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Don Maxwell - Mar 22,2013
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Here's a short video showing some of the flight capabilities of the SeaRey: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTznkHKYRRM&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTznkHKYRRM&feature=youtu.be</a><br /><br />(Not for the faint of heart, nor for the ordinary SeaRey pilot.)
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Joe Varner - Mar 22,2013
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Yep, seen this pilot doing this maneuver in person more than once and it is very impressive. Everyone remember that the unknown pilot  is a trained professional and never try this yourself. Don't know much about those fancy maneuvers, what do you call it ?
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Russ Garner - Mar 22,2013
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Don, we can say his name I don't think he gives fart about it. He had a young attractive employee of the SPA in the plane with him during his little demo, if it's the one you videoed at my fly-in. Afterward I asked her what she thought of the ride, she replied ' It was ok but my daddy is a fighter pilot and I've been flying with him since I was old enough to be strapped in the seat of one of his planes'. This maneuver is a wing-over that he has figured out how far he can go and stay on the positive side. From the ground it looks almost like a loop.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 22,2013
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Russ, this was a different place and a different passenger, but the maneuvers were about the same. On another occasion he gave me a similar demo over the lake between yours and Kermit's. I had done some acro in a Pitts and a Super D, but found the ride with him tremendous fun. He started with a wingover but rolled inverted and kept positive g by pulling, pretty much as in this video. I enjoy doing wingovers in my SeaRey, but am leery of getting inverted. If you don't do it exactly right the engine will stop, and if you do it exactly wrong you may not regret it very long.<br /><br />Joe, it's sort of a wingover that turns into a split-s. I've seen it described somewhere, but can't remember what it's called.
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Russ Garner - Mar 23,2013
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Don, I think the point were he rolls back out as he comes over the top makes it a wing-over but like you say he is close to inverted and that's a acro maneuver if it goes past 60 degress. For my birthday Lou Ann treaded some dog grooming with a friend of ours for a ride in his Great Lakes. I got to do some loops, rolls, crop dusting moves that included split-s maneuvers. Most fun I've had in awhile but she didn't warn me what was coming and I eat a big breakfast and almost lost it.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 23,2013
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Russ, in both this video and the ride I had--and one other other I've seen--he got well past 90 degrees of bank. I saw the horizon at about 120 or 130 degrees. But because he kept the wing at close to 1 g all the time, it didn't feel unsettling. He's really good. The farthest I've gone in my own SeaRey is about 95 degrees, and only then when I was already in practice. I wouldn't want anyone to start out with that in mind. In any airplane like a SeaRey you have to be very careful, especially in the recovery. And keep in mind that this video shows a descending maneuver, not level flight.
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Russ Garner - Mar 23,2013
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Don, I think the maneuver he is doing is an Immelmann turn which was a famous dog fighting maneuver. It develops less G loads than the Split S will.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 24,2013
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That's pretty much the way it looks to me, Russ. I'm not sure what to think about calling it an Immelmann, though. It's definitely not the modern Immelmann, which is a half-loop with a roll. And it's not the earlier version, a yawing turn that is essentially a hammerhead.<br /><br />There's no yaw in the manuever we're talking about. It's flown in coordination all the way through.
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Russ Garner - Mar 24,2013
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There are only so many maneuvers one can do that look like this one he is doing, to put a tag on it may be difficult. I guess you could spend the whole day arguing about it. A video from inside the cockpit or a camera mounted out on the wing like the once I do with the GoPro would help.
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Joe Varner - Mar 24,2013
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I wonder if he has ever done the same maneuver in a classic.
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Don Maxwell - Mar 24,2013
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I'd guess that he probably has, Joe, but in either version, it would be essential to watch the airspeed and the g-load. As I said above, it's not a maneuver for us ordinary SeaRey pilots. <br /><br />(If you want a more technical discussion, why not start one on STS?)
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Matt Tucciarone - Mar 23,2013
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I think the unknown passenger in this video may be my wife, who got the ride of her life at Russ's fly-in a few years back.<!-- >'"><br><font color=red size=6>' or > missing in user HTML. Please fix the HTML.</font> -->
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Don Maxwell - Mar 23,2013
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Sorry, Matt, not Debbie--although she did get a good ride. This passenger was about 20 years old and had come along with her boyfriend and another young couple.
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