"Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in :


"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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| "Mick" #$$#@%%%.^^^ wrote in news:Fb_Bk.17811$wr1.15157
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| "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).
| |
| | Now I thought that sideslips (and crabs--whatever the difference
| | between the two is...) were only to be used to handle
crosswinds.
| |
| | They're different and they aren't just used for crosswinds.
| |
| |
| | 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?
| |
| | 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.
| |
| |
| | Bertie
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You do a good job of being stupid.




Thenkew

Bertie