Tom_Waarne

I would suspect fuel contamination firstly then any number of or issues (mechanical, electrical, medical etc.) Sad day for all. The roof looks large enough to possibly groundloop and sacrifice the plane.

svanarts

I won’t speculate on cause but I will say that my RV-4 gave no indication prior to a stall. It just unhooked and dropped.

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dbier

Our RV6A doesn’t have a stall horn but we’ve noticed while doing stall practice that the air stops coming through the panel vents about 2 seconds or so before it stalls. Recovery is easy (at least in practice) but without power the plane certainly does not glide like the 172s and Archers that we were used to. That’s the trade-off for the 180-190 mph cruise (when we feel like burning the fuel).