Re: Debris found in Southern CA Desert - Anyone know what it might be?

From: Mary Shafer (miliff_at_qnet.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 22:34:12 -0700

On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:41:29 -0400, peter@adelphia.net (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

> I doesn't work that way. The only jet I know of where teh wing is a
> single structure is the Folland Gnat (Little teeny fighter, with a
> wing span smaller than most other fighter's stabilator spans) You
> see, the problem comes when you've got to haul 'em around, or
> disassemble them for maintenance, or other such stuff (such as
> building them in the first place).

I know some more. The Harrier and the F-8 Crusader. Both neither
huge or little teeny fighters. They have to remove the wing from the
Harrier to change out the engine (which is why the Harrier I saw at
Boscombe Down in the mid-70's was in two pieces, the wing and the
rest).

Since they're so much like F-8s, the A-7 Corsair may have had a
unitary wing. I don't really know much about A-7s, though, so I can't
really say.

Someone asked about a refueling receptacle back by the tail on the
F-8. First, receptacles are on the forebody, not at the back end.
Secondly, the F-8, being a Navy airplane, has a probe, not a
receptacle. It's on the left side, just below the cockpit, I think.

We put a flight control computer in that space, after removing the
probe, on our F-8, so I'm going by memory of the dummy probe we
strapped onto the airplane for my PIO suppression filter testing.

Mary 

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Mary Shafer   Retired aerospace research engineer
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