Now we are doing aeronautics
A rich and long lived thread, highly motivating many of us.
Question: When (probably) VS separated? There are differences to the AA587 fractured VS as you did see in the released pictures.
When you have an insight* on something most are unprepared for, you pay the price. I "saw this movie" some times.
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I elaborated in 1992 a method to get out from a DUTCH ROLL, and demonstrated it five times ago, on a MD83 simulator (Finnair, Helsinki, dec 1992...).
Nobody understood how I did that (counting seconds precisly with my free-fall experience, and resolving two differential equations by head computing the "response" I had to fly, and did it with full success.