Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Jet Aircraft

[cdatte (cdatte]

isn't a ferrari, full throttle an airplane with fixed gear or a guided missle ?

At 03:42 PM 2/13/2008, Rich wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LarryT" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
> To: "Rich" <RichF355 [at] comcast.net>
> Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:32 PM
> Subject: [Ferrari] Jet Aircraft
>
>
> > IIRC there's a lot of you out there interested in airplanes -
> >
> > Watched a special about the ME262 - the German jet fighter that became
> > operation late in WW2.  Seems the engineering was pretty creative on
> them -
> > they had leading edge flaps which extended by *gravity* when speed dropped
> > below 150knts and retracted at 200knts IIRC.  Sometimes simple works the
> > best --  They showed a technician adjusting the ball bearings the flaps
> > rolled on so they didn;t stick - which had a tendency to cause the flaps
> to
> > stick - very bad when only one sticks - which was usually the case -
> ======================
>
> Well that depends. Sometimes a spinning aircraft can be fun  & entertaining
> ;-)
>
> Rich
>
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