F-104 : rolling
Not totally related, but an ex-F-104 driver once told me about the time when one airframe had got a bit bent by a student applying a bootfull of rudder at too high a speed. The high tech solution was to take it up to the same speed again and boot the rudder in the opposite direction. Hey presto, one straight F-104...
I'm not sure how they wrote that up in the tech log.
I'm not sure how they wrote that up in the tech log.
[QUOTE][Not totally related, but an ex-F-104 driver once told me about the time when one airframe had got a bit bent by a student applying a bootfull of rudder at too high a speed. The high tech solution was to take it up to the same speed again and boot the rudder in the opposite direction. Hey presto, one straight F-104...
I'm not sure how they wrote that up in the tech log. /QUOTE]
As simply as you put it, I imagine!?
FB
I'm not sure how they wrote that up in the tech log. /QUOTE]
As simply as you put it, I imagine!?
FB
Below the Glidepath - not correcting
I notice that none of our helicopter mates have joined this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6UxS4dAZfs
Fuse 13
Beagle/Wander00 et al.
My recollection is that the accident where the fin came off was due to rolling in the vertical with g still applied rather than intentional use of rudder.
That said Boscombe did issue a clearance certainly in '77 for a 'twinkle' with fuse 13 removed and the limits were:
1.360 degrees roll max
2.MIN 330 kt (to limit aoa therefore sideslip?) (I'm a bit hazy on the exact speed)
3. 1g
How many other jets do you know with a min speed for application of full aileron?
It looked pretty good but needed a bit of spacing as the jet moved about 10 ft right and 10ft down.
Hope this helps
Thrusts a must
My recollection is that the accident where the fin came off was due to rolling in the vertical with g still applied rather than intentional use of rudder.
That said Boscombe did issue a clearance certainly in '77 for a 'twinkle' with fuse 13 removed and the limits were:
1.360 degrees roll max
2.MIN 330 kt (to limit aoa therefore sideslip?) (I'm a bit hazy on the exact speed)
3. 1g
How many other jets do you know with a min speed for application of full aileron?
It looked pretty good but needed a bit of spacing as the jet moved about 10 ft right and 10ft down.
Hope this helps
Thrusts a must
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Only time a helo looks cool to a FJ pilot is when it hovers above him trying to hoist him out of the north sea....... so I've heard..
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An F-35B can motor backwards at 30 knots in STOVL Mode 4 but anyhoo here is the A-4K KAHU Demo Pilot motoring skyward vertically rolling for all his might spouting those bright thingos at the end of display video below. IF bored start at: 3minutes 15seconds
https://youtu.be/GqFTC5Cj5xE?t=195
https://youtu.be/GqFTC5Cj5xE?t=195
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