Awe Scat

That was a hard impact... Wonder how many discs he popped in his spine...

denny-o
 
That looks like a hard plane to fly. I wonder how fast you have to be to have a controlled landing.
 
The pilots who fly them say they're really easy, but you do have to come over the fence fast as they have no flaps. Thus you are confined to relatively long runways. About the only other catch is you can't just push the nose over to descend, they're too slippery and gain speed too quickly.
 
The thing I don't understand is why he freaked out. They have a little puck on the front of them just for things like that. There was a guy in OK that would forget to lower his about every 3rd time he flew. Get out, crank out the nose gear, taxi to the hangar, put a new puck on it.
 
This is how it should be done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cwcM0JC-J0&NR=1

start final about 3-4 miles out, place the nose on the numbers and reduce power and hold the stick all the way back until the nose bobs up into a canard stall, and then add power to adjust decent rate.

you will get that up and down fluctuations all the way to touch down.
 
After the nose gear came out something else was sticking out below the belly, anyone know what that was? Looked a lot like a speed brake.
 
gismo said:
After the nose gear came out something else was sticking out below the belly, anyone know what that was? Looked a lot like a speed brake.
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Yes, it was down in the first part of the approach, he retracted it on the abort.
 
gismo said:
After the nose gear came out something else was sticking out below the belly, anyone know what that was? Looked a lot like a speed brake.
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Yes most have a speed brake.
 
Florida Cracker said:
That looks like a hard plane to fly. I wonder how fast you have to be to have a controlled landing.
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Nothin hard about it. You trim for landing speed with a given pitch attitude. Control vertical speed with the drag brake and throttle/power lever. To flare, you hold the nose slightly above horizontal, pull power and let it settle ont he mains.

You just saw a video of a canard stalling and nose bobbing..

Completely pilot error.. applied power to go around when realizing the nose gear was up...

then pulling back power?? putting drag brake back down?? once you go around, you go around...

The damage would have been MUCH less had he let it drop on the nose during the first landing attempt.
 
Watch that first hit, he dug a hell of a hole, and the only thing that came off the aircraft was the landing gear bow.

Amusingly stout, it flexed wobbled some but it stayed together.
 
gismo said:
After the nose gear came out something else was sticking out below the belly, anyone know what that was? Looked a lot like a speed brake.
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Its a drag device... since the plane is so slick. Its used to steepen the approach. While many call it a speed brake, thats really a misnomer, as its got a limit on extension speed.... exceed that and you will break it, or the mounting on the airframe.

Its essentially made by cutting the panel out of the a/c floor during the build, then glassing over the hole on the inside, giving a nice recess for it to stow in. The extension mechanism is in a seatback.
 
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