Been re-reading 'Stick and Rudder' (Langewiesche) from the '40's and his point and focus is "Angle of Attack" big time. Maybe 'stalls' are avoidable, but should be practiced. I found the book to be helpful as an 'attitude adjustment"; Artful flying is okay too.
Mark W N952MW (res) -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 7:09 AM To: KRnet Subject: Re: KR> Stalls "Joe" wrote: Anybody have a "in the cockpit" video of a KR2/KR2S in a full stall? I don't have a video, but I've got one "full power full stall" permanently fried into my brain. Left wing drops, plane drops and rolls inverted, accelerates toward the ground at an incredible rate, everything in the plane sticks to the top of the canopy and ends up in the tail. Fortunately I was at about 5000' when I started. This was early in my 40 hour test phase, and I didn't realize the implications of a full power "accelerated" stall. I was watching the airspeed indicator, rather than the ball on the turn and bank indicator, which was a real mistake. I don't know how many g's I pulled getting out of that dive, but losing the wings certainly occured to me in the middle of all that. That's when I bought the g-meter. I'm not trying to say that a KR is any more dangerous than any other plane. I'm only writing this so others that are as inexperienced as I was will take full-power stalls more seriously than I did. Why would you even need to know how and at what speed it stalls at full power? Consider too steep a climbout on takeoff and you'll understand. Now I have a very healthy respect for that flight regime, and I avoid the possibility at all costs. I guess that doesn't help you out with a video though.... Mark Langford ML "at" N56ML.com website www.n56ml.com _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
