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To: HiTech RedNeck

OTOH, it's not apt to suck up junk from rough airfields.


9 posted on 01/25/2006 10:41:42 PM PST by null and void ("Never place a period where God has placed a coma" --Gracie Allen)
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To: null and void

Also, the exhaust over the wing gives additional lift; when you drop the flaps on that sucker (which are probably HUGE) it also gives downward thrust. That airplane probably has STOL performance.


48 posted on 01/26/2006 5:59:50 AM PST by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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To: null and void

Precisely.


61 posted on 01/26/2006 6:21:59 AM PST by ericthecurdog (The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.)
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