On Mar 6, 2:25*pm, Chris Reed wrote:
Frank Whiteley wrote:
This might make you feel better about a few of your landings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY

Song is a bit off color.

Even those landings where the rudder was used didn't seem to have much
rudder *to* use, nor did the rudder seem to make a lot of difference to
where the aircraft was pointing.

That plus, apparently, no aileron control after touchdown, plus the fact
that full flap gives about the same float as a no airbrake landing in a
conventional glider, suggests this is rather a handful.

Would the aerodynamicists know whether these characteristics result from
optimisation for high altitude flight?

Just Kelly Johnson's idea of a sick joke ;-)

Craig