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NASA Completes Its Third Cessna Crash Test
Popular Science ^
| 8/28/2015
| Atherton
Posted on 08/27/2015 6:49:49 AM PDT by Purdue77
NASA Completes Its Third Cessna Crash Test.
Popular Science (8/26, Atherton) reports on Wednesdays crash test of a Cessna aircraft by NASA as part of a study to try to improve emergency location transmitters (ELTs). This third test involved a tail-first crash into soil, which flipped the plane but didnt crush it in on its crash-test-dummy occupants so much.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: cessna; crash; test
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To: AFreeBird
Did they have ELTs in 78? yup ... at least i know they were required safety equipment for offshore sailboat racing anyhow
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posted on
08/27/2015 8:10:50 AM PDT
by
TheRightGuy
(I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
To: Nifster
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posted on
08/27/2015 8:21:13 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Section 20.)
To: central_va; Nifster
Any a/c will stall if you run out of airspeed.
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posted on
08/27/2015 8:51:09 AM PDT
by
Purdue77
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To: Purdue77
A C-152 when you kill power with full flaps and TRY to make it stall you have to pull so hard on the yoke it is ridiculous. It actually helps to have the weight of someone else in the plane. Ballooning down the runway is a common in a C-152...
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posted on
08/27/2015 8:54:59 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
That assumes wings level. You can accelerate the stall if you dip one wing.
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posted on
08/27/2015 9:01:57 AM PDT
by
Purdue77
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To: Purdue77
I actually think the C-152 bizarre slow speed flight characteristics plus being a difficult plane to land “nicely” make it a poor primary trainer. It is not a confidence builder at all.
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posted on
08/27/2015 9:22:17 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
On a cold day those things never want to land!
To: central_va
I worked for Cessna in the late 70’s. Learning to fly thru their flying club was cheap, cheap, cheap. And, I didn’t have a choice of what I flew.
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posted on
08/27/2015 9:52:23 AM PDT
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Purdue77
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To: Purdue77
I survived. My flight check instructor survived. And, the airplane survived. Crash???
That was a GREAT landing!
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posted on
08/27/2015 9:53:50 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: Purdue77
Wouldn’t Cessna have thousands and thousands of crash test results already? They’ve only been around for 88 years.
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posted on
08/27/2015 9:55:33 AM PDT
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Teacher317
Oh yes. Clyde had 13 before he learned how to turn his aircraft without crashing.
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posted on
08/27/2015 10:13:48 AM PDT
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Purdue77
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To: jaydubya2
On a cold day I would adjust my aiming point for landing about 200 yds this side of the numbers which is a really stupid thing to do. But ballooning is a real issue even if you do everything right. The C-152 is a great sporty aircraft, especially the aerobatic version, which I flew in briefly, but a terrible trainer IMO ..
If you are thinking about flying pay a little extra and rent a 172, vastly superior trainer.
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posted on
08/27/2015 10:55:28 AM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
I trained in a brand new C172, superior trainer indeed.
...heh, too bad the trainee(me)wasn't worth a sh...
To: Purdue77
Did not argue that....never said you COULDN”T stall it merely said it was hard to stall
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posted on
08/27/2015 11:44:28 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Purdue77
“I conducted a crash test in 1978 with a Cessna 152 when I stalled it about 12 feet over the runway.”
12 inches is typically a bit better.
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posted on
08/27/2015 5:44:38 PM PDT
by
BobL
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