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BUFDRVR wrote:
If it's qn excess thrust issue, than that would weight it even further into the "Yes, sure the B-1 can do an Immelman" side. Of all the things the B-47 didn't have, thrust Remember, the B-47 did their immelmans from high altitude (and entered from a dive obviously), the Afghanistan Bone would be entering from straight and level, thus it becomes an excess thrust issue. See below. Well, fly around the pattern trailing a parachute is one... Tobogganing behind an overstressed KC-97 would be another. Cruising around, fully loaded (albeit a smaller load than a BUFF or Bone) at 40K+ and .90 mach. Nope. B-47E SAC: Max. Spd, 606 mph (M0.84) @ 16,300 ft.; 557 mph (M0.842) @ 38,550 ft.; Max. cr. spd., 495 mph (M0.75) @ 38,550 ft.; Svc. Ceiling 40,500 ft. Doing an immelman at high altitude (not possible for a BUFF...maybe for a Bone, but not from 30K+). The Immelmanns were done from the deck while making LABS tosses, starting in 1957. They went down there for the same reasons the B-52s did: defenses had driven them from high altitude to low. There were 6 B-47 crashes in the spring of 1958 brought on by fatigue failures due to these and pop-up maneuvers, which is why Project Milk Bottle was instituted, to replace the wing milk bottle connecting pin. Guy |
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