Hawker vs. Glider Midair - with photo!

Discus 44 wrote:
There have been many photos of the Jet. While this is remarable, are
there any photos of the remains of the glider? It might shed some
light on where the jet ran into the glider.

The Hawker photos do show it. I believe the piece projecting at 1
o'clock from where the radome was is the spar joiner for the outer
panel. It would appear the glider was hit just outside mid-span.
Probably the right wing.

GC

Anyone with common sense
can see the Jet hit the glider and not the other way around as so many
so called :"journalists" have intimated. It is strange that so many
unknowledgeable people seem to be arm chair experts about this.

I would liek to see FLARM adopted here. It may be a better way than
having Xponders and ATC involved with soaring.

At 17:54 04 September 2006,
wrote:

Oh, and I
understand that UK military have neither TCAS/ACAS
nor other collision
avoidance, and many/most have no transponder either.

Chris N.

The last sentence is not strictly true as they have
IFF, a sort of super transponder with bells and whistles,
and it can be interogated by air traffic radars if
the pilot wants it to be, which in peacetime is most
of the time.

The last time I fell from an aircraft I dropped at
a leisurely rate of 60 m/s
Udo

to 256 m/s (the designers had skydivers in mind here
. Range is given
between 1km and 5km, it strongly depends on how the
antenna is mounted.

Regards
-Gerhard
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