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High AOA?

Gotta imagine they have the sooped up gear on that bad boy, you see him slam that down?
 
Slammer2 said:
can the pilot even see in front of him angled up like that?
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No, I don't think so. I believe that was one of the breakthroughs of the testing program, I think there was a cable show on it once.
 
Cool and interesting, but probably not terribly useful in everyday ops. "Let's see, Vern, how can we come up with a landing configuration that maximizes both drag AND required thrust?" :D

Brett
 
Brett327 said:
Cool and interesting, but probably not terribly useful in everyday ops. "Let's see, Vern, how can we come up with a landing configuration that maximizes both drag AND required thrust?" :D

Brett
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I think the Navy helped revive the program to see if some application could be used in everyday CV ops. Not to say that F/A-18's would be landing on the boat like that but they wanted to see if that type of theing was feasible and if even a little bit could be applied to the boat.
 
ESTOL (Extremely short take off and landing) was the goal of the program (so I've read) Imagine large aircraft being able to land and take off within a carrier length, I have no idea what the impact on aviation, civil and military, would be but I'd imagine it would be large...
 
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