Lake Dallas...30F. Take off to the south and miss the Lake Dallas Marina boat docks......final approach over water to the last few yards depending on lake level.
Here are a few shots from the MCAS Beaufort, SC airshow last year... My first airshow photography attempt. Comments welcome! (also my first attempt at a post with a link... Hope this works!) https://esherphotography.smugmug.com/Military/MCAS-Beaufort-Airsho/20003432_j4Qcd6#!p=1&n=12
Just some playing around I did for breakfast on my 41st B-day. <a href="%3Ciframe%20width=" 560"="" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B1KYJWznFd0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="">"><a href="%3Ciframe%20width=" 560"="" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B1KYJWznFd0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/B1KYJWznFd0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe>
Some first air to air shots of my newly restored Luscombe Photo ship was a beautiful Stearman ( N- Reg with 225 Hp ) Location was Just off Hayling Island , Solent area during flight from the Isle of Wight
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Stability is not an issue with proper design. The biggest issue is lack of elevator authority at low speed, as the elevator is out of the prop wash. Also the rudder needs to be stronger to support the elevator loads. It can also be scary to see the tail assembly flapping around during a spin, in a/c such as a Piper Tomahawk.
Plenty of nice T-tail aircraft with excellent elevator authority; King Air 200/300/350, Boeing 727, DC-9, etc. The Arrow, Lance and Tomahawk, Seminoles with T-Tails maybe not so much. (The Beech Ducjess seemed to be fine with a T-tail though) Somewhere there's got be a video of the Tomahawk elevator flapping about in a full stall..I hear that's sobering to experience first hand. With the Arrow one could compensate for its so called limited authority. I noticed in cruise the t-tail Arrow was notably smoother than a standard Arrow, less prop wash, virtually none in fact, over the tail. T-tails also have a larger chance of tailplane stalling in icing conditions. (cruciforms seem to be the worst though) and then some T-tails have unrecoverable stall characteristics (BAC-111, B727) due to the wing blanking the tail during very high AOA.