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Can Harriers ground-taxi backwards?



 
 
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Old May 21st 05, 01:30 PM
Guy Alcala
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Default Can Harriers ground-taxi backwards?

Hopefully Frijoles or some other current or former Harrier
type can answer this (whatever happened to Cecil Turner?).
Using braking stop it would seem at least theoretically
possible, but I don't know if there were other problems that
prevented it (hot gas re-ingestion/FOD, light on the wheels,
etc). Assuming it is doable and NATOPS allows it, is/was it
done rarely/infrequently/routinely on an LPH/LHA/LHD? I was
just wondering if it were possible to taxi cross-deck and
get lined-up, then backup to maximise T/O run, thus allowing
more a/c to be launched in a short period of time than if it
were necessary to use deck tractors for positioning. Or is
the deck wide enough and the maximum angle of the Harrier's
nosewheel steering gear great enough that it can taxi aft
and then essentially make a U-turn at the aft end of the
deck, wasting little or no T/O run? TIA,

Guy



 




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