(Bob Ingraham) wrote in message . com...
snip What approach speed do you use on that Spitfire.

I'm supposed to watch my speed in addition to altitude, attitude, yaw,
the horizon, and enjoy the scenery too? And then there's the question
of German's lurking about, waiting to pounce on me. But I guess they'd
probably have a hard time getting all the way to Vancouver.... ;^)
Any, I certainly wasn't going very fast. I'd throttled back to about
1/3 power, had full flaps, and the approach was from a low altitude,
not a power dive.

Another question (I have lots of them, but I'll end with this one): I
can barely get the Concorde to lift off the runway. It's hard to
believe that the main runway at Vancouver isn't long enough. In fact,
an actual Concorde visited Vancouver during Expo '86 and must have
used that runway. Am I doing something wrong. There don't seem to be
any flaps or controls for flaps.

Do tail-less deltas even have flaps? I know Concorde has none. Are
you sure you're using full thrust and no breaks. Also, what is your
take-off speed? Remember that Sacremento ice cream store disaster of
the early 1970's?

snip No, I don't recall the ice cream store disaster. What
happenened?

In September of 1972, a Canadair Sabre was attemoting to depart an
airfield where it had sat for static display. The pilot, who
according to the innuendo I've heard had only about 3.5 hours total
time, was unable to get un-sticked, but aborted his take-off roll too
late. The ground-bound Sabre plowed through a barrier fence, crossed
a street, and careened into a crowded ice-cream parolor. About 20
people were killed, but the pilot was only injured.