"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| Amine wrote in news:18e46a13-6294-4b68-9775-
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| Hey,
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| Some of you may have heard of Air Canada 143 [http://www.youtube.com/
| watch?v=dfJIpA2gv1g] which ran out of fuel in mid air and had to make
| an emergency descent at velocities way above the normal limits. The
| pilot's makeshift technique was to engage a sideslip to decelerate the
| aircraft (which by then had no flaps, and only minimal hydraulics).
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| Now I thought that sideslips (and crabs--whatever the difference
| between the two is...) were only to be used to handle crosswinds.
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| They're different and they aren't just used for crosswinds.
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| I
| didn't read anywhere that they could be used to bleed excessive speed,
| although it makes sense from an aerodynamics perspective. Anyone out
| there used sideslips for anything other than crosswind approaches?
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| PS: I have read about many cases of jetliners that had to make
| emergency descents at abnormally high speeds, but the AC143 seems the
| only one to have used the sideslip.
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| it isn't.
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| Bertie