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Posted Monday, December 28, 2015 @ 11:41 PM  

Young Pitts flier Lauren Richardson derided my RF4D's slow roll rate, so I challenged her to fly a ten-second roll herself, just so that she could see how easy it is to fly a roll in a Pitts compared with the skill required to roll a Fournier.

Silly me!

http://youtu.be/ZHfTgvPDLcU

Having done that, in retaliation she challenged me to fly a Super Slow Roll.
A super-slow roll in contest aerobatics is one taking more than fifteen seconds to perform.

I think this one took eighteen seconds:

http://youtu.be/R7SglZ70s0o

She countered that with a 28-second roll, so I conceded defeat.

http://youtu.be/66AwzQRuRzY

As I told her, 'Not having any inverted systems, with the inexorable loss of airspeed, if I tried a 30-second SS Roll I would become stationary half-way around!'

It's not often I acknowledge anybody's superiority, but in this case I'm beaten!

Happy experimenting.

Yours, Bob

[Edit by Bob Grimstead on Monday, December 28, 2015 @ 11:44 PM]

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Flying and displaying Fournier RF4Ds VH-HDO and G-AWGN, building replica RF6B G-RFGB and custodian of RF6B prototype F-BPXV

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