Guy Alcala wrote:



Very simply, the wing had to fly at a high-enough AoA to fly sufficiently slowly for
the a/c to land on Essex class carriers. In order to achieve that AoA with the wing
rigidly attached to the fuselage, they would have had to chop off the after part of
the fuselage, mount the wing at a much higher fixed AoI, and/or give the a/c a taller
landing gear (to avoid dragging the tail), any of which would have been detrimental
to its performance. In addition, the pilot would have had to be sitting much higher
to have adequate view on the approach, also at a detriment to performance. CVA had
already designed the F7U Cutlass once, and had no wish to repeat it;-)

Guy

ROGER!!...very good, thanks Guy...I'm sure that I understood it
properly all along but I wasn't very good at explaining my
thoughts.

Plus, I kept getting waylaid by someone who has the wrong
understanding of it, but that's fine, at least I'm comfortable
with my understanding of it now.
--

-Gord.