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Navy Struggles With 'Fighter Gap'
On Apr 10, 10:43*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Dave wrote: : :IIRC, There was a specific non-combat maneuver which, when removed from the ilot's repertoire, cut the accident rate in half, for both models. It was :called, among other names, "bow to the crowd". It was done in a hover, and :was a tip the nose down and return maneuver that accentuated some instability :in the hover, and caused several crashes over the years. : There were several flight regimes where overly-close tolerances between the turbine blades would lead to a flameout of the engine. When you only have one, that sort of sucks. I'm only aware of one 'bow' crash and it didn't look like it was caused by instability. *It looked like an engine casualty, with a big gout of flame and the aircraft shooting down into the water. I have no idea if they still do this at air shows or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do. There was a Harrier in the show here Saturday (Thunder Over Louisville) and I don't believe it bowed. The hover portion of the routine was biased towards the crown on the other side of the river though, so I may simply have not noticed it. |
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