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To: RetiredTexasVet

I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick. Two examples: the miracle on the Hudson and the Gimli glider.


23 posted on 12/18/2014 6:23:03 PM PST by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737; RetiredTexasVet
I disagree with your assessment that large commercial aircraft have the aerodynamics of a brick.

It's Air Force fighter jets - especially the old F-4 Phantom - that have the aerodynamics of a brick.

31 posted on 12/19/2014 4:30:31 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

Hudson pilot was lucky he was over water and never got any altitude before he “crash landed” his brick.


36 posted on 12/19/2014 6:53:21 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Benghazi Clinton killed 4 & injured a dozen as SOS, imagine what she could do as CinC.)
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