Cub Driver wrote:
How much of a cushion do you have, from ground effect, in a
high-powered aircraft? I suppose it would be least in a fighter or a
B-26. But what about a B-25 or -17? If you were making 200 mph, say,
would the ground really want to reject you, or would you plow right
in?


Seems like the thing to do is to trim the nose up and manually force it down.
Then if you relaxed for a second, you'd naturally float up away from the water.



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