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To: Hulka

*****So, NO, you don’t get dead stick training because you CAN’T dead stick the jet. Same with other jets.*****

I met a former F-104 pilot who assured me that he personally knew a fellow pilot who dead sticked a starfighter.

I can only imagine the pilot dove at 60 degrees or so, building up max IAS, and then managed to flair out at the last second.

I was always told that they glide like a brick...


49 posted on 04/20/2013 11:45:23 AM PDT by Huebolt (A country that has tipped will fall. RIP USA)
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To: Huebolt

I would rate that as great hanger talk.

Windmilling engine provides some hydraulic pressure. . .that is all. And the hydraulic pressure bleeds off rather quickly when you activate control inputs.

And absent hydraulic pressure, the control are not movable -—the air-pressure aligns it with the relative wind and the stick and rudder attached to hydraulic actuators are doing nothing because there is no hydraulic pressure to move them around.


67 posted on 04/22/2013 3:41:18 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Huebolt

Never flew the 104, so don’t know if it had pulleys. . .


68 posted on 04/22/2013 3:42:27 PM PDT by Hulka
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