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Aston Down about 15 years ago. The incident was in the S&G accident
reports. Stephen "W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.)." wrote in message ... I did not witness the incident which I related, I am not sure if it is just an urban legend. If you witnessed yours you are ahead of me. Are you willing to tell us where and when? There is not much to tape on a Slingsby Kestrel 19, I owned one once. W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.). Remove "ic" to reply. "Stephen Cook" ] wrote in message ... You may of course be talking about a different incident, but if this is the event I witnessed it should read like this: Did you hear the story about the pilot who rigged his Kestrel, towed it to the other side of the airfield where the launch point was that day, took a launch, flew around for a while, landed and on the ground run the wings fell off - no mainpin. Stephen "W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.)." wrote in message ... Did you hear the story about the pilot who rigged his Kestrel, towed it to the other side of the airfield where the launch point was that day, just as he got there the wings fell off - no mainpin. Very lucky the wind was not in the other direction, or the wings would still have been on when he reached the launch point. W.J. (Bill) Dean (U.K.). Remove "ic" to reply. |
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Andreas Maurer wrote in message . ..
One might mention that NASA tried to recreate this 232'2 landing using a simulator (as well as an F-15). No aircrew *ever* was able to touch down their aircraft soft enough to make the crash survivable. Bye Andreas NASA followed up with a test using a modified MD-11. The FADEC control laws were changed to allow much greater authority in engine trim and the Flight Control Computer (FCC) software was modified to control pitch and roll with FADEC thrust commands. (On an MD-11 a single autothrottle servo drives all engines in parallel but the FCC to FADEC interface provides independent thrust trim to each engine) The program demonstrated that it was possible to control the aircraft in pitch and roll with thrust only using normal inputs from the autopilot mode control panel. Several approaches were made I think at least one sucessful landing was demonstrated. (I was only involved with the lab test and never saw the flight test reports). Andy |
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