Machinbird. You are saying that asymmetric elevator has me fooled into seeing the stabilizer is twisted? What else could it be doing? Any out of consonant deflection by the two elevators would torque the Stabs radically. At that velocity? It would twist the airframe, I don't see ailerons capable of rolling that a/c that rapidly, the roll was uncommanded, surely.
I do see the twist of the tail, and I see the a/c recovering from it in the video. The recoil shakes the image of the a/c in the video, do you not see that? There is distortion of the image throughout this sequence, the object was in the midst of a violent airborne prang. imo.
Cub: Yes, The left HS has a pronounced anhedral in that image.
That appears to be Mach's #2 image in his four sequence panel, above.
If I may, I'd suggest I see the ailerons commanding a right roll in that image, and we know it was rolling left. Did the tab problem interrupt a right roll?
Last edited by Lyman; 11th Oct 2011 at 03:32.