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                           RV7-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Fri 03/17/06: 2
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Today's Message Index:
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     1. 03:47 AM - Re: Dead Stick Aerobatics - Sort of RV related  (Dana Overall)
     2. 08:12 AM - Re: Dead Stick Aerobatics - Sort of RV related  (Rob Prior (rv7))
 
 
 
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Time: 03:47:51 AM PST US
From: "Dana Overall" <bo124rs@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: RV7-List: Dead Stick Aerobatics - Sort of RV related

--> RV7-List message posted by: "Dana Overall" <bo124rs@hotmail.com>

Bill, just a side.  I watched Hoover perform deadstick at the Dayton Airshow 
one year when he performed the following:  after using airspeed from 
altitude to perform various wingovers, loops and such, he landed deadstick, 
rolled down the runway, onto the ramp.....still no engines.......got out of 
the rolling airplane 50 or so feet from the fence....he is taxing directly 
towards the crowd.....walked next to the rolling airplance, then placed the 
chock under the nosegear.........10 or so feet from the fence, whereup he 
removed his hat and bowed!!!


Dana Overall
Richmond, KY i39
RV-7 slider, Imron black, "Black Magic"
O 360 A!A, C/S C2YK-1BF/F7666A4
http://rvflying.tripod.com/blackrudder.jpg
do not archive


>From: "Bill Schlatterer" <billschlatterer@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <RV7A@yahoogroups.com>, <rv7-list@matronics.com>,        
><GRT_EFIS@yahoogroups.com>
>Subject: RV7-List: Dead Stick Aerobatics -  Sort of RV related
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:49:46 -0600
>
>--> RV7-List message posted by: "Bill Schlatterer" 
><billschlatterer@sbcglobal.net>
>
>If you were a Bob Hoover fan, this is great,.... If not you probably should
>be :-)
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBcapxGHjE
>
>Turn the volume up and when you don't hear the engines running,.... They're
>not!
>
>Bill S
>7a Ark Wiring
>
>Do not archive
>
>


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Time: 08:12:54 AM PST US
From: "Rob Prior (rv7)" <rv7@b4.ca>
Subject: RE: RV7-List: Dead Stick Aerobatics - Sort of RV related

--> RV7-List message posted by: "Rob Prior (rv7)" <rv7@b4.ca>

On 3:42:14 2006-03-17 "Dana Overall" <bo124rs@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bill, just a side.  I watched Hoover perform deadstick at the Dayton
> Airshow one year when he performed the following...

For fans of energy-management-aerobatics, look for an act by Kent Peach at
your local airshows.  Kent flies an Interstate Cadet, which is a high-wing,
two-place, side-by-side airplane somewhat like a Fleet Canuck.  He starts
off high, shuts the engine off, and performs loops, rolls, spins, down to
ground level, does a "high-speed" pass, pulls up into a 180, and lands on
the closest runway or taxiway.  Then he rolls up towards the crowd where
his assistant is standing with his hand up, and rolls the airplane right up
to the assistant, placing the spinner in his hand.  The claim is that it's
done without using the brakes, but who knows really.

The two best crowd-approach manouevers i've seen so far are Bob Granley's
(he turns the harvard tail-first to the crowd, and backs it up to the
fence, while looking over his shoulder like he's backing up a car) and
Delmar Benjamin's (he does a pirouette in front of the crowd, when the side
of the Gee-bee with the door gets out of sight, he unlatches it and
positions himself in the doorway, then when it comes around again he pops
out and bows to the crowd as the plane stops turning.

-Rob