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He started the pull-up in front of our hangar and was in a 60-degree climb when he passed over the buses doing consecutive aileron rolls at 360 degrees per second up to 10,000 feet [3,048 meters]. He then rolled over and came screaming back. He shot the place up north and south,...
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I pulled the nose up high about 45 degrees, inside his circle. Mind you, he was turning around to the left so I pulled the nose up high and rolled to the right. This is known as a vector roll. I got on top of him and half upside down, hung there, and waited for him to ...
(some of it raised through Kickstarter). Working in a hangar in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the temperature has ranged from 112 degrees to below freezing, he’s made most of the parts at least twice, many of them three times and some four, to get them just right. But now, on a bright,...
Thesingle-engine approachis another critical maneuver, requiring pilots to manage performance while maintaining appropriate airspeeds, includingblue line(VYSE) andred line(VMC). Jason stresses maintaining a slight bank (5 degrees) toward the operating engine to reduce VMC by as much as 15 knots. ...
RWDC students had a 55% higher rate of obtaining bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields than all U.S. students.” Most RWDC students go on to higher education and many take jobs in aerospace, STEM or business. So, a comparison between those underrepresented in Science & Engineering (S&E) ...
The answer (or at least most of the answer—we’ve already geeked out enough) is temperature. This plays a big role, especially in summer. Back to the Cirrus flight we’ve been discussing. On this warm day, the temperature at altitude was -5 degrees C, which was 13 degrees warmer tha...
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I’d be about 20 degrees angle off and about 4,500 to 5,000 feet behind him. That’s exactly what happened. Frankly, I’m not sure he ever saw me. When I got down low and behind, and he was outlined by the sun against a brilliant blue sky, I let him have two Sidewinders, ...