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Old 24th Jan 2014, 12:39
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SalNichols
 
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Looking at camera 5 a few dozen times, it never seems like he has any "real" pitch stability. You can see the glint off of the tops of the wings as the plane kind of steps down. If you look carefully, the last pitch down looked to my aged eyes to be his third bounce, with each pitch oscillation increasing in amplitude. Gusty tailwind wasn't his friend, maybe he just got behind it early on.
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