1928 bird-shaped wing aircraft crash - video and photo

1928 bird-shaped wing aircraft crash. This is the Bonney Gull, flown by its inventor who was killed in a crash during its maiden flight. 1:27 video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1k6C8T8yEo

Fullsize image: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...t_fullsize.jpg

https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...d_aircraft.jpg


More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonney_Gull

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...474#post139179
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...250#post138563
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...925#post137521
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...657#post136540
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3246#post77725

The ratio of fixed to the movable portion of the horizontal stabilizer tail was all wrong the same thing with the wings the flaps were oversized for the size of the wings plus the spillage of air due to the upward inclination of the wings causes a lack of proper air flow over the horizontal stabilizer. would make an aircraft shaped like that difficult to control I flight making it all too easy to over compensate the controls.

It’s a bit of a shame as that design could be very beautiful with a few mods as almost suggested by Frank S.