Alex Romosan wrote: > Erik Hofman writes: > >> Believe me, this is correct behavior, and this is why: > > i found a nice article about flying in an f16: > > http://www.avweb.com/news/skywrite/181916-1.html > > this is the part about the speed brakes: > > "Here's where the speed brakes come in handy, I'll open em up. And > you'll see what happens." > > I felt what happens! It seemed my face was being pulled from my > skull. I couldn't believe how effective those speed brakes were. An > F-16's speed brakes are located at the back of the fuselage either > side of the engine nacelle, and really look diminutive. However, > introducing even that much surface area to hang out in the 600-mph > breeze has a pronounced effect on one's forward motion. We slowed to > about 400 then he retracted the brakes and let the airspeed start > increasing again.
This says nothing about generating lift or not.. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
