FPK1
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Landed and flipped. No injuries. N819KS Cessna 172... Looks like once around the pattern then woops!
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Small plane flips at SMO
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That takes skill!
Kenny Phillips
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When I tried to do that, I just got the wingtip and the prop, couldn't get it to go all the way.Landed and flipped. No injuries. N819KS Cessna 172... Looks like once around the pattern then woops!
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I've heard it's easier in a tailwheel plane ...
Sounds like heavy nose wheel braking. I once did the same thing on a three wheeler back in 1983.
Lon33
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How would that happen? I don’t think that kind of plane has a brake on the nose wheel. Am I wrong about that, or did I not understand that you were making a joke?
Bacho
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whoosh!
I was making a joke, but in fact there are aircraft built with nose wheel braking. The Me-262 is one example. Notice the brake line in the photo below.
Lon33
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Good. Glad to hear it. But that still leaves the question: how and why did the plane pitch forward, tail over nose?
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PIO?
I wondered that, but it seems like a PIO that resulted in a nose over would include a nose wheel collapse as well, but maybe those Cessna nose wheels are more stout than I'm giving them credit for.
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The strut is strong enough to wrinkle the firewall.
