Great idea! Now that would make a cool R Gruppe car.:eek: Naw, I was planning on installing it on the T6. :p

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Maybe, but they even matched the fuselage and wing impact locations to the tree limbs, skinned the bark, and broke off a large limb to fall over on it. They musta' been artiste's.

Edit: http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000879.html

The other side of the wreckage:
http://images20.fotki.com/v380/photo...FlyHere-vi.jpg

No game here, it was a real accident. Look at the impact points and wing into the tree. Would love to find out the real story but this was no prank.

Joe,

I'm with Pat on this one...I had suspicions from the start: Way to conformal without scarring marks. The physics are wrong as well. No way a limb that size doesn't fracture given aircraft velocity and weight...phenominal forces on impact.

I never went to the Naval Safety Center for accident investigation, but I have been the President of two mishap investigations at the Class A level...if I'm wrong about this one the beers on me later this month if you're in AZ!

I think it hit a tree per the report, just not this tree.

maybe they hung it on a big crane, and swung it in that tree , wrecking ball style...

There are limbs behind the empenage, no fracture points on the leading edge of the wings...I could go on, can you?

Edit: NTSB will not generally leave wreckage in place...given the fact that the engine is gone is a key as well.
YFNMMV.

if it's a real impact, and i'm verrry skeptical as well, the pilot is to be commended and probably would have survived this impact. it would have had to be going so slow as to below stalling speed (i know, i know..it couldn't) and stalled at just the precise moment. i think 'god' would have had to have had a hand in that tree landing...lol
ryan

Here's part of the NOAA accident data I posted above:
1 Aboard: 0 Fatalities.
Pilot...minor Injuries Aircraft Damage Substantial
Aircraft Lost Power On Departure From 00v. The Pilot Had
To Abort An Attempted Landing On A Road Due To Traffic.
The Aircraft Crashed In A Tree North Of The Airport At
Approximately 1725 Mst(0025 Utc).

:) does this mean i get beer? 'pat'ting' myself on the back...hahaha! dunno..guess i was kinda hedging my bet i guess. ;)

Don't forget the wool yarn! I had a piece at the front of the windshield, it was the best "instrument" I had.

Every sailplane I ever flew had one of these on the windscreen. You always could count on it to tell you what was going on.

don't fighterjets have some kind of thread/yarn thing hanging in front of the cockpit/windshield??

can you explain what exactly that does? is visual aid for stall? or spins?

so we can 'spin yarns' about our flying war stories, stijn... ;)
ryan

Shush, you weren't suppose to reveal that, pilot's oath, remember? Purple robes, candlelight, midnight rides?http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/...ool_shades.gif

Just don't mention the "MWNF".
http://images20.fotki.com/v367/photo...wnflogo-vi.gif

pat...am i to be sent to the 'penalty box' now? you can't have my purple robe back.. ;)

knock it off you , i've flown too, had my hands on the stick when my dad flew a couple of times ,i just never got my licence(it's very expensive around these parts), or owned a plane myself ...and i yelled for more instead of puking when i went up in that Pitss Special..

so what is the friggin deal with that frigging yarn thing...

TAke three drinks of a good scotch and call me in the morning. I'm sure this "breach" was only temporary. :D Send the robe to the cleaners, you don't know where it's been lately.

Which way is up. Think JFK junior.

Okay, okay, just this once. It indicated the airflow over the outside of the aircraft, including yaw, and pitch too if the flow separates where the yarn is taped.

It's a low cost angle of attack indicator in some instances. Depends on where you put it.

kay , wasn't far off then...
think i'll hang one on my car, you know , in case i drift it in the fog or something...