On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 02:39 +0100, gerard robin wrote: > Only the case of an emergency landing on water with gear down could be > usefully modeled, ( depending on the speed, the resistance could very high > which can make the nose over)
There is a NACA paper on this for, NACA-RM-L9K02a. They tried dropping large scale model DC-4 and DC-6s into a pool and analyzed the results. I recall they decided gear up, flaps down was the best approach. http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=99950&id=3&qs=No%3D100%26Ne%3D25%26N%3D289 Ron ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
