of his wing are only estimates. He could easily have failed at considerably less than 30 degrees of bank.

Accoring to the video, the plane had five successful flights prior to the fatal one. Kind of surprising that it hadn't pulled more than 1.28 Gs prior.

Ron Wanttaja

 

[alfadog]

Accoring to the video, the plane had five successful flights prior to the fatal one. Kind of surprising that it hadn't pulled more than 1.28 Gs prior.

Ron Wanttaja

Hard landing, fuel leak, jumping up and down on airplane probably all weakened the spar.

 

[N801BH]

Accoring to the video, the plane had five successful flights prior to the fatal one. Kind of surprising that it hadn't pulled more than 1.28 Gs prior.

Ron Wanttaja

Agreed... Even a "firm" pull at rotation speed will cause a 1.28G load.. There are so many things wrong with the entire plane... Amazingly, it didn't burn after the crash.