From a friend who referred this: "This is an old video. At 00:19 there is a photo and there is a front tube in place. 4 seconds later, as he is taking off, the tube is gone."
Uploaded on Dec 10, 2011-...
Apologies to any deaf members but this guy is very funny, There are heaps of You Tube videos of him, just look under David Ardman or interpretive dance
I wondered how much extra drag my round down tubes create versus an airfoil type tube. I grabbed this link from another site (name not mentioned), and I was very surprised to see this professor's test results. Really interesting!
...floats due to the half empty fuel tank and empty jerry can. He survived the crash. He also said his control bar went front and took the compression tube and worked as huge air brake....
...rike. High alpha means high angle of attack of the wing. In a trike, it is the position that the control bar is pushed out all the way to the front tube. It slows down the touch down...
...ing into the kids 'inheritance money' to fix my trike! check the control tube! coulda really hurt.
this...eat belt and being kinda' upside down seemed a 'lot longer'. the control tube is gonna have an internal cab...