A school friend of mine did a Flying Scholarship at Marshalls Cambridge in the early 60s in Tiger Moths (some of which are still flying)
He was taught that if he had an engine failure , moments before hitting the hedge/brick wall or whatever on the ground, he should stand on the rudder to slew the a/c through 90 deg so the wing tip impacted first.
Progressive collapse would dissipate the energy of the impact and the a/c would stop before the brick wall reached him.
That photo looks like a pretty convincing demo of the progressive energy dissipation notion....
Cusco
Last edited by Cusco; 21st Aug 2012 at 16:21.