[jhb] Re: Boeing C17
- From: "Frank Fisher" <ffisher991@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:39:01 +0100
Boeing C17Great shot, much better when they are flying slow, I see that it has
full flaps and gear down.
I have a vague memory of seeing a Concorde 'walking' tail down along the runway
at Duxford, could be wrong.
BTW, at this current time, a thunderstorm is overhead (1835Z).
Do not know how long I will be online, my BB speed has dropped from 1.9Mb to
0.25Mb (upload still 0.38Mb). BT is going to get an earful shortly.
Frank
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From: Fossil
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Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 5:43 PM
Subject: [jhb] Boeing C17
I've seen a few of the RAF C17's floating around the UK on my SBS display but
never expected to see one up close. That was my luck yesterday when ZZ175 came
over to Ronaldsway and then flew circuits for an hour!
The weather was a bit dull so the pictures I took from my window were not of
the best. Here's a typical one:
http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/WebAircraft/ZZ175.jpg
Note the huge fin and rudder area. You don't need that size of vertical area
unless the aircraft has been designed to fly very slowly. Slow speed provides
far less rudder effectiveness so the only way to control the aircraft at slow
speed and with an engine out is to have a bigger rudder area. In fact one
approach he made was at a very high nose up attitude and I would guess he was
flying not much faster than a small twin. For such a large aircraft it looked
incredibly slow.
bones
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