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Old 09-14-2005 | 04:10 PM
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wgavin
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Default RE: Edge 540 2nd flight almost last

I remembered that my wife had shot some video of the first two flights and took a look at it at lunch today. I was hoping to be able to actually see which control surface was deflecting. Not able to yet. What is amazing is how violent the rolls to the right are. Level flight and then boom, level out, sudden right again. Then I start porpoising a little because I had lost altitude during the rolls. Too me it is obvious when I went from calm to puckered. There's a segment where you can see the same thing three times in row as I slowly worked the thing back to the field. I only saw one hard roll left which was me over compensating. Nowhere near as sudden as the rolls right. Then on final approach, low rates, throttle at idle, the video shows the plane at about 20 feet coming in nice and level. The camera bobs down for about 1/2 second and the plane is out of the picture. When it comes back in it is in knife edge, right wing vertically down, dropping fast. At the very end I get it level just before impact. The crunch on the video is as sickening as the real thing. Next week we are going to try to download the video to a laptop and go through it frame by frame, though I'm afraid the deflection occured just when the plane was out of the picture. Interesting to watch.