Long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids (was: #1 Jet of World War II)

In article , Peter Stickney
writes
In article ,
(The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) writes:
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 02:04:33 -0400, (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

SNIP lots

That might be a reason for the Sutton Harness in a Spit- you wouldn't
want the pilot leaning forward causing the airplane to nose down!

The Sutton harness, because of that lousy pin-and-hole arrangement, was
only ever capable of stopping pear-shaped people from moving around.
RAF fighter pilots tended to be slightly slimmer...

(Actually, I have doen this with light airplaes, to demonstrate the
balance of forces to (captive audience) passengers - lean forward,
nose down, lean back, nose up.)

The refined version of this was carried out by a rugger team on a flight
in a small airliner some years ago. While the stewardess was busy in
the galley, the team members went to the back of the aircraft one by one
(at a rate calculated by a pilot member of the team to make the pilot of
the aircraft trim back slowly) and then at a given signal they all ran
forwards again...yeeehaaaa!

Cheers,

Dave

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Dave Eadsforth