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Old 27th Aug 2002, 20:56
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BEagle
 
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Sorry you've had a rough day, John!

TSR2 had an aspect ratio of 1.97. Vey, very flat lift curve slope as a result. No snag when you're going at the spped of heat and there's plenty of V squared to compensate for the lack of Cl and S, but a real trial at low speed, particularly when you've got as much wing as a plucked fly. So much cleverness needed in the sucky squeezy blowy department and some very clever flappery to try to stop it falling out of the sky and to try to make it fly acceptably well enough on the approach for the pilot to be able to see the runway threshold over the nose during landing!

All the shots of TSR2 on the approach give the impression that it was pretty awkward to fly in that regime. Long flat approaches with very high incidence angles and hight thrust settings.

Apart from the shots of 'Bee' wazzing Warton at 420KIAS+ !!
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