That was a fun read, Ken! I am glad that I have spent most of my
life in aircraft that needed a full runway ;-). I can imagine that
sort of thing happening now that I fly single pistons.
That noise, sideslip, happened to me when I was practising low level
aerobatics for a competition in 1983; that must have been a couple of
years after your near-mishap. I was flying a Jet Provost Mk 5, an
aircraft in which we were training navigators low level navigation at
that time, and I was practising my rolling display. I entered the
sequence along the runway at 500ft and did a 3 point hesitation roll
to the left, stopping at the 3rd point to enter a hard turn to the
right. Since I went from -2 g to +6g quite quickly I nearly always
greyed-out for a few seconds. The chap who always flew with me knew
this and was always ready to let me know if my hard turn was anything
but level. Once I had turned through 180 degrees I could see again
and carry out a slow roll. This time I did not get the nose up
enough before going inverted and I needed more than the normal boot
of top rudder in the final stages to prevent a descent developing.
The noise from the sideslip was loud and concerned both of us in the
cockpit, but I was more worried that the rudder seemed to over-
balance and I thought that I was about to flick into a spin.
Luckily I didn't, but the supervisor on the ground had also heard the
sideslip noise and wanted to know all about my antics ...
Chris
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On 30 Jan 2006, at 18:10, AG Schnozz wrote:
> Anyway, these planes are built a bit tougher than I ever
> expected. Oh, and there are wierd sounds that a plane makes
> when it's going sideways through the air. I've been up in
> aerobatic planes since, and the sound was similar to that during
> the first couple turns of a spin or during the recovery of a
> hammerhead. Not only is the plane creaking, but there are wind
> sounds on the airframe that just are unnatural.
>
> Imagine my concern when I heard those exact same sounds as a
> passenger on a commuter flight. We cought a wing vortice from
> the 737 ahead of us and turned us nearly inverted crossing the
> threshold.
>
> I don't fly much these days.
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