More long-range Spitfires and daylight Bomber Command raids, with added nationalistic abuse (was: #1 Jet of World War II)

Guy Alcala wrote:

" wrote:

Guy Alcala wrote:

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[skipping a bit] "Tilting the wing upward during landing maneuvers allowed a
relatively slow landing speed, yet kept the F-8's fuselage at an AoA of about
5.5 deg. rather than 12.5 deg. as required with its wing down."


Guy, can you expound on that a little? I can't see how the angle
of the fuselage (AoI?) has any effect on the 'landing speed'.

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I think you're overanalyzing this. If the wing didn't tilt, then the whole
fuselage (assuming an AoI of 0 deg.) would need to be at 12.5 deg. AoA to have a
sufficiently slow landing speed.

But saying it that way makes it seem as if 'tilting the wing up'
(which you're not actually doing of course) makes it possible to
fly slower when actually you're tilting the *fuselage down* so as
to make it possible to land on a carrier.

You're not *tilting the wing up*, you're *tilting the fuselage
down*, right?. I know that it's just semantics but saying that
this system 'allows slower flight' isn't true is it?. I suppose
you could say that it allows slower flight *without banging the
tail on the deck etc* but it doesn't allow the a/c to 'fly
slower' in the sense that flaps do right?.



Instead, they achieved that low landing speed by
tilting the wing, which also gave them the benefit of a lower fuselage AoA for
view/clearance.

Guy

Well now, lessee...


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-Gord.