[56raf_firebirds] Re: Duxford Spitfire galore.
- From: 56RAF_phoenix <phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 56raf_firebirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 10:30:33 +0000
always liked the harrier :)
The great flaw in the design was that with certain wind strengths and
direction, the engine would ingest exhaust thereby massively reducing
thrust just as you were coming in to land in a hover.
I remember seeing immensely complex 3D flow calculations trying to
understand when it happened.
But the only real fix is what you see in the F35, exhaust nozzles at the
rear only.
56RAF_phoenix
On 30/10/2020 10:22, Colin Pack (Redacted sender bart_56 for DMARC) wrote:
I went to world superbikes at brands hatch one year, where they had a
tornado and harrier display. The harrier just hovered above us, it was
deafening, we could not hear what each other were saying. A few years
before that I went to a Royal Navy opening day at the Chatham naval
docks and standing on a deck of a frigate and a harrier was just
hovering between two frigates and again was deafening, always liked
the harrier :).
Colin
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On 30 Oct 2020, at 09:40, Rob <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The sound that remained with me was the Mercedes engines 109s with
that whistle it made. Another sound I remember is a formation of
harriers taking off vertically at Farnborough It made the Vulcan
sound quiet!
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