George Lendich wrote:

The 25 pound Extra 300 is going about how fast when the rudder is

sitting on

the black top, and the nose is straight up?

Shaun Tucker fly's a biplane, a bit larger than a Pitts, with about

400HP.

Maybe 900 pounds hanging on the prop, with the only relative wind

available

being generated by the propeller. About a foot of each bottom wing

involved. If

the wings fell off while he is doing this, it would just make the plane

lighter.

So if you have sufficient power and your wings fall off, land vertically -
there's an alternative to a possible problem, never thought of that!

He is using less than full power to do this as he leaves this stunt by
powering up and accelerating away vertically.

All the stunts I've seen tend to nose dive before powering-off !!

George (down under)

 
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