REFLECTOR: Flying Magazine - 2009 Velocity accident

[Geoff Gerhardt]

I read the article.  Seemed pretty reasonable.  He simply speculated that a sharp pitch up response by the pilot may have been enough to throw the main wing into stall.  Whereas normally the canard would stall and drop the nose, he suggested that an aggressive pitch up may have provided enough inertial momentum to pivot the plane into an attitude that would have resulted in a deep stall.

Geoff

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On Oct 9, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Mark Magee <edjonesbrady at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> Elaborate?
> 
> Mark B. Magee
> M34XL
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> On Oct 9, 2012, at 5:32 PM, Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net> wrote:
> 
>> You know I've always liked reading Garrison's articles.  I now wonder if most of them are as full of bullshit as this one?  Probably so...
>> 
>> Scott
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: REFLECTOR: Flying Magazine - 2009 Velocity accident
>> From: Reiff Lorenz <Reiff at Lorenz.com>
>> To: reflector at tvbf.org <reflector at tvbf.org>
>> Date: 10/09/2012 03:42 PM
>>>  
>>> This month's Flying magazine has an article (copy attached) about a Velocity accident in 2009. The plane           lost a prop blade and this author believes the pilot mistook the violent shaking to be flutter, pulled abruptly on the stick, put the plane into a deep stall, and had no way to use engine power to break the stall.
>>>  
>>> I wasn't a Reflector member in 2009 so don't know any more than what is in the article. Is there anything to learn from this apart from the obvious? (Make sure your prop blades stay attached, but recognize the symptoms if they don't, and fly the airplane.)
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