Re: The Viper and memories of a distant universe
a private message reply to another member of our group after I got his post.
Video of a Viper flight included from my private message, and then one of my own.
PLZ note the tiny stick movements, so I guess that 1/8th inch shows up some of the time, heh heh.
My reply to a member.....
Thank you xxxxx
Brought back many memories of that neat little jet ( first FBW, and look at stick movements on a replay).
New oxygen connects and the helmet display for off-boresight aiming of the missiles and A-2-ground tgt acquisition, etc.. Whew!
Note the lack of lag when the dude relaxes pressure on the stick.
Think that we had all that back in the late 1970's, and only FBW accidents were related to the power supplies to the confusers.
The thing was magic, and although I had doubts about all the "protections", I became a believer very quickly. They never gave up, and we always had "something" left, even if pitots went FUBAR, and so forth. Not like AF447.
Unlike the 'bus and the Boeing designs, we had zero mechanical connections except to the blow down bottle for nose gear and the throttle cable to the motor. Even the family model did not have mechanical conections to the stick that Joe Baggodonuts was using.
Was a great time, and was blessed to participate.
For viewing enjoyment, try this sucker using Quicktime or Final Media Viewer of my leading edge flap failure landing.
http://www.sluf.org/warbirds/lef-landing.m4v
thanks for the nice words...