A recent comment by a young passenger
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A recent comment by a young passenger
A few weeks ago I was doing the Young Eagles thing. The first one of the day was a young man of about 16. We took off, full tanks, at about 2280 lbs. or so, DA 4500 ft. He blurted out something I've heard several times before: "It's like being in an elevator". With T/O flaps one has the perception of being lifted by the wings, as opposed to following the engine into the sky.
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Re: A recent comment by a young passenger
Interesting... "Like an elevator" is the way my wife has also described its climb.
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Re: A recent comment by a young passenger
Yup -- the DA40 is the only plane I've flown that seems to "levitate" off the runway without requiring much pitch up. Interestingly, DA42s and DA62s with exactly the same wing/airfoil (outside of the engine nacelles) don't do this.
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