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Old 8th Jan 2013, 21:42
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broadreach
 
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Hotel Tango, suspect Vovachan has been watching all this with great interest from the beginning, as most of us have.

I think most of us are wondering at the dynamics of the sled ride down the several levels of embankment and how speed influenced the final outcome. Several posters' studied comments indicate a speed of less than 80 knots, which might be suggestive of the nosewheel hitting, in quick succession, descending levels of embankment and exerting an upward moment before finally breaking the fuselage just above or just behind the nose gear. That might help to explain the main fuselage coming to rest pointing up - or it could be that, once the nose had broken off, the new aft CG was sufficient to accomplish an upward slant; the motorway clip focusses on the cars and highway debris and doesn't show how the fuselage reacted.

The bottom-upwards compression of the nose section itself: as the fuselage fractured, one can imagine it being leveraged nose-up as the fuselage cracked, just prior to hitting the final wall. Whether survivable or not, Kulverstuka's photos of stowed shoulder straps make you want to cry.
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