I just spent an hour trying to upload a copy of M. Luvara's pic #3 from his "Voodoo tail camera snapshots" thread, but I kept getting the same error message that I got years ago when I posted here regularly, saying that my quota has been exceeded.
Oh well. Regardless, we just lost a dear friend to a wing failure that people saw clear signs of before he launched, and I can not phreaking accept the fact that most every one who matters here saw the same pic of Voodoo's wing during high G turn and NOBODY said anything at all about it in that thread or anywhere else.
Putting our latest spectacularly ugly and needless wing failure fatality aside for a moment (in which people who questioned the pilot where shined on that the wing was OK), remember that Sherman Smoot is not only alive and grateful for someone pointing out his wing's deformation a few years ago, but he is also competing better than ever.
That said, what the hell is wrong with those of us who see the same thing that I do, but remain silent? I for one can admit that I would not be here today if someone had not stepped up for my safety long ago. I don't believe for a heartbeat that Mr. Hinton is not aware of the problem that Voodoo's wing has during high G turns, and because of the fact that he is still campaigning the airplane, I am positive that he is no different than Lee Behel in that tragic respect.
Notice not only the crushed airfoils behind the leading edges on both wings around 3/4 span, but also the oil-canning of the inboard left wing.
C.R.
Oh well. Regardless, we just lost a dear friend to a wing failure that people saw clear signs of before he launched, and I can not phreaking accept the fact that most every one who matters here saw the same pic of Voodoo's wing during high G turn and NOBODY said anything at all about it in that thread or anywhere else.
Putting our latest spectacularly ugly and needless wing failure fatality aside for a moment (in which people who questioned the pilot where shined on that the wing was OK), remember that Sherman Smoot is not only alive and grateful for someone pointing out his wing's deformation a few years ago, but he is also competing better than ever.
That said, what the hell is wrong with those of us who see the same thing that I do, but remain silent? I for one can admit that I would not be here today if someone had not stepped up for my safety long ago. I don't believe for a heartbeat that Mr. Hinton is not aware of the problem that Voodoo's wing has during high G turns, and because of the fact that he is still campaigning the airplane, I am positive that he is no different than Lee Behel in that tragic respect.
Notice not only the crushed airfoils behind the leading edges on both wings around 3/4 span, but also the oil-canning of the inboard left wing.
C.R.
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