Tom-D
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It sure looks like it. Stick was tied back with the seatbelts, notice the angle on the elevator. Good strong wind from the front with an LSA, this could happen!
Presumably the drag force is small relative to the lift force as long as the plane has a reasonable angle of attack. As the plane lofts, the nose rises, the angle of attack increases, lift decreases and induced drag increases.Why wouldn't the drag component simply cause the aircraft to be blown backwards as soon as it leaves the ground?
As soon as the drag over comes the friction of the tires on the ground the aircraft should start moving rearward. yet it does not "Twice"
Watch a leaf, as soon as it is off the ground, it moves horizontally.
The more lift you have, the more drag you have, that aircraft should have started to move horizontally as soon as the wheels lost contact with the ground.
It looks real enough, but WHY was there a camera just magically shooting THAT plane at THAT time?
security cam?It looks real enough, but WHY was there a camera just magically shooting THAT plane at THAT time?
That plane has a lot more inertial forces to overcome than a leaf.
For the same wind force, an object with a large mass will accelerate much slower than an object with little mass.
Assuming it's real....here's a bigger question.....for insurance puproses, does that classify as 'aircraft in motion'???
Hmmm, interesting. Hard to see, but it does look like the wings are tied down. Looks like the left tie-down breaks first, the left wing rises up, then the right tie-down breaks and the right wing rises up and then the plane begins moving backwards.... Also, that airplane was indeed actually tied down (with ropes) and may explain why it doesn't go backwards right away...
This is the same video that I posted about in this thread three days ago:
http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45602
The original LiveLeak page indicates the airplane was in Gelendzhik, Russia. The Youtube copy doesn't appear to provide that basic information.
Sorry Jim I didn't see it..
No problem at all, since I've made the same sort of posting mistake and need to reserve the right to do it again!
Anyway, I'm pretty sure the video is real and probably not a staged event. Looks like too an nice airplane to wreck for a 30 second video. Only question is whether the wind is natural or from another aircraft doing a run-up.
Looked like it was a security camera pointed someplace- I suspect no one was watching the camera when the incident happened and therefore didn't point it to see where the plane went. I suspect the tape was reviewed after the owner came back and asked WTF happened to my plane?!We don't see the aircraft being wrecked, or did I miss some thing again?
I think it is a model, on a string or sumptin.