I seen a bunch outside yesterday when I drove by Kaman

As always correct, detailed information

This is what he explain to me. They would over fly the target get ground troop location call in to GC officer. then they would back off the Man pressure, enter into a shallow dive(mined you they are comming from 2000AGL) at 1500 they would dump the gear allowing them to maintain a consent airspeed without induced wing fluttering. This was done with about 350 to 375 indicated Air.

At the bottom of the dive when they reach 600-550 AGL they would let go of the munnitions and start a hard pull up and turing away from the target, if they did’nt have the gear hanging the Corsair has a nasty habit of mid-wing stall

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I think you are trying to say they had to use the gear to maintain a airspeed between 350 & 375. However if they exceded that airspeed in a hard pull up it would result in a acellerated stall that would progress from the wing root to the tip.

Ah, spoken with all the wisdom of someone with three posts to their name.

This Forum, the Historic one that is, is actually very robust.

We are a bunch of friends, but that doesn’t preclude either

1) Occasional fallings-out

2) A bit of friendly banter between us.

Wrenchbender has been controversial in the past, now he just does it out of duty, it is expected of him. He no more believes that the US saved us in WW2, than I think our presence in Vietnam would have made the slightest difference.

If you want to act as a one man UN peace-keeper can I suggest you pop over to the Modern Military Forum? They need you badly there.

Good luck

Moggy

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Thanks for realizing it for what it is Moggy. I have been home alone since United gave me and my mates the Boot and the wife is a executive in the aerospace industry so I don’t see her much except in the evening. The only thing I feel really hot about is letting good airframes rot into junk. I like rebuilding airplanes and feel really strongly about this. Someday I would like to trade with someone in England. They come over here and we go to all the noteable Aviation spots and them I go there and they do the same.

Correct Mike J. As the Flight manual states a wing can stall at any airspeed at any attitude! Like a accelerated stall.

WB: You sure you wouldn’t like to reconsider? I’m assuming by ‘angle of dangle’ you mean ‘angle of attack’

The only way you can reduce the stalling speed is by adding lift / reducing weight.

How exactly does adding drag by lowering the gear achieve this. It would seem to me that all the added drag would do is make you reach the (unchanged) stalling speed more quickly.

Am I being particularly dense here?

Remember Lift / Weight / Thrust / Drag?

CM: If by ‘everything’ you start to include flaps, then your argument starts to make sense as these would increase the available lift and enable you to fly more slowly. But the u/c adds no lift, so would be superfluous in this case.

Anyway divebrakes are specifically used to stop an aircraft speeding up in a dive. Here the gear would perform that function, but this has nothing at all to do with stall speed and stalling.

Moggy
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No I’ll stick with my answer. Better get your aviation handbook and read it again. Don’t you have Flight reviews in England? Reread the chapter on flaps and dive brakes.

I can’t say that there were any English television shows let alone movies that I can remember that were very good. Furthermore, when stationed in Europe I considered it rather boring and mind numbing. I guess you had Benny Hill! You should be thankfull to Hollywood for making movies for the pompus to berate and the USA for saving Englands A$#.

Why would they when we won the war for the British.