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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MACHINE "LOOPS."
to stop all the energy which had been stored by the dive.
Blotto for the Captain. The result was blottd for, the captain. A few minutes later he was flatter than a pancake stepped
Case Shank, who once held the vent his Immelman turn, which is loop-the-loop record, tells in now being andly corrupted by call Modern Mechanics (Minneapolis), ing it a wing-over turn, is hard to
all to perform
kinds imagine. I doubt if he deliberate of aerial stunts," and tells it inly invented it He probably got the peculiar "argot' affected by caught in a hot-box during some aviators, which now almost rivals engagement, and found he had to the verbal technique of baseball. go some place in one sweet heck of, and his friends were picking Writes the pilot:-
him up on blotting paper. If that a hurry or get peppered.
had happened higher up, the speed It is the turning mancurte par la have been finally damped excellence, and was used to fool the
First let's take a look at the different tricks of air acrobatics. I'll tell you about the loop, the Immelman, the history of each, and what they are good for. Then we can stide along and see how they are done.
"To begin with, let's look at the loop. I can speak with a fistle authority on this, because I set the first real honest-to-goodness quan- tity-measure loop-the loop record last year.
Went up one afternoon in a Waco nine, OXS motor, and slid around the inside of the barrel
enemy, by a quick reversal of diree-out, the wings would have caught hold and, instead of churning tion.
through solid air to the ground. helpless and hapless, the captain would probably be flying to-day, as all careful pilots are,
Doesn't matter
Nose dive i Nothin' to it! These ten-thousand-foot dives with power full on were myths of the. War. The ship couldn't have been pulled out of such a dive, for the flying wires would have pulled through the flimsy spare that War- time ships were powered with. But dive." except to pull her out of it gently, and to throttle the engine so it won't throw a con, rod or the prop.
till I ran out of gas. Bein' which #y!wn. To do this, you will there's no pilotin' necded in a nose
condition of the motor, I decided not to loop any more, and came down.
About 561 times-that's what they told me. I lost count.
Not Dicult.
"This looping stunt isn't diffi- ault after you get used to it. It is a good war-time and military manguere, and holds the crowds breathless at county fairs. I guess they figure you will spill out and get badly scattered as you go over the top.
But loops to the fellow who is doin' 'em are pretty much like straight fing. The
The world seems to go around and around crazy-like, while you just bat along as though you were pretty much flying straight away.
To loop, the ship is dived to
gain speed. At the same time it
"It is started by a light dive, when the engine is throttled so will not speed up much. Then it is gunned for all it is worth, and the ship slowly jerked into the first half of a loop. which way the ship is rolled over, but if you roll it the opposite way the prop is turning, it will come over quicker. The trick is to get her right side up while you have speed, just before she stalls upside have to start sticking her over when you are, about one-third up the loop, so she will be rightside up with care when the burble point it reached-which it shouldn't be killer known when coming in for "Side slip Best little altitude That is, the burble point, or a stall, should never happen, or a landing. Nose dives are faster, come to pass. The ship should sort but they give you speed which you of spiral up the half of the loop, can't kill, and you are apt to over- coming out at the
top half in shoot the field.
Tail spins cre
a subject in normal flying position, going the
themselves. other way, from what it was when the turn started:
Tail-spinning has often been called nose spinning, which really more accurate, but as in the case of the Immelman, usage has leaned to the descriptive side rather than.. to the accurate technical side.
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is
A Trt for the Books. Hotrevor on ain't seen nothin' till you're "barl rolled.' That's a trick for the books!
"The roll is, started when you have gained plenty of fing speed in Tail-spinning is safe enough if
a done at great height, and is' decid
's dived, the, motor is cus was that a gentle glide with the motor all
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it does not speed up measurably. kept that way. Then the rest of altitude without gaining too much of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Thep, as the stick is pulled slowly the trick lies in keeping the ship speed. It requires very great skill, for the Session 1928. away back the motor is gunned in the line of fight. The tendency but there is much confusion be-
wide out. When the world is standing upside down, the gun is eut to little better than idling The stick is straightened speed. up a bit, so that when she regains diving speed you will have some thing left to pull ber back with.
The main idea is to keep the wings level and the ship looping in a true circle instead of as long
screw thread. Not so hard.
The outside loop is an angel
naker if there ever was one.
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will be for the tail to whip, and tween nose-spinning and spiral you will have to diddle the rudder dives.' and the elevator to keep the old mill banging along a direct path.
"A variation of the roll is the falling leaf, so called because that's what it looks like to observers on
side,
Height Required... Tail-spinning is primarily a rosation on an axis, not in line with the body, but passing through the nose, merely because the side pressure at the front is the his force causing the spin. But this movement is quite distinct from a corkscrew twisting of the airplane on its own axis, due merely to roll- ing the wings end over end. Some ship will go into a spia just after "Then there is the ordinary a stall with the engine on, and zoom, the stall, and the nose dive, will come out by shitting off the side, slip, and tail spin yet to engine. cover.
the ground. The ship is sort of stalled, and as it fails, the wings are whipped from side to with the line of fight normal. It is like the barrel roll, except that the roll is never completed. The plane awings back and forth like
crazy pendulum.
"A" dangerous feature of spin-
have seen fellows try to do it, and I have tried it myself, but you can't try it with a ship which is very stable like a Waco or a Jenny or à Standard. For one thing, the normal wing-loadings are reversed. You throw all the stress
on the Landing-wires, which are only single. The only thing which will throw you around the loop is speed and plenty of it. Given speed and only one set of wires to carry skywards again. Only don't make with long tails will come out of a reversed load, and the wings of
the mistake of trying it too fast spin easily, mes ships would be near the
too near the ground. Early in the readily. cashing in point. Stay away from
Pulitzer series of races an Army "As a matter of fact though, the the outside loop until you own a Curtiss Hawk, or something with captain dove for the starting line, airplane can be brought out of the planning to jerk the ship out of spin or any of these positions by non-bustable fighting wings on her. Then, with plenty of nerve, and the dive and scuttle along with merely bringing all controls to about 2,000 air-hours skill behind screaming speed for the finish line. neutral, and just holding them "He got fooled. The wings bit there courageously for a definite you might get by with it.
all the air they could chew-they time. Then, by pushing forward carried their maximum load and into a diving position, and hold- held, but the plane was a powering them there for a length of time ful, heavy one, and small, The to regain air control on the flaps, wings slid through the air, carry the ship can be flown out of her ing fall lond, which was not enough predicament."
"All but the last are simple as ring" comes in where there is too nie. The zoom is merely a sort of much side-fin surface in front of a hedge hop. You use up the the centre of gravity, as this excess speed and energy stored up stiffens the airplane, making it from a dive to kite the old wagon harder to get out. As a rule, ships Short ships spin
The Immelman Turn, "Now for the Immelman turn Old man Immelman was a German ace, who preceded most of the now famous Byers. How he came to in-
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