yes i (not surprisingly and not unbelievably!!) saw that on the video "the
flying wing - the Jack Northrop Story"
"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

Interesting about the Vulcan. What made me think of this was reading
about the supposed difficulty of landing the Northrop YB-49 Flying
Wing bomber at Muroc (later Edwards) AFB -- that it would just float
and float.

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:03:47 -0000, "M. H. Greaves"
wrote:

I think it would depend on the attitude and the angle of attack, also
wing
area; the vulcan would float because of the wing area, it pushed a
cushion
of air in front of it at low altitude.
"Cub Driver" wrote in message
.. .

Damnably impossible I'd say...the rules say 100 feet for 'pilot
bombing' and while this figure was likely (certainly) broken a
_few_ times nobody actually flew _knowingly_ with the prop tips
"3 to 5" feet above the water in a P2V. Trust me.

How much of a cushion do you have, from ground effect, in a
high-powered aircraft? I suppose it would be least in a fighter or a
B-26. But what about a B-25 or -17? If you were making 200 mph, say,
would the ground really want to reject you, or would you plow right
in?

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all the best -- Dan Ford
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