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Old 07-15-2010 | 07:54 AM
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Default RE: Skymaster Viper ..... unexplained crash??


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3) A post-mortem has revealed that there was indeed a radio issue, specifically regarding uncommanded and asymmetric movement on the the flap channel.
i find it too much of a co-winky-dink that this radio failure revealed itself at the top of a loop, on a heavy aircraft, with the pilot yanking on the elevator. I'm sorry guys, everyone wants to believe they've had a radio failure of some kind but, this is clearly a high speed stall.

i have a SM hawk that behaves exactly the same way, these jets are tanks, they weigh 30 plus pounds and have a wing area less than a .60 size glow plane. Bad things happen when you pull on the elevator.

Mike