Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
- TheGreenGoblin
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Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
Sounds like a tricky jet to manage.
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
Tip stall of the 45 degree swept wing with concomitant forward movement of the centre of pressure/lift resulting in the nose pitching up and the aircraft getting so high in the drag curve/behind the power curve, that it couldn't fly out of it even with reheat on. Only hope apparently was to go for full power and commence a turn, not too tight though, and attempt to recover from the stalled state before attempting to get the nose down, before the adverse yaw/roll couple tendency became too much to control. Apparently one man who man for whom the "Sabre dance" held no terrors was Bob Hoover who used to purposely get into this state and then fly out of it to order.
Bob Hoover, truly a genius...
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
Apparently one man for whom the "Sabre dance" held no terrors was Bob Hoover who used to purposely get into this state and then fly out of it to order.
Finger trouble..
Finger trouble..
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
It needed a bigger fin and rudder- and got them.
Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
Danish Super Sabres used to lob into Lossie a lot in the mid-seventies for whisky, sorry, navex training.
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
As you imply, Dutch Roll, and "snaking" at high speed, was corrected, for the most part, by those modifications.
Colonel Daniel B Cecil on the Super Sabre (and Dutch Roll)
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Re: Nostalgia of the worst kind - The Sabre dance...
Yeah Gobbers. It's a 'keel area' thing....