"Let's RIDE Vaqueros!"
- Robert L. Shaw (callsign: Mouse)
The greatest, the best, my obsession and the finest piece of art wrought by the hand of man: MUSTANG!
ACRO!
Aerobatics is *IT* and I've started my acro lessons in a Super Decathlon.
Up to now I've worked Spins, Loops, Aileron Rolls, Slow Rolls, Half Cuban 8's. Next on the list are Reverse Cuban 8's and Hammerheads. On April 27, 2007 I managed to film a loop that I did.
Click on the picture (Aresti Diagram) of the loop below to view the MPG.
SPINS!
One of the more enjoyable maneuvers to learn are spins. It's also, in my opinion, vital for safe flying to know how you get into one, how to recognize that you are getting into one, and how to get out of one. So Mouse and I took up a C-152 to practice some spins. He gave me my first instruction in spins in 1998, but I wanted MORE. The picture below shows the different phases of a spin. I asked Mouse to film a spin I did in July 2006 when I visited him in Ohio. And you can view the MPG by clicking on the illustration of the different phases of a spin, below.
The movie begins with me pulling power and raising the nose. Seven seconds into the MPG you can here the whiney buzz of the stall warning buzzer - telling you the wing has stalled and is no longer creating lift to hold th eplane in the air. In the illustration below, that corresponds to the upper left section labeled "stall". Nine seconds into the MPG you hear Mouse tell me to feed in rudder and two seconds later we are over on our backs. In the illustration that's just about the point where we enter "incipient spin". Notice the ground outside the window to my left - it's not usually there under normal circumstances!. You hear Mouse counting out the revolutions, one, two, three. On "three" - 18 seconds later - I neutralize the rudder and back pressure on the yoke and the spin stops - we are now at the point in the picture where you see the word "Recovery". Great fun!
Click on the picture below to view the MPG.
I started out flying with the Air Force: the ROTC flight training program designed to weed out those pilot candidates too completely witless and uncoordinated to take even a lowly Cessa 150 up and back.
Me on the left
and my good friend, mentor, and man of enormous patience: Robert L. Shaw.
Lt. Col. USAFR (ret.) Originally of the U.S. Navy he's flown the F-4, F-14, and F-16 pilot - a true Fighter jock. Author
of "The Bible": Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering.
