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No. As I pointed out earlier, the airfoil choice was not optimal.
- Ivan.
Maybe install Fowler flaps, so the wing remain without inclination?.
Wasn't the B-26 responsible for the term "one a day at Tampa Bay"? A reference to what a pig it was to fly and how many trainees (even experienced pilots) it killed, especially on take off and landing?
I mean "required an unprecedented landing speed of 120 to 135 mph" .. what a disaster, who came up with that nonsense?
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I am not sure whether some aircraft manufacturers in America were just in it for the money and didn't really care very much about the standard of their products or whether they were simply just manufacturing what was agreed between them and their government, I think there was some of both. The B25 was one of those planes where the designers had got everything pretty much right at their first attempt which you could argue left little room to later improve the B25.
No. As I pointed out earlier, the airfoil choice was not optimal.
- Ivan.
I'm not sure, even in retrospect what the optimal airfoil is for a P-38. One could start with an assumption of thinner airfoil to delay onset drag rise but Lockheed wanted the higher CL for climb performance and didn't know about transonic issues when the preliminary design was in progress.
I can tell you this about the T-38 ... whatever you do, don't let it get slow in the pattern. If you do, it can develop high sink rates taht are impossible to stop before intersecting terra firma. I've flown the simulator and if you get slow in the turn to final, you will not make the runway on that approach. You mey make a go-around or may become a lawn dart.
Moral of the story is simple, fly it by the book and you'll do fine.
pattle said:the early Marauders operated by the RAF were also the only ones to be used as torpedo bombers.
No. As I pointed out earlier, the airfoil choice was not optimal.
- Ivan.