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A PLANE CRASHED during an air show in Hungary today, leaving two people dead and four injured, officials said. A video in local media showed the plane – a 1951 North American Aviation T–28 Trojan, according to media reports – tumbling from the sky and exploding on the ground.
Hungarian news site with a number of pictures
https://www.feol.hu/helyi-kek-hirek/...ulonapon-video
Hungarian news site with a number of pictures
https://www.feol.hu/helyi-kek-hirek/...ulonapon-video
Not as much tumbling as looking to me like panic attack during a low altitude slow roll.
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Simple `Rule1` for rolling manoeuvres in airshows; Roll axis`always above,seldom level,never below..the horizon`.
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Can't remember who said it (Lecomber?) but also start the roll towards the crowd line (as happened here) so if things go awry during the second half, an anxious pull takes the accident away from the spectators. It seems the impact was in a car park and those injured were in a car.
As much fun as the T28B was to own and fly, it was not a great aerobatic aircraft, but it was a great trainer of the use of trim. teaching someone else to do aeros could end up with a demonstration of falling out of a roll from being crossed up. Was a blast but much more work than a Pitts. Much like a T6. Rolling with altitude to recover from a mess was nice to have. Sad end to the old girl, and those involved. The B had a fair bit more get up and go and could shuffle along quite nicely.
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As much fun as the T28B was to own and fly, it was not a great aerobatic aircraft, but it was a great trainer of the use of trim. teaching someone else to do aeros could end up with a demonstration of falling out of a roll from being crossed up. Was a blast but much more work than a Pitts. Much like a T6. Rolling with altitude to recover from a mess was nice to have. Sad end to the old girl, and those involved. The B had a fair bit more get up and go and could shuffle along quite nicely.
The first half of the barrel roll was executed correctly, starting with the nose above the horizon to avoid negative g's once inverted with constant roll rate.
Something went wrong after the first 200-250 degrees or so of rotation. Il looks like he stopped rolling , as trim was most likely set for straight and level 1g, once past inverted failing to complete the roll the nose at 1g positive would point straight to the ground; The movie clip seems to confim this.
Easy to comment from my armchair at home, but again as the first part of the roll was technically correct and at a safe heigh compatible with the roll rate if not interrupted.
Something went wrong which I cannot logically explain..
My respects to those invoved.
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Can't remember who said it (Lecomber?) but also start the roll towards the crowd line (as happened here) so if things go awry during the second half, an anxious pull takes the accident away from the spectators. It seems the impact was in a car park and those injured were in a car.
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There isn't a clear reference in the video so it takes some mental extrapolation (as well as Monday morning quarterbacking) but I'm seeing it different: somewhere between zero and 10 degrees of pitch up. Haven't flown a T-28 but if it's anything like the T-6 (heavy on the controls, low roll rate) and if I'm seeing it right, then that's not nearly sufficient, and it was wrong before any amount of rotation.
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Indeed...
Looks like some pitch up into a slow roll to me in the vid posted by GeeRam, whole thing went awry while inverted. Seen a couple of other videos which show him rolling the day before (right rather than left if memory serves), somewhat faster. Not a barrel roll, not to start with anyway.
Looks like some pitch up into a slow roll to me in the vid posted by GeeRam, whole thing went awry while inverted. Seen a couple of other videos which show him rolling the day before (right rather than left if memory serves), somewhat faster. Not a barrel roll, not to start with anyway.
Thanks for the other video showing it from another perspective.
I fly regularly high performance aerobatic aircraft of the last generation which I own one. I concur these warbirds are heavy with a slow roll rate.
But roll rate depends on speed; The aircraft buzzed at quite high speed ( probably as it often happens he dived from altitude and gained a fair amount of speed before passing the crowd line).
would estimate it in excess of 350 km/h. And the roll rate as I see it is far from sluggish. Technically the first half of the roll is well executed, with correct inputs both from rudder and stick.
Then the nose started to dive and the rotation stopped. The rate of rotation and height both suggest the maneuver could have been completed safely. Something went clearly wrong
Haven't flown a T-28 but if it's anything like the T-6 (heavy on the controls, low roll rate)
The first half of the barrel roll was executed correctly, starting with the nose above the horizon to avoid negative g's once inverted with constant roll rate.
Something went wrong after the first 200-250 degrees or so of rotation. Il looks like he stopped rolling , as trim was most likely set for straight and level 1g, once past inverted failing to complete the roll the nose at 1g positive would point straight to the ground; The movie clip seems to confim this.
