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I get that everyone has different tastes and that some of the carbon monoplane acts are boring and monotonous but a few of those guys at the top level display extremely high skill and precision. I also loved watching John Mohr fly his Stearman on the deck, but the actual maneuvers he was doing...

Absolutely, I guess you've never flown a plane with tons of adverse yaw?

I assume you're referring to the use of ailerons because of yaw/roll coupling, but if the wings are level it's not a slip - even if the ailerons are used. So I give you that it may not be rudder alone, but it's also not the same thing as what we do in GA aircraft where the bank angle of the slip...

I'm not an airline pilot but have seen plenty of airliners straight kick it out without getting a wing down. Not much clearance on lots of them.

It's funny to me pilots even argue over the difference between crabbing and slipping down final when in the end you're still transitioning to a slip before the wheels touch. Some people slip down the whole approach, some transition to a slip on short final, some transition over the fence, some...

Agree with everything you wrote, just wanted to mention that I think lots of newbies get confused by these "crab and kick" discussions because those who advocate crabbing down final are actually "crab and slipping" not crab and pure kicking. A minority of people (who fly trikes or heavies)...

I'm confused - are you asking about tracking the runway for the entire final approach, or just the last moments of a x-wind landing where you must align the airplane with no drift for touchdown? I've never heard of anyone flying all the way down a visual final using only the rudder to maintain...

Not really relevant to this thread, but the FAR limiting aerobatics to min. 1,500' AGL still does apply in the middle of the desert. People also misunderstand airshow "waivers". Having an aerobatic "waiver" does not mean you are personally exempt from the min. altitude FAR. It means the FAA has...

Always liked the Hatz, came close to buying an OSH winning Classic some years ago. Regarding loops and roundness, they are very hard to self-critique, but one clue you can use from inside the cockpit (or cockpit video review) is pitch rate through the entire figure. Lets say you enter a loop at...

Well the thing is that most pilots who fly any sort of acro don't care about flying loops that are exactly round, nor would they even have any idea how close they got to it unless they have had a significant amount of ground coaching and practice with someone knowledgeable on the ground with a...

No, for example an aerobatic airplane with a metal wing spar rated for standard +6/-3G is not allowed to have the wing spar permanently bend at 6G. Ultimate load (+9G) does not necessarily mean that's where things actually break, it's the territory where permanent deformation (damage) may begin...

Well clearly it's been a while for you and there are things you're not remembering correctly. It just won't happen at 3G in a 7ECA...it just ain't got the juice. I've seen it countless times. Bring your 7ECA to a contest, fly the beginner category and you'll see the scores you get on a 3G loop...

Sorry but you're flat wrong. Think about the size of the radius of the flight path at your initial entry speed at 3G. Then think about the size of the radius on top at zero indicated without the engine sputtering. The radius on top will be a fraction of the size of the initial radius on the...

No. I've flown a bunch of different round wing and flat wing Pitts' and there's little difference in pitch sensitivity. That has much more to do with individual aircraft differences such as angle valve vs. parallel valve motor, propeller type, and CG location. Not much to do with the airfoil...

The Eagle is rated for +6/-3G operational load. +9G is ultimate load where things may start to bend. Glad you're interested in aviation and acro. The Eagle has virtually the same overall performance as the 4-cylinder Pitts S-2A, but was designed for improved ergos. It has less performance than...

There is nothing wrong with pulling 6Gs in a Pitts. You don't sound like a Pitts pilot who does acro, so I'll mention that there are many maneuvers when "done right" need a fair amount of G in order to make them look good and manage the energy properly. Many figures done well are definitely...

Don't believe any hangar tales about Clipped wing Cubs being some amazing acro performance upgrade. They roll about 10% faster than standard J-3s, but clipping those wings sucks quite a bit more than that out of take off, landing, and climb performance. That being said, I did enjoy my time with...

The first question isn't really relevant since airplanes are generally designed from the ground up with either one wing or two. It's not as if (in general) there are monowing airplanes that have alternate versions as a biplane. There is huge variation in stall/landing speeds among biplanes, same...

Not necessarily. Depends on the airplane and how much rudder you're holding. I've flown airplanes that just naturally want to drop the left wing during a power on stall even after holding sufficient right rudder before the stall. In this case you have to add MORE right rudder to keep the wings...

Yeah uncontrolled or not, it still answers the OP's question.