Talk:Stall turn

Maneuver components?

The article's description of the Fieseler maneuver must be incomplete, because pitch changes (up and down) alone will not alter direction unless the airplane exits the maneuver inverted. (I doubt that it does.) Is there a roll or yaw component in here somewhere? (Is this a hammerhead?) I've found one source of unknown credibility online for this maneuver, which contains an incomplete description similar to the one in the article. Are there better sources? Jim Ward ^{(talk·stalk)} 00:12, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Although I don't know any verifiable sources on the webs, I'v seen fellow pilots performing it a lot. Yes, there is a yawning component: First the airplane is put on a 90 degrees climb (I don't know at what power setting, though); when the aircraft approaches stall speed, the rudder pedal is fully depressed, executing a slight yaw; the airplane looses speed and begins to fall down; then the plane quickly yaws to the side, due to the effects of weight distribution -there's usually more weight at the front, while the tail is lighter (when seen from the ground, the dropping aircraft resembles a hammer coming down). The aicraft speeds down, with the nose pointed down at 90 degrees; after the aircraft has cleared the stall speed, recovery begins, and the pilot brings the airplane back to level, now the heading is opposite of the beginning of the maneuver. I don't know, however, how exactly the power is operated during the maneuver - all I know is that the power is reduced during the drop, then slowly increased when the recovery beggins.

Also, the maneuver is known, among pilots, as hammerhead - I've never heard the name "stall turn". Some pilots also refer to it as "reversion".Cpt Vidal (talk) 01:57, 24 October 2010 (UTC)