Scudrunners

Colonel wrote: Wed Nov 18, 2020 11:07 pm When it veered right,

FULL POWER

to get some air over that rudder! Get airborne, get your heart rate
under 200, figure out what's going on and try again, knowing about
the failure.

This should not have come as a surprise.
On the retracts, better to check for brake pressure after the gear is down instead of doing it before.
Or if at all which seems to be the case here, judging from him verbalizing his flow.

Sad to see that it looks like two top aerobatic pilots died in a prototype aerobatic aircraft in France:

https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr ... 24340.html

This was a recent Extra crash in England. Fortunately survived. Will see if I can post the accident report here at some point:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxf ... e-60967351