SR-71

Big John writes:

Although the pilot takes off and lands the airplane manually, the
navigation system is accurate enough to put the airplane on the runway
in zero-zero conditions after flying nonstop from Californiato Iraqand
return with four inflight refuelings.

I'm not so sure about that. The ANS was accurate to within half a mile or so,
as I recall. It wasn't good enough for a landing in zero visibility. Of
course, the published accuracy for the ANS could be (dramatically)
understated.

Mxsmanic wrote:
Big John writes:

Although the pilot takes off and lands the airplane manually, the
navigation system is accurate enough to put the airplane on the runway
in zero-zero conditions after flying nonstop from Californiato Iraqand
return with four inflight refuelings.

I'm not so sure about that. The ANS was accurate to within half a mile or so,
as I recall. It wasn't good enough for a landing in zero visibility. Of
course, the published accuracy for the ANS could be (dramatically)
understated.

As could be your understanding of anything that deals with real flight.

--
Jim Pennino

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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Big John writes:

Although the pilot takes off and lands the airplane manually, the
navigation system is accurate enough to put the airplane on the
runway in zero-zero conditions after flying nonstop from Californiato
Iraqand return with four inflight refuelings.

I'm not so sure about that. The ANS was accurate to within half a
mile or so, as I recall.

How the **** would you know, idiot boi?


It wasn't good enough for a landing in zero
visibility. Of course, the published accuracy for the ANS could be
(dramatically) understated.



Ya think?


Bertie