Simply….Yes.

If there is any aerodynamic imbalance and one wing stalls before the other, then you get a wing drop.

It can happen on props, jets, or even gliders if you stall with a little bit of rudder or aileron input!

With a jet aircraft, I suspect that control input or weight imbalance would be a more likely cause than engine torque reaction. Particularly so with high-aspect ratio (long thin) wings.

Most single-engined propeller driven aeroplanes will exhibit some wing drop if stalled with even a small amount of power.

This is both due to torque reaction (the aeroplane trying to revolve around its engine) and assymetric airflow as the air being pushed back by the propeller corkscrews around the fuselage and hits one side of the fin.

With big propeller engines, you get BIG effects with power. Ask any P-51 pilot!!

Even small aircraft can get quite ‘sporting’ on occasion. The otherwise benign Tipsy Trainer will snap through half a turn of an incipient spin if provoked! And yes, you do use the expletives as part of the recovery process!

Congratulations to Mr. Ford.
Any photos of the moment or of a really big smile of the owner then BM?

Hear, hear, congratulations Mr. Ford!!

(You’ll have to start flying the FRED now Matt! :D)

And how long until the BE.2 joins her in the air for a duel?

Steady progress is being made on the wings. The dream would be to fly her next March, the Anniversary of BM’s father making the first flight in her from Sywell. But as always with restoration projects. What will be, will be. 😉

There could be things stirring on Saturday 15th November! 😉

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=85041

Plenty more educated people than me on the site, but most wooden engine bearers of WW-1 types were I think, simply the extension/reinforcement of the fuselage longerons, so would normally have been made of the same spruce-type woods.

Some aircraft might have used ash, this being heavier sometimes came in handy to get the centre of gravity into the right position!

By the end of WW1, some aeroplanes had already moved towards tubular steel mounts, although the DH60 Moth persevered with wooden mounts into the 1930s. A weakness of the DH60 was that in a heavy landing, the engine mount would break, taking the forward fuselage with it!!

Some interesting pics HERE (from ‘the other side!’)

A fascinating thread. I feel a bit sorry for the poor chap who thought he’d got away with a sneaky ‘off-piste’ landing at dusk, 48 years ago! 😀

Just out of interest, does anyone know which Gemini it was that B. Bira owned?

He certainly had a big interest in flying, both pre-, during and post-war and was a very enthusiastic sailplane pilot, as well as forming I believe, an airline back in his native Thailand.

I understand that the premier gliding trophy at the Long Mynd gliding site is still the Bira Trophy.