7/2/01 6:26:33 PM, "Mark Hammons" <astaire@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> See http://www4.ncsu.edu/~caltino/migcrash.htm
>> >
>> >Two crashes and two ejections! Some plane, some pilot!
>>
>> yea.... say, what's a high alpha pass? and how did the plane get so nose
>> down? i mean, only one
>engine failed right? up the other, trim the tail,
>> and go for emer. landing. if it wasn't an eject, i would suspect he was
>> doing a "nose down" cobra
>maneuvre (if they even do it nose down, i
>> know they normally do it nose up)
>Alpha is the angle between the the plane's nose and its forward velocity
>vector.
oh, angle of attack. i knew gary had once corrected me about that, but in
context (hi alpha pass =? sharply angled pass?)
>The right engine went out. There wasn't enough control authority on the
>rudders to compensate for the yaw induced by the left engine. The plane
>slowly yawed the the right and had its nose point downward. That
>pilot probably would not have survivied if he had waited another 1/2
>second to get out.
gotcha.
>The video of this is very cool -- I remember seeing on TV several times.
>I bet its on the web somewhere.
so what does the pilot do for aliving now? ;)
/Acer V
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