Skycop
Nothing more really. About 40 plus separate episodes of 3-4 mins each, standard egine development stuff. The B with a 230 sq ft plastic wing did handle better in the flare -you could afford to hold off to say 150/160 kts whereas the old 200 sq ft metal (SHAR) wing would not really fly mitout donk below say 170. You needed a reasonable quality of touchdown to avoid bouncing which would have been bad news. The lake bed was so FLAT that was easy. That is what is so important. An ordinary runway (like Boscombe) has so many ups and downs that the wing lift just after touchdown (bicycle gear - so u cant get rid of alpha after touchdown would v likely toss you back in the air before you could slow down. Not that we needed to do many lake bed landings (other than practice and qual exercises) as the Pegasus is a great relighter. You must remember when it stopped it was nearly always because we had deliberately surged it to establish the manoeuvre envelope so there was no reason to feel it would not light again when it had cooled down a tad.
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