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Old 4th Nov 2002, 19:32
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BEagle
 
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Correct. No HUD, just a relatively simple 'strike sight'. For a 'medium toss' attack, as you rushed in to the target, after you'd 'accepted' the attack with the under-throttle accept bar, at the 'moment critique' a 'pitch up' demand would cause part of the symblogy to move up the glass; you then attempted to catch it by pulling back on the control column. When all 6 analogue servos agreed, out came the pin, off came the bomb and you entered the 'toss recovery' manoeuvre - roll to 120 deg AoB, pitch down to the horizon, relax to 90 deg AoB, turn and descend to quit by the route of arrival with throttles fully forward..... Normally you'd get the bomb to within about 150 ft of the target having released it at 500 kts some 3 miles away!
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