Initials - Unfinished Business
All the talk of slippy Hawks and 360kt breaks got me thinking of the 520kt break I did once in a Tornado, at the threshold and turning final in the correct place to boot. Max wingsweep, airbrakes, max AoA, draggy stores, and lots of flap when the wings did eventually come forward... shedding speed is something it definitely excelled at, and I bet plenty have done faster!
At the final Alconbury air show, one attraction of the flying display was a high speed flypast by an F-111. We watched as it came roaring in from the east with the wings fully swept, pulled hard....and went into serious wing rock. An FJ mate with whom I was talking had his eyes out on stalks - "I thought he was about to spear in off that", he said in rather a shaky voice.
On Day Two the flypast was repeated - but this time with the wings rather less swept!
On Day Two the flypast was repeated - but this time with the wings rather less swept!
recovery of 32+2 RAAF Mirages
Getting 20 F/A-18's into the air at once was crowned a major achievment a few years ago.
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
All the talk of slippy Hawks and 360kt breaks got me thinking of the 520kt break I did once in a Tornado
I would have liked to have watched one if the Binbrook survival scramble recoveries as they recovered back from the “trombone”.
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