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 Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: VG Performance Video: Stalls, Slow Flight, Turns, Lan |
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My boo boo. I related the photos you posted of Fergy ribs to the ribs and wing panels on your aircraft.
To spin my Kolbs, I pull the nose up high with power at idle, full left or right rudder, and full aft stick just as it stalls. Hold it until you are ready to recover. Usually, relaxing the controls will recover the aircraft.
My original FS would only spin one half turn at idle. It would recover with the controls crossed up and locked. During some experimentation doing engine off aerobatics, I did a spin. The little FS spun up like a top.
The MKIII loses a lot more altitude than the FS. That was quite a surprise first time I spun it.
One will have to work at getting a Kolb into an unintentional spin. However, I am sure there are those out there that can probably get themselves into one. 
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So I gotta turn my engine off to do one??
I watched Rett Radford (Aubrey's son) do it from 1500 ft down to 200 ft over
the Air Acres airstrip - cutting a toilet paper roll all the way down & then turn straight down the runway.
He said there was no G load on the wings & it was safer then a loop.
Of course, I watched him do loops & hammerheads too.
Belive it or not, I watch him throw out a bag of flower at the top of a loop - do a
loop & hit the bag at the bottom of the loop. ...but I'm guessing that was just luck. The good ole days.
Also his Dad died doing the same stuff in a 5 rib Firestar at an Airshow. Overloaded etc. but still?
I've never done a loop on purpose. [quote][b]
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