I remember seeing the amazing Patty Wagstaff when I was still a student. I guess it was maybe in 1979, or thereabouts. I was flying out of Bowman Field in Louisville, Ky., and she was getting fuel when I went outside to wait for my instructor. At the time I didn't even knew who she was, but from her beautiful, brightly-painted airplane, with her name painted on the side, I knew she was "somebody." *lol* It wasn't long after that until I learned who she was....and the world learned too. What an amazing flying career.
In the second half of the roll, you can see the passenger side rudder pedals and I can’t see any apparent rudder pedal movement. How much top rudder are you applying?
Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding how the rudders are being used here, "top rudder" changes from right rudder to left rudder as the maneuver progresses. It would be helpful (to me, anyway) if the graphics on the video made this switch a bit more obvious.
Mr Cuvier: You're quite right in you description of top rudder. You use top rudder to keep the nose from dropping as the bank angle gets steeper. With the wings at 90 degrees of bank, called 'knife edge', you are using yaw inputs to do what you'd do with elevator inputs when staight and level. If you want to hold the plane in knife edge, you have to neutralize the pitch once th wings are perpeedcicular to the ground and pressplenty of top rudder. It seems like you are interested in aerobatics. A very good first book on this subject was written long ago by a great aishow pilot name Duane Cole, called "Roll Around a Point." There's one currently listed on Amazon forless than ten buck plus shipping.
Shes a living legend. Amazing job Patty!
I remember seeing the amazing Patty Wagstaff when I was still a student. I guess it was maybe in 1979, or thereabouts. I was flying out of Bowman Field in Louisville, Ky., and she was getting fuel when I went outside to wait for my instructor. At the time I didn't even knew who she was, but from her beautiful, brightly-painted airplane, with her name painted on the side, I knew she was "somebody." *lol* It wasn't long after that until I learned who she was....and the world learned too.
What an amazing flying career.
I remember watching Patty practice along the New Seward Highway in Anchorage, Alaska roughly 1980-'81 thereabouts.
Best slow roll I ever saw was Patty Wagstaff in a P51 on Sunday at the Gathering of Mustangs and Legends!
Cool tutorial!
In the second half of the roll, you can see the passenger side rudder pedals and I can’t see any apparent rudder pedal movement. How much top rudder are you applying?
In an underpowered aerobatic plane like C152 aerobat you need to pitch up. In a powerfull plane you can roll in straight level easily
Unless I'm grossly misunderstanding how the rudders are being used here, "top rudder" changes from right rudder to left rudder as the maneuver progresses. It would be helpful (to me, anyway) if the graphics on the video made this switch a bit more obvious.
Mr Cuvier: You're quite right in you description of top rudder. You use top rudder to keep the nose from dropping as the bank angle gets steeper. With the wings at 90 degrees of bank, called 'knife edge', you are using yaw inputs to do what you'd do with elevator inputs when staight and level. If you want to hold the plane in knife edge, you have to neutralize the pitch once th wings are perpeedcicular to the ground and pressplenty of top rudder.
It seems like you are interested in aerobatics. A very good first book on this subject was written long ago by a great aishow pilot name Duane Cole, called "Roll Around a Point." There's one currently listed on Amazon forless than ten buck plus shipping.
Gute informationen Frau Wagstaff.
Cool!
Let’s do some form aerobatics?
be very careful and Costa Rica awaits you