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drailton · 4 November 2009, 04:26 AM

Thanks for your reply, Mik. My query results from a 1922 accident report which stated that the pilot "climbed in a wide left hand turn to a height of just over 1,000 feet. He then attempted to loop the machine. From a vertically upward position the aircraft fell over into a spinning nose-dive which was only checked just before a collision with the top branches of a tree." This was also reported, or interpreted, as an Immelmann Turn. I am not sure if this refers to thr original WWI Immelmann Turn or the manouvre that is now described as such.

The report went on to state that "the accident was caused by errors of judgement on the part of the pilot due to inexperience." While this may be so I wondered if one of those errors was to attemp a manouvre this aircraft was not capable of with a full load.

4 November 2009, 04:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
drailton Observer Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 54	Thanks for your reply, Mik. My query results from a 1922 accident report which stated that the pilot "climbed in a wide left hand turn to a height of just over 1,000 feet. He then attempted to loop the machine. From a vertically upward position the aircraft fell over into a spinning nose-dive which was only checked just before a collision with the top branches of a tree." This was also reported, or interpreted, as an Immelmann Turn. I am not sure if this refers to thr original WWI Immelmann Turn or the manouvre that is now described as such. The report went on to state that "the accident was caused by errors of judgement on the part of the pilot due to inexperience." While this may be so I wondered if one of those errors was to attemp a manouvre this aircraft was not capable of with a full load.