On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 00:01:42 +0100, Lee wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There is a lot left unsaid though - from the same article: > 'Former Cromwellian Leonard Snaith flew the prototype Swift on > many occasions and during one flight flick-rolled it. The Swift > continued to roll three times, Snaith describing the manoeuvre > as a horizontal spin. He did not recall how the Swift recovered > or at what altitude. Comper, who had been watching Snaith's > display, was later found at the bar downing double brandies' ..ahah, explains the market penetration. > Apparently, when rigged and trimmed correctly for level flight, > hands-off you would have been likely to find it yawing to the > right and rolling to the left, but this sort of behaviour > appears to have been pretty normal for aircraft of the time. ..eerie. This was meant as a GA plane. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
