Snap rolls?

A snap roll is a one-turn horizontal spin. When you do it with elevator down, you get an inverted (horizontal) spin. Your choice.

From my meagre understanding, a snap is based around using the elevator to stall the wing, which effectively stops flying, and using the rudder to initiate the roll, which gives a result quite different to an aileron roll. The latter will tend to be axial, whereas a snap roll will be driven from the tail and results in more of a tumble around the CG.

You can combine a snap with ailerons to get a mega-fast roll, but I'm not sure what it's called.

As for up or down stick, they're both snaps, although up stick tends to be more common.

Poxy wrote: > As for up or down stick, they're both snaps, although up stick tends to be

...and in the cockpit, they feel *much* different.

Paul Ryan wrote in news:6rgze.2636$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com:

So then it's like a tight barrel roll?

No, it is a horizontal spin, with one turn only.

The effect of the aileron + elevator is a sort of a barrel roll... yes.

The "classic" barrel roll would have the aircraft exit pointed 90 deg t the line of entry. (which a WWI biplane would naturally want to do usin aileron+elevator for a sort of loop + turn

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As defined by the IAC (International Aerobatic Club)...

"Snap rolls also have to be flown normally on a straight line. A snap roll is similar to a horizontal spin. It is an autorotation with one wing stalled."

CJ

You learn something every day.

I thought a barrel roll was one in which the aircraft described a path as though it was sort of spiralling round the inside of a barrel rather than an axial roll in which the aircraft rotates round its longitudinal axis with no deviation from a straight path.

Malcolm

You thought correctly.

John Miller wrote in news:danaq5$prd$2 @n4vu2.n4vu.com:

Okay, gotcha. BTW, does countersteering improve aerobatics? ;-)

Hummina hummina...well, sometimes opposite rudder does!

John Miller wrote in news:darh44$r27$ snipped-for-privacy@n4vu2.nvu.com:

Jest kidding, saw your post about motorcycles. I know what you mean though, sometimes slapping a little opposite rudder gets someone setup for aerobatics.

Slapping a little opposite rudder on an R/O plane gets it to break the spiral dive and put it in a loop.

Thanks Noah,

My tongue was firmly embedded in my cheek when I posted.

Malcolm