At 12:56 PM 13/06/2008, you wrote:
It is American useage.
The wikipedia article seems like as good an explanation as I've seen.
Mike
I had never heard of "forward slips" before, however Wikipedia goes
on to deal with aeronautical slips in greater detail on another
page, including a not terribly helpful or convincing explanation of
this manoeuvre, as well as a marginally more reasonable explanation
of side slips at:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_%28aerodynamic%29#Forward-slip>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_%28aerodynamic%29#Forward-slip
Sideslips were of course, a common, almost mandatory practise on
approach with the early ES52's and especially with the ES57
Kingfisher. They were lots of fun, but fell out of favour (and
properly so) when gliders with serious airbrakes came along. I
have been occasionally asked to demonstrate a sideslip in more
recent check flights, a curious request given the excellent
airbrakes in most gliders these days - especially in the AS-K21 in
which the directive was uttered. ("You want me to do a
what??! .... Oh.... OK, here we go .....(sigh)"). Personally I
think they are best left alone in most - if not all - modern
gliders, unless of course it's a B-767.
Would any of the numerous exponents of aeronautics in this worthy
group care to comment on what they make of this "forward slip" thing?
Regards,
Terry.
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