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Old 19th Apr 2013, 13:22
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Not_a_boffin
 
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Correct. Which brings us back to post #37

QE is a slightly different kettle of fish with double the flightdeck beam, but it's still a huge swathe of real estate to surrender. Any concerns about brake failures with F35 and SRVL are going to be dwarfed by those where you've got two 11m rotors, spinning at several hundred rpm coming down the deck at you. Very definitely not for the faint-hearted.....
and post #45

Might be a bit easier on QEC with the initial pitiful number of cabs, but two 11m+ rotors coming at you at say 20 kts relative with only brakes to stop them is likely to require a fair bit of safety clearance.....
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