I remember very well an airshow I attended years ago. A National Guard C130 flew in and parked, and allowed people to walk through the aircraft. At the end of the day, as all the planes were leaving, the C130 fired up on the taxiway facing the crowd. Rather than making a really tight turn and coming towards the spectator area, the pilot went "beta" and backed up to the runway. I'll never forget the smile on his face right before he reversed pitch, since he knew he was going to blow a lot of hats off of people's heads. :-) Wow, have we gone off topic or what! Bob Richards, NCT.
Brian O'Connell <[email protected]> wrote: Many prop-job aircraft have reversible pitch ('beta' thrust) props can back up; e.g. C130 Cessna Caravans, and many of the craft that use the venerable PT6 engine. I am not certain if 'reverse' thrust on jets can be used to back up. Probably need to explain some aviation terms here. 'Beta' as a term for the angle of the blades, was derived as a complement to 'alpha' which is the term for angle of attack. And I am sure the members of this group have already guessed that there are some serious flight safety implications; and that this is not always a good thing, see www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR94-06.pdf luck, Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Pettit, > Ghery > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 11:19 AM > To: John Woodgate; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Noise canceling headsets > > Don't want to make a wrong turn and wind up nose to nose with another > plane. Reverse gear isn't an option on anything I fly, and it really - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
