In article , Gord Beaman
?@?.? writes
I still don't see the purpose here unless it's _only_ advantage
is the second sentence in the quote there. Why would an increase
in AOA 'help the a/c slow down for a carrier landing'?...of
course it would 'slow down' BUT it'd now be way high on the
glidepath TOO. Just as it would be if you hauled back on the
stick...the _only_ advantage that I can see for this capability
of the F-8 is to lower the nose for better visibility from the
cockpit. Mind you, that must have been a large advantage imo.
'cause it seems to me that that'd be a big engineering project.

Concorde went with physically lowering the nose (out of the pilot's
view) and cranking the AoA right up.

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John