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Client Air Show Pilot: Mike Harris
THE KNIFE EDGE SPIN UP
AEROBATIC MANEUVER
Category (Basic,
Advanced or Extreme): Advanced
What's
Happening? In this video clip the Fighter Combat pilot Paul BJ
Ransbury
demonstrates then talks
the client (Mike) through the entry and recovery of this particular
advanced aerobatic maneuver last Friday, 4 March 2005.
The Knife
Edge Spin Up is a fun maneuver that puts the aircraft into a spin going
UP while rotating around the wing-line of the aircraft in knife-edge
flight. The typical entry uses a minimum of 160kts in level with about a
4 or 5 G
pull to the vertical up-line. When the up-line has been achieved,
the pilot immediately initiates a slight left roll followed by full left
rudder blended with full forward stick. When looking left down the
wing-line (i.e. towards with ground) the occupants can see a corkscrew shaped
column of smoke following them up. Transitioning one's view straight
ahead reveals that the aircraft is in knife edge flight going through
the air in the direction of the occupant's right shoulder. When the
rotational energy subsides the aircraft rolls left under torque to an
inverted accelerated flat spin condition as the nose yaw-transitions to
the pure vertical down line. Once established on the down-line the pilot
recovers from the spin condition and continues rolling on the down-line
for showmanship. Come watch Mike and BJ have some fun with the Knife
Edge Spin Up maneuver! :)
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Important Note: Without
exception, all mission profiles are "challenge by choice" at Fighter
Combat International. We will not put anyone through any maneuver
without their expressed permission and expressed desire to do so. Each
mission profile follows a building block approach from basic maneuvers
working towards the client's self-determined limitations. The customer chooses,
at each stage of the building block process, whether to keep it basic and
gentle or to move progressively towards the extreme.
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