Low altitude flying
Discussion
Very impressive stuff 
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The old Fleet Air Arm Bucaneers, before they were handed over to the RAF used to fly so low that they had a wake like a speed boat behind them and a dirty great plume of unburnt fuel in the form of black smoke which you could be spottedt before the aircraft could actually be seen
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Apart for the roll bits they would be flying pretty much on a cushion at that height, best bit is that Chuck Yeager ('The Right Stuff' chappy) proved that over the Nevada sands (same as the sea if you hit it mind) once you were on the cushion if you pushed the stick forward into a dive the aircraft would stay level. I've always wondered if nay sane person would try that 
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Harry
PS to be fair the RAF flew the same once they got them and continued pretty much in the same vein with the Tornado
. The old Fleet Air Arm Bucaneers, before they were handed over to the RAF used to fly so low that they had a wake like a speed boat behind them and a dirty great plume of unburnt fuel in the form of black smoke which you could be spottedt before the aircraft could actually be seen
. Apart for the roll bits they would be flying pretty much on a cushion at that height, best bit is that Chuck Yeager ('The Right Stuff' chappy) proved that over the Nevada sands (same as the sea if you hit it mind) once you were on the cushion if you pushed the stick forward into a dive the aircraft would stay level
. I've always wondered if nay sane person would try that . Harry
PS to be fair the RAF flew the same once they got them and continued pretty much in the same vein with the Tornado
, I wondered how long it would be before someone posted them here 
vipers said:
Just wondering, as these things fly pretty fast, would that be computer controled, or manual I wonder?
more than likely, manual with a LOT of help from a ground avoidance radar. always worried me when i was hiking in snowdonia when the hawks of 100 Sqn are flying underneath you.
there was a story flying round about a 208 Sqn buccaneer, that according to the radar trails, must have been dragging a wing in the sand to get as low as it did and still turn.
The 208 Bucc was at " Red Flag" circa 1980 , the crushed Corolla is on the Thumrait to Salalah road in Oman , this is another example of a low flying Jag , and the consequences thereof !!
and an undamaged one !
PS The Jag didn't have an oval exhaust , just a "Slightly" distorted ventral strake
>> Edited by NHyde on Tuesday 15th November 22:35
>> Edited by NHyde on Tuesday 15th November 22:41
and an undamaged one !
PS The Jag didn't have an oval exhaust , just a "Slightly" distorted ventral strake
>> Edited by NHyde on Tuesday 15th November 22:35
>> Edited by NHyde on Tuesday 15th November 22:41
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