Jamie
Well Known Member
This past Saturday Scott Will and I flew over to Augusta (Daniel Field) for some lunch. Scott has previously written about the place we ate at here. The line dude even drove us over to the gate in his golf cart and we didn't buy any fuel or anything. Nice guy.
Anyway, I asked Scott to get some air-to-air photos of my plane. In particular, I wanted him to do some of me rolling. Well...
That was successful! I wish the horizon was in the background for the full effect, but oh well.
Anyway...the purpose of this post was in one of the pics he captured of me as I was rolling.
Check out the zoomed in version:
Notice the oil canning happening in a substantial portion of the tailcone (please excuse the oily belly).
From the baggage wall (F-706) back you can see the skin wrapping around the spar/rib that runs to the next bulkhead (F-707). You can also see the oil canning running back to the F-708.
This was with a relatively light pull on the stick to pitch up for the roll -- about 1.5G I would guess. Anyway, I found it interesting and I think that with all the rolling I do if I build another -7 I would probably run a couple of j-stringers down those areas that are oil canning in this picture.
BTW: The pics make it look like we were a lot closer than we really were. He has a fancy SLR camera with a big lens and the photos were cropped.
Thanks, Scott for the pics. They were great.
Anyway, I asked Scott to get some air-to-air photos of my plane. In particular, I wanted him to do some of me rolling. Well...
That was successful! I wish the horizon was in the background for the full effect, but oh well.
Anyway...the purpose of this post was in one of the pics he captured of me as I was rolling.
Check out the zoomed in version:
Notice the oil canning happening in a substantial portion of the tailcone (please excuse the oily belly).
From the baggage wall (F-706) back you can see the skin wrapping around the spar/rib that runs to the next bulkhead (F-707). You can also see the oil canning running back to the F-708.
This was with a relatively light pull on the stick to pitch up for the roll -- about 1.5G I would guess. Anyway, I found it interesting and I think that with all the rolling I do if I build another -7 I would probably run a couple of j-stringers down those areas that are oil canning in this picture.
BTW: The pics make it look like we were a lot closer than we really were. He has a fancy SLR camera with a big lens and the photos were cropped.
Thanks, Scott for the pics. They were great.