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Topic: Heavy P-39 development...
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Razer
Pilot
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posted 10-02- 04:50 PM
   
I found some training videos on how to fly the 39 and also gives me great info on fuel,take off, landings, how basic flight. A lot will be done on the P-39 in the next version and really should be a lot better plane with FM work. The best line in the video so far is, "Your on the ground now, raise your flaps, remember, your flaps, not your gear." Words to live by i guess.  ------------------
Tony "Razer" Martin
"Making SDOE a dangerous Place, One plane at a time!"
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Snickers
Pilot
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posted 10-02- 05:18 PM
Was this at Zeno's? I was talking to a P38 pilot. When they wanted to show off, they would fire up the engines and start to taxi. Then they would hit the gear up button. The weight of the plane would keep the gear from coming up. When they took off, the gear would raise immediately on takeoff. ------------------
Snickers
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Mighty
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posted 10-03- 02:09 PM
An F-16 pilot did that on a touch and go at an air show, once. Unfortunately, the F-16 landing gear rotates inward, and the gyroscopic forces from the fast-spinning tire damaged the gear as tire it finished retracting. Apparently, it jammed the gear and the pilot had to do a belly landing.IP: Logged |
Pete Hawk
Pilot
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posted 10-03- 02:34 PM
F-15's also do that. I've seen them do it many times up in Alaska, Okinawa, and various other places. Way cool IP: Logged | |
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