Harvard display video Snap Rolls

That video of the flick on takeoff is just asking to go wrong slow inverted another way to get yourself in big trouble I can see he was pulling a bit of +G but my god one cough.

I’ve never seen a Harvard flick-rolled, but I have seen a Polikarpov I-16 do it several times in quick succession! Quite surprising when you don’t expect it.

Before you start correcting everyone else, make sure that your posts are correct. There is only one H in Hanna !!

Seriously? If somebody attempts to correct some potentially serious misinformation they can only do so if they are certain of no spelling errors?

The T-6 has a bad reputation for a nasty tip stall if flown near the limits. Of course, a decent pilot would be aware of this but, as mentioned, low-level aeros are fraught with danger – not lease your lack of recovery height from anything.

An old friend (now deceased) when training on the Tiger Moth during the war, had a fellow course student who could flick roll the aircraft. The received wisdom at the time was that a Tiger Moth wouldn’t, or couldn’t, be flick-rolled. When asked how he did it the flick-rolling student just said “I dunno, I just do it”. It proves the point that some people are naturals and others not.

It’s more than confidence, it’s an innate ability and understanding which few people really have in a very unforgiving environment.

Rather him than me, though.

Anon.

Well, that video is OK, but….

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Didn’t a famous BoB pilot flick roll a Spitfire by stalling one wing and converting that into a roll?
Bob Stanford Tuck rings a bell?

BTW Mark Hannah was killed in a landing accident not performing aero’s.

Before you start correcting everyone else, make sure that your posts are correct. There is only one H in Hanna !!

You are quite correct.

http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=18874

I was remembering speculation that he maybe ran into his own votices after various low level aerobatic figures, but that remains just conjecture.

Didn’t a famous BoB pilot flick roll a Spitfire by stalling one wing and converting that into a roll?
Bob Stanford Tuck rings a bell?

BTW Mark Hannah was killed in a landing accident not performing aero’s.

I guess like all things if it goes ok it is ok but if it goes wrong and there’s no recovery height .

He seems a very competent and capable pilot, as aware of his machine as anyone could hope to be, and with luck he can continue to log the same number of landings as he does take-offs.

Low level aeros though, is such an unforgiving business. I am thinking of the great Mark Hanna- sadly no one is ever bullet-proof.

I guess like all things if it goes ok it is ok but if it goes wrong and there’s no recovery height .