GROUND LOOP T-6 Landing Mishap!

in other words he fucked up ? but blaming something else

Ah no damage, it’s okay!

Laughed my tits off!!😂😂

That was not cheap. Can happen to anyone.

OUCH!

But was the tailwheel locked??

Bad Landing and Overbrakes left Wheel..Pilot Error

Yesterday I damaged my plane in the same way, On the second flight, in calm. before etigo well managed and with wind in side. Happens

He got his tail dragger advanced training rating with that experience.

Ground loop

Hey Walter.... what a way to f-up a stellar record.

некрасивый самолёт

He just "forgot" to press left pedal or he pressed it earlier then he should and tryed to compensate the balans at non leveled ground

He just felt like doing a Donut 😂

19,000 hrs? I could do this with half that time.

TWO KINDS OF TAIL WHEEL PILOTS.
ONE THAT HAVE GROUND LOOPED AN AIRPLANE.
ONE THAT WILL GROUND LOOP AN AIRPLANE.

От полётов отстранить!!! Фронтовые сто граммов не выдавать!!!! Поставить вечным дежурным по столовой!!!

Он что ебанулся на такой скорости повороты делать .

Well, sitting at a keyboard you can imagine you're in a perfect world. Hell, you even have the advantage of hindsight. Flying a taildragger is no joke. Especially if you have the slightest mechanical mishap, all you can so is your best.

Hope the starboard wing repair went smoothly. I raise my glass to you sir!

She'll fly again. My brother flies a beautiful SNJ. I understand.

I'd like to see a drawing of the system so I can learn something from his troubles.

As I mentioned before the T6 has no springs. It has steering cables. Now if he had said he broke a steering cable I would say ok. But to say there was a broken spring laying in bottom of tail is B.S

Right brake may have saved it .

I'm stunned that folks would fault this guy for a tough landing with broken equipment. He has 19,000 air hours and for the guys who chastised him...that is a boatload of landings. Good grief.

That will buff right out

Dit lijkt wel een aflevering van Allo Allo

Walter Eichhorn is a true flying legend with over 36000 hours flight experience and he is one of only worldwide 110 members of „Living Legends of Aviation“

That can happen to anyone, regardless of experience.

Also, he didn't use his turn signal for that left turn...

No one is immune from a ground loop.

Rudder control loss, tail dragger, he was lucky. Not the pilot's fault per se.

Could not see a malfunctioning rudder. During the last sequence of landing, there was given correct counter momentum with the rudder but it did not prevent from spinning.

I call broken spring causing tailwheel to turn to one side BULLSHIT! It seems tobe working fine on the taxi back to the hanger.

Does anyone know how Al Goss's plane crashed?

"It's never happened to him before."

Every pilot gets to say that about something in their career.

Never used a tailwheel lock. Beech 18, DC-3, C-46, Turbine Dromader, Howard DGA etc. Bush. You don't need a damn tailwheel lock.

Doesn't matter how much total time. How much tailwheel time does he have and how much in the T6. There was no mechanical failure before the ground loop. He was able to taxi away just fine turning left and right after landing. The spring broke during the ground loop otherwise he would have realized it was broken on takeoff. He also had incorrect aileron input.

DUMMSCHWÄTZER..sonst nix...

The reason the spring was broken was probably because his initial touchdown was hard and it got banged pretty good.  It appeared to me  that the tailwheel stayed straight the whole time [so that didn't make him turn  and also just before he went into the ground loop I saw him give rudder in that direction [left]  ....why would he do that?  Never flown a T-6 so no idea how effective the rudder is at slow speeds but some tail draggers don't really need the tail wheel to control until they're at taxi speed.

Surly after such an incident the pilot should have shut down the engine and inspected the aircraft, at the very most move clear of the runway and then inspect the runway for FOD. Was it safe to taxi back to the hanger past other aircraft, he didn't know this, the aircraft isn't serviceable due to the incident so wasn't serviceable during the taxi back.

My glider flight instructor told me never to land with a tailwind.

It can happen to the best poor plane hope he got her flying again.

Two types of conventional gear pilots: those who have ground looped, and those who will.

That‘s a stunning capture! May I feature this landing in one of my next episodes? Of course with a link back to your original video. Cheers!

Putting his private phonenumber out there is kind of nasty guys…

Outch! Can I use this video in a compilation I'm working on? I'll credit you in the video.

After reading some comments it is time to correct the most wild speculations.
During landing one control cable of the tailwheel got stuck, both cables are connected to the rudder via 2 springs, so steering the rudder to one side disconnected one spring and the other pulled the tailwheel to a 90 degree angle to the rudder, during rollout the force on the rudder was strong enough to keep the plane straight but when slowing down the force reduces and the wheel took over and that was the moment of the tight left turn, the runway is only 3meters wide and at that point was a small dip in the grass where the right maingear rolled through just enough for the right wing to whack the ground.
We removed the wing and it was repaired after about 4weeks we could reinstall the wing and modify the control cables so that would never happen again.
I know who’s fault it was but I’m not going to tell, what I can say is that it was not a pilots error.

He really needs some flying lessons.

how could anyone possibly know when the spring was disconnected. i'm guessing it happened during the ground loop itself. rudder is not nearly as powerful as aileron on the landing rollout. almost all pilots are unaware of their aileron inputs on the landing rollout and steer like they would in their car which is backwards. stop the video a few times as the right wing is coming around you can see the right aileron is up which means he steered right as the plane was going off the left side of the runway which is totally backwards. this will guarantee a ground loop since no amount of right rudder will stop the left ground loop once you steer that aileron right.

That about what a T6 is good for