Lazair Slip movie

[lazair]

I thought I'd send in a short video of a slip.Since a thread was started
on lazair.
Rob Kerr

[rayjb60]

I have a question about the slip.

With the lazairs up turned tips turned sideways against the airflow, I wondering if there are any issues with strength, turbulence or buffeting of the lower wing.

Did you feel anything like that at all?

I was also wondering about the forces on the tail in a slip, and I thought I had read somewhere that it was not recomended due to someone having a tail failure of some kind, due to a slip....do you have any thoughts about that?

Also in my sailplane training days, they advised you to stop the slip at least 50' high so you have time to straighten out and establish your new descent rate for landing.....traveling at twice the speed of a Lazair though so there was less time to react....so maybe we could take it down to 25' for the Lazair as a good rule for safety.

It was very impressive however and good to know the Lazair has another method of descent control, besides the engines idling.

Thanks for posting the movie.

Ray

[bdiedenhofen]