Re: May America lose the Iraq war
From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 03/22/03
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From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh) Date: 22 Mar 2003 22:13:16 GMT
Keith R. Williams <krw@attglobal.net> writes:
]In article <b5e1je$2jul$1@jeeves.eng.abbnm.com>, peter@abbnm.com
]says...
]> Iain McClatchie wrote:
]> > Bill> Yeah, right. Any pilots out there care to comment on why an aircraft
]> > Bill> couldn't sustain the same speed in a dive without breaking up that it
]> > Bill> could on the level?
]> >
]> > A quick google didn't find it, but I think there was an incident with a
]> > major airliner over the great lakes that went into a dive and actually went
]> > transonic briefly... enough to freeze the controls. IIRC, the pilot
]> > deployed the landing gear, which slowed the thing enough to pull out of the
]> > dive.
]>
]> I've been looking for that story too, the one I heard is that it
]> was a 707, and that recovery involved in excess of 6 Gs, and the
]> plane was totalled (flyable, but the airframe was taken way past
]> its stress limits).
The pilot deployed the air brakes, overriding the safeguard which was
supposed to prevent it by pulling the fuses. The air brake
deployed on one side only. The plane went into a roll first and then
into a dive.
And yes as I recall he did use the landing
gear as a brake and finally pulled it out at about 3000 ft (from 30000)
having managed to strip off almost all the control surfaces of the wings
in the process.
There was a TV movie made of the incident about 10 years ago as I
recall.
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