Posted: 5/12/2011 3:58:36 AM EDT
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Quoted: Anyone know if he made it down? From the comments: the airplane's control surfaces went completely nuts right after taking off from Chkalovsky airfield, but somehow the pilots managed to guide it back to Earth in one piece. the pilot did a great job. |
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Anyone know if he made it down? This is the video of the landing (its a 3 part video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9UM33EKqY&feature=related This is video of the takeoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9UM33EKqY&feature=related Apparently the plane had been in storage for 10 years and this was the first flight. I read somewhere else that every time the pilot used the ailerons, the plane detected the movement as an external force- and tried to correct. Does that make sense to the pilots on here? |
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Anyone know if he made it down? This is the video of the landing (its a 3 part video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9UM33EKqY&feature=related This is video of the takeoff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9UM33EKqY&feature=related Apparently the plane had been in storage for 10 years and this was the first flight. I read somewhere else that every time the pilot used the ailerons, the plane detected the movement as an external force- and tried to correct. Does that make sense to the pilots on here? Thanks for the links. I've seen similar problems on other aircraft over correcting, but that was usually associated with autopilot or SAS (stability augmentation system) problems. Turn the autopilot or SAS off, and no more problem. I don't see a TU-154 being anymore complicated than that. In fact, I don't think they are even flown anymore in Russia. |
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Looked more like a compressor stall followed by bad dutch roll to me. Silly western countries and our yaw dampeners Um, no... The wing design of the Tu-154 neither lends itself to yaw dampeners nor, in theory, should require them. Its problem is lateral instability. Dutch rolls are more of a western-airliner specific problem, normally, due to the opposite verticle wing sweep. While that does appear to be a dutch roll, that is an unnatural state for that aircraft. It is probably being caused by a flight control failure of some sort... That pilot is wasting a shitload of energy in the struggle for control... Concerning... Wonder what the failure was? TR85. |