http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/567728/Plane-crashes-at-airshow.html Not good. What a terrible couple of weeks.
I almost went to that show today but, didn't because the weather wasn't looking good. I clicked on the above link to see if there was any additional news on the crash that I hadn't seen earlier. For some reason I felt compelled to read the comments under the article. Wow, what a bunch of disrespectful, ignorant people posting there. Blue skies gentleman.
I don't tend to read Youtube comments on stuff like this for the very same reason. People are absolutely ridiculous.
Here is video of the crash: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ORMFEHQAc[/ame] I wonder what happened? Everything about the move performed looked normal in the video to my (untrained) eye. The other plane doesn't respond in a way that makes it look like it was hit?
Looks to me like he may not have had enough upline before starting the aileron roll...maybe got a little too slow? I've never flown a T-28, so I don't know anything about their inverted handling characteristics, maybe 1400+ HP is enough to just power through and something else was going on. What a week. I'm going to go fly this afternoon before I start feeling weirded-out. Edit: watched it again, and I guess the other aircraft that made it had about the same amount of nose up attitude. Maybe he was just a bit slow and couldn't get enough roll rate to get back to wings level expeditiously enough. ?
I wonder if the pilot had a medical problem. Nothing else about the airplane's performance looked out of the ordinary to me.
