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Old 17th Nov 2005, 21:45
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MobiusTrip
 
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Indeed, if you have the luxury of NWS then asymm braking isn't going to be a factor.

Your 'other factor' is what I meant when I talked about asymm mainwheel drag (perhaps I expressed it poorly). It certainly would be minimised by appropriate spoiler/aileron. You could (to some extent) steer the F4 on the runway using aerodynamics to load/drag up the appropriate main gear.

I'll give it a go some time when we have suitable crosswinds and I have a spoilered AC to fly :-) If you get there first, please let me know what happened!

Cheers,

MT
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