Curt wins the prize! Actually, I didn't question what I was seeing at first, even though the aliasing in the clouds and sky should have been a dead giveaway (that the original image was not analog). On further thought, this unicycle mode is clearly impossible; the wing is at a negative angle of attack so what's holding the aircraft up? Not the brakes (no brakes on nose wheel). Not the tail (nowhere near enough lift). Apparently, somebody screwed with the simulator coefficients to make this video (or negative AOA wasn't modelled correctly).
Back in the late 70s a General Dynamics pilot explained a "trick" to a USAF pilot who was about to do an air show. The trick was to hold a LITTLE forward stick force during takeoff roll and release it just as you pass "unstick" speed. Then the jet (F-16) really jumps off the runway (it's very dramatic). Back then the F-16 had a non-moving force-sensing side-stick so it was very hard to know how much force is "just a little" and the USAF pilot used too much and broke the nose gear. Still, the main gear never left the runway until takeoff (as far as I could see) even though the F-16 has a large, all-moving horizontal tail that can generate a great deal of lift. After burning off (and maybe dumping) fuel, the pilot executed an emergency lakebed landing; the nose gear collapsed completely and the aircraft came to rest on the front radome. The F-16 canopy is one piece (no separate windscreen) and the radome broke off and slid up over the front lip of the canopy, thus trapping the pilot in the cockpit. The mad dash of emergency vehicles looked pretty hazardous to me. One of the first guys arriving on the scene (another pilot and a big guy at that) saw what was happening and pulled the radome lose by pulling sideways on the pitot tube on the nose of the radome. He received serious burns to his hands because the pitot heat still on, but he did manage to free the trapped pilot, which was good because liquid (fuel or possibly hydrazine) was already leaking from the aircraft. From then on, it was takeoff trim only (no forward stick force) at that base. > From: Curt Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 8:16 PM > > I can't tell if you guys can tell its a simulator. Somebody recorded the video > from a monitor... > > -Curt > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
