{"id":3394,"date":"2015-05-22T15:21:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.mechadigital.net\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T20:37:56","slug":"130-frank-lloyd-wright-and-the-place-for-opinion-in-aviation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/130-frank-lloyd-wright-and-the-place-for-opinion-in-aviation\/","title":{"rendered":"#130 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Place for Opinion in Aviation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y\u2019know how sometimes you\u2019re supposed to hear your parent\u2019s voice come out of your own mouth?\u00a0 That happens to me from time to time.\u00a0 But lately, it\u2019s my grandfather I hear a lot.\u00a0 You see, my grandfather was \"image591GAlbert\"<\/a>an irascible old fellow.\u00a0 A successful architect who had graduated from the Beaux Arts in France and was a staunch adherent of the Rococo school, he was both politically and occupationally conservative\u2026\u00a0 \u201cConservative\u201d, hell! \u00a0He was an opinionated old curmudgeon!\u00a0 He was famous for observing, \u201cFrank Lloyd Wright, who is frankly WRONG\u2026\u201d<\/h3>\n
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G. Albert Lansburgh as a young man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, when I find myself thinking that someone is wrong, I try to figure out if this is a matter of opinion.\u00a0 If it\u2019s opinion, then no one is wrong, just of a different opinion.\u00a0 But if it\u2019s NOT a matter of opinion, such as whether the earth is flat or not, then I think it\u2019s okay to snort like my grandfather would and state that something is wrong.<\/h3>\n

Do you see where I\u2019m going with this?\u00a0 You will.<\/h3>\n

Lately, I\u2019ve had a lot of fliers demonstrate difficulty with the three-point landing.\u00a0 After a lot of investigating, I finally figured out what the problem was:\u00a0 Somewhere in their training, some yayhoo had told them that they should put the airplane in a landing attitude and keep it there until touchdown.\u00a0 I guess altitude is controlled by power.\u00a0 Here comes my grandfather.\u00a0 They are just plain WRONG!<\/h3>\n

The key to a successful three-point landing in a tailwheel airplane or full stall landing in a tricycle gear airplane is simply an unsuccessful attempt to prevent a landing with no power.\u00a0 If the only control over lift you have is to increase the angle of attack with the elevator, then you simply continue to maintain an altitude of one inch off the ground by increasing the angle of attack until you have no more elevator left.\u00a0 If you allow the airplane to sink and touch the ground BEFORE you\u2019ve run out of elevator, then you have a premature touchdown, maybe a bounce and a lousy landing.\u00a0 If you \u201cover-flare\u201d and increase the angle of attack too much during that landing flare, you will zoom up and end up stalling at an unacceptable altitude.\u00a0 It\u2019s as simple as that.\u00a0 The Acme Flying School teaches to use power all the way through the landing approach and flare.\u00a0 My OPINION is that continued use of that technique will deprive you of any skill-building at power-off approaches (read \u201cEngine Failure\u201d).\u00a0 The use of power as a last-ditch method for stopping \u201cover-sink\u201d is okay, but it will end up in a longer landing and it should be avoided if possible.<\/h3>\n

I think that the savvy reader can tell when I present an idea as opinion or fact.\u00a0 At least that\u2019s my opinion!<\/h3>\n

Happy Swooping!<\/h3>\n

Brian<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Somewhere in their training, some yayhoo had told them that they should put the airplane in a landing attitude and keep it there until touchdown. I guess altitude is controlled by power. Here comes my grandfather. They are just plain WRONG!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,67,165,174,178,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tailwheelersjournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}