Trike Tumble

[Spark]

http://www.motolotnie.rsi.pl/mpg/film1s.mpg

[mcelrah]

Oof da! That was ugly. Guess you shouldn't try to loop 'em, huh?
- Hugh

>From: Spark <BagPipeFlyer@hotmail.com>
>Date: Tue Oct 25 17:42:31 CDT 2005
>To: ot_forum@chgpa.org
>Subject: Trike Tumble

>
>http://www.motolotnie.rsi.pl/mpg/film1s.mpgAllen Sparks
>301-462-8320
>http://community.webshots.com/user/sparkozoid

[Marco Zee]

Does anyone know what injuries the pilot sustained?

[John Anderson]

Alan--
Ouch, says a sometime trike pilot. I plyaed it a few times to try to figure out the genesis. But hard to see minature... Stalling turn/ sideslip? Could that hiot be survived? I guess like the others I would like to see an accident report?
--John

[Flying Lobster]

Looking at that video the rig looks more like one of those microlights with conventional wing rather than a trike--but its hard to be sure. Trikes tend to have much more power, speed and structuarl reinforcement, another reason I'm inclined to think this is a low-powered microlight. Looks like a stall started with a slow/tight wingover which resulted in an end-over-end tumble.

marc

[Spark]

Unfortunately, I don't have any other details on the incident. I found that link on the Rochester Area Flyers (RAF) Yahoo group. I used to fly trikes too, but I would NEVER attempt aerobatics in a trike, or aerobatics in any aircraft at that low altitude.

[Spark]

According to this link, it was a 'Fatal Loop'

http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Estclub/Aus ... taloop.htm