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Old 7th Jan 2006, 17:23
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TheShadow
 
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Underwing Mounted Engines Produce a Pitch-up? Really?

RatherbeFlying
1. Perhaps draw a 2D airplane in pencil and then get your eraser and rub out the runway.
Now imagine that you're flying along and manage to beat the G/A sensing and select symmetric reverse.
You're going to pitch nose-up? Really?
2. Now imagine that you're flying along and select just ground spoilers (and they come out). You're going to pitch nose-up are you? Really?
3. Don't bother doing the same exercise with the wheel-brakes. It's just going to wake up the stowaways in the wheel-wells. I always hate that when I'm travelling in steerage. It's like poking a stick into a bear in hibernation. It's neither polite nor politically correct. You're not a ticket inspector. Your sole reason for sitting there is to plan ahead on how you're going to stop that sonofabitch within the confines of a slippery runway.
And no, I'm not trying to get up your nose. Nose-upness isn't my style.
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