[NSRCA-discussion] New maneuver for Masters or FAI

[Ed Alt]

Because, he said, it took a computer to figure it out.


>From: "Dean Pappas" <d.pappas at kodeos.com>
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>To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] New maneuver for Masters or FAI
>Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:25:45 -0400
>
>Back when Leo Loudenslager did something similar in airshows, he called it 
>a computer roll.
>Dean
>
>
>
>Dean Pappas
>Sr. Design Engineer
>Kodeos Communications
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Gray E Fowler
>Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:54 AM
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>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] New maneuver for Masters or FAI
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>
>
>I just went to the Fort Worth airshow and I saw a maneuver that is so cool 
>that some class above me needs to adopt it.
>I am going to try to remember how it went.....it is a 4 point roll
>
>
>from straight flight
>
>3/4 roll right to knife edge (belly of the plane)
>5/4 roll left to inverted
>3/4 roll right to knife edge (top of the plane)
>5/4 roll to upright.
>
>Anyone ever see this and does it have a name. I may have gotten it slightly 
>wrong, as it took me by surprise. It was Frank Ryder and the Oreck vacuum 
>cleaner powered plane-Cyclone.
>
>
>Gray Fowler
>Senior Principal Chemical Engineer
>Radome and Composites Engineering
>Raytheon
>


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