I just read the latest reports from Reno, which now report 9 dead. These
included a photo of the plane in descent which showed that the left elevator
was missing its trim tab. From other reading, this seems to be an
anti-servo tab, which applies a trim force to the elevator, which positions
the elevator. With this tab gone, the control force necessary to control
the aircraft would have likely been extremely large.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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> Just speculating. I wonder if he encountered elevator flutter at high
> speed, caused by a last minute paint job and failure to check the balance
> of
> the control surfaces.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:06 PM
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>> >
>>> Today they were showing an image that looked like the trailing edge of
>>> the elevator was coming apart. There will probably be more images and
>>> videos of it show up. Always a lot of cameras firing away at an event
>>> like this.
>>>
>>
>> That would explain the sudden nose-down attitude and the vertical
>> descent.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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