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bret Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Tumbles in the Extra 300" 07-27-03, 14:50z  Hello all, This is my big debut to this message board. I'm pretty new to Aerobatics, but joined the IAC and have one contest under my belt. I like the good'ol Decathlon, but decided to move up to a hot shot machine. One of the things I really like about the Extra is the ability to do tumbles and tail slides as well as its handling. I'll be bold and state my understanding of the subject (correct me if I'm wrong) and ask my question: So it is my understanding that a knife edge spin is not a spin at all, but rather a tumble. My instructor and I have done some experimentation and it seems tricky to get the axis of tumble to be stable. The entry we have used is like a hammer to the left, but at the knife edge attitude at the top of the turn I neutralize rudder and push the stick forward. The problem is that it falls off the tumble axis only after 1 turn. Is there a trick to it? Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Tumbles in the Extra 300    bret       07-27-03              RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    DHamblin       07-28-03       1            RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    bret       07-30-03       2                 RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    DHamblin       08-01-03       3                      RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    bret       08-02-03       4         RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    Patty_Wagstaff       08-08-03       5            RE: Tumbles in the Extra 300    DHamblin       08-11-03       6

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