Originally Posted by
Tim McLelland
'Course this doesn't explain how on earth you'd get the aircraft into the place safely in the first place, unless you waited for a day with a pretty decent headwind?!
Exactly.
They were, as you know, delivered to short and to soft airfield but also at basic weights. A min landing run, minimal fuel, max aerodynamic braking, chute stream etc and it could do a very short landing but not all the time.