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"Airball" Concept wins EAA Safety Grand Prize

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"Airball" Concept wins EAA Safety Grand Prize

" AIRBALL " . Interesting new concept. This thing just won a $25,000 contest prize at OSH 2016 from the EAA Safety Committee.

I wonder if it will need to be tweaked for different aircraft. Seems different planes have different characteristics, and slipping a plane on final with 40 degree flaps for example might be ok for one plane but possibly disastrous for others ( early Cessna 170s) .

Link: https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-multimedia/eaa-airventure-news/eaa-airventure-oshkosh/07-27-2016-airball-wins

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Excerpts:
Airball synthesizes air data from a number of sensors and graphically presents it so that a pilot can quickly understand the current flight state of the airplane. A blue ball on the display grows, shrinks, and moves around the display as airspeed, angle of attack, and yaw change. Keeping the ball the right size, and in the right place, ensures that the airplane is well outside any regime that may result in a LOCI accident.......
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Styled after the XPRIZE that launched development of the commercial space travel industry, EAA’s Safety Committee created the prize to stimulate development of ideas and innovations that will, at least initially, seek to reduce the current rate of LOCI accidents within the experimental amateur-built aircraft fleet.
With GPS, Highway In The Sky, Airball, etc., why soon there won't be any need to look outside anymore. :wink:
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Re: "Airball" Concept wins EAA Safety Grand Prize

Music was nice.

Maneuvers with NO hand on a throttle? :shock:

All that with NO rudder inputs displayed? Course I coulda missed something at the beginning.
Maybe it was an Ercoupe. :D

Must be gettin' too old as I do not remember having to twist a yoke that hard to stop a spin!

Someone needs to give the person on the left a tranquilizer and or tie their foot back!! :twisted:

Looks like it would work better if you were cross-eyed to start with. [-X

Might be more fun with a cat in the cockpit. [-X

Next time I see them Wright fellas I'm gonna ask em how they did all their flying with only one instrument the Oil Pressure guage. :mrgreen:

Wannabe goin ta sleep now. :wink: :wink:
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