Easy to comment from my armchair at home, but again as the first part of the roll was technically correct and at a safe heigh compatible with the roll rate if not interrupted.
Something went wrong which I cannot logically explain..
My respects to those invoved.
Something went wrong after the first 200-250 degrees or so of rotation. Il looks like he stopped rolling , as trim was most likely set for straight and level 1g, once past inverted failing to complete the roll the nose at 1g positive would point straight to the ground; The movie clip seems to confim this.
Easy to comment from my armchair at home, but again as the first part of the roll was technically correct and at a safe heigh compatible with the roll rate if not interrupted.
Something went wrong which I cannot logically explain..
My respects to those invoved.
The opportunity for FOD in the T-28 is pretty high, within the cockpit area and in the baggage compartment. Not as lethal as the Yak-52 in that resect, but still get a good collection of memorabilia when inverting.
Did my training on the 28B and C with the USN, only have experience with the T-34 and Chipmunk to compare the handling and wouldn't put in the heavy category. Bob Hoover was the one who did the initial test flying on the aircraft, it was said the roll rate had to be reduced so as not to over whelm students, some of our instructors had a shares in a P-51 and said the 28 out performed the 51 with the exception of speed.
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Students had about 22 hours, of which about 5 solo, in a T-34 before progressing to the T-28 where they went solo after about 10 hours. Always thought of the 28 as a 34 with a bit more power, handling similar.
always made one respect the process newbies went through when they walked out to those for their first flights
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Using a kneeboard or any other object when performing maneuvers is really not recommended, as well as carrying a passenger during airshows in the times I was doing them was prohibited. Not only it is a liability, but it adds weight.
Did my training on the 28B and C with the USN, only have experience with the T-34 and Chipmunk to compare the handling and wouldn't put in the heavy category. Bob Hoover was the one who did the initial test flying on the aircraft, it was said the roll rate had to be reduced so as not to over whelm students, some of our instructors had a shares in a P-51 and said the 28 out performed the 51 with the exception of speed.
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Kneeboard and a multi-tool found loose in the wreckage of the P-38, no witness marks to confirm either caused a control restriction.
Re the T-28, suggestion elsewhere that the roll might have been an eight-point hesitation; videos certainly do give a slight impression of quick stop-starts.
Re the T-28, suggestion elsewhere that the roll might have been an eight-point hesitation; videos certainly do give a slight impression of quick stop-starts.
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Kneeboard and a multi-tool found loose in the wreckage of the P-38, no witness marks to confirm either caused a control restriction.
Re the T-28, suggestion elsewhere that the roll might have been an eight-point hesitation; videos certainly do give a slight impression of quick stop-starts.
Re the T-28, suggestion elsewhere that the roll might have been an eight-point hesitation; videos certainly do give a slight impression of quick stop-starts.
On the first video filmed by the crowd line, the roll is not a hesitation one - no 1/8th or 1/4th stops., it's constant roll from what I can see, the fist 180 degrees of the maneuver is very clean and properly executed.
I can clearly see the dive before passing the crowdline which suggests -As if often happens during airshows- that there has been a dive to gain airspeed, to be in the safe side and increase roll rate.
Then there is a shallow climb, very shallow indeed in case of an aircraft which may not have inverted oil and fuel systems, to anticipate the rolling. However american radial engines normally have pressure carburettors, with mechanical fuel pumps replacing carb floaters and jets and if so equipped. Negative G's would not interrupt flow, let alone for that brief moment if the carb was a standard one..
I stress on the "shallow" climb attitude at the roll start and the cosequent flat attitude when inverted which requires more forward stick to unload and pehaps a brief passage in the -1 G territory.
But the pilot showed high level of proficiency and coordination. Roll rate is appropriate as well as height above the ground to complete such maneuver That is what is puzzling me, how he went from such precise flying to what looked like a sloppy and sudden interruption in roll and consequent nose drop if trimmed for +1g cruise flight.
We have a very smooth precise trajectory and roll until past 180 then it degenerates
Something does not add up here.
Tool kit or loose kneyboard may have played a role.
There isn't a clear reference in the video so it takes some mental extrapolation (as well as Monday morning quarterbacking) but I'm seeing it different: somewhere between zero and 10 degrees of pitch up. Haven't flown a T-28 but if it's anything like the T-6 (heavy on the controls, low roll rate) and if I'm seeing it right, then that's not nearly sufficient, and it was wrong before any amount of rotation.
He said, he's been backseating in a 28 during practice at altitude with an airforce pilot doing the same thing, and an only 5deg pitch up saw a 800ft altitude loss as a result.....