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Old 29th Dec 2008, 17:33
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ChristiaanJ
 
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Originally Posted by golfyankeesierra"
FPP, are you a pilot?
Are you?
Judging by your remarks you're not....
A wing needs Angle of Attack to fly.
Oversimplistic.... The AoA needs to be enough for the wing to generate enough lift to take off.
Rolling down the runway the AOA is zero.
Nonsense. The exact AoA depends on aircraft design, aircraft configuration, loading, exact state of the oleos, and probably half a dozen things I'm forgetting.
It won't fly and your tires will have all the friction it needs when you abort.
By the time you're close to rotation (and add a crosswind), there are already a lot of aerodynamic forces acting on the aircraft which make nonsense (again) of your comment.

Also try to find some crosswind landing video's on Youtube, preferably some crabbed (is it called traversed in English?) landings.
I think most of the people posting serious remarks here have DONE crosswind landings, and don't need to watch them on YouTube....

That said, there ARE some "interesting" crabbed landings on YouTube....
Kai Tak springs to mind.

CJ
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