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>> I watched its display at my base in 1992 and I found even the wingover
>>rather worrying!
>
>The roll rate seems a bit sluggish.
>
Rolling a large aircraft with the engines off-centre could have serious
consequences. For instance, a couple of Navy pilots rolled a C-130 in the
1950s, causing the external fuel tanks to break off. Lockheed put pressure
reducers in the aileron hydraulic lines so nobody could do that ever again.
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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