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Originally Posted by VenezianBlau 87
Why was the P63 diving? Does a hard turn lose altitude if stick is not pulled back simultaneously?
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The idea mentionend in my the video in my previous post
is that to do the turn inside the bombers, the faster fighters did a high yo yo
Which is a classic maneuver to turn inside a slower fighter and stay or get behind him[
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So thats why he climbed
Then on the return leg, he dived to catch up with his formation , the P51's ahead.
The main problem with that, was that he was still in a bank, and one cannot ever overtake inside a turn cause it is impossible to look down, to the outside of the turn, it creates a huge blind spot in the direction of flight (because G makes plane push out of the bend)
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Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto
I posted this in another thread but this guy has some interesting insight. You have to scroll ahead to about 22.0 in the video as he covers a lot of other incidents as well.
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Find it odd, that he says "I never liked how CAF did that, it was an accident waiting to happen"
He says it so convinced, like he was so convinced before it happened.
Then Why did he not speak up at that time?
or report his concern to the FAA?
This is not about just other pilots flying, this is also the Safety of the spectators at the Airshow, or civilians living near or on the road around the airport.
And historical heritage lost
and why did not no body else internal or external to the CAF speak up if it was so obvious?
From what he says they did this similar thing before, and they have experienced pilots flying.
Why didn't anyone before think mixed speeds same altitudes, ground directed formation was a bad thing??
Sounds odd in a community where formation and safety is paramount, and twice as much in airshow context.
He says it so ademantly that it was already obvious before hand, that well if it was, it makes it almost part negligence that he not to report it..