Flyteknisk spørsmål....

[ENGM RAMP]

God morgen alle fra Tårntoppen

Si meg, sitter og ser på noen bilder og har alltid lurt på den men aldri husket å spørre noen...

Er det noen som vet historien bak Trident'en og dets skjevt plasserte nesehjul?

[brendas]

Tror det har med at det skulle spare plass i cargohold (nesehjule felles inn sideveis.)

[FK27]

Trident var spesiell på mange måter. Les her fra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Siddeley_Trident:

The Trident has a very distinctive offset front landing gear. The reason it was designed this way was to accommodate the Smiths Automatic Blind Landing System computers.

The Trident was the first commercial aircraft to be fitted with a Flight Data Recorder.

The Trident performed the first automatic blind landing in 1966, pioneering the ability to land in fog, something that had previously caused many problems at London Heathrow and resulted in thousands of cancellations and delays.

With the ability of engaging thrust reversers in flight, the Trident could safely decend at 10,000 feet per minute, though this capability was rarely used.

The Trident was one of the fastest subsonic commercial airliners, regularly cruising at over 600mph.

In some configurations, BEA (later British Airways) Trident aircraft had a number of rearward facing passenger seats, an uncommon seating arrangement for civil aircraft

[Someone]

Originally posted by FK27

With the ability of engaging thrust reversers in flight, the Trident could safely decend at 10,000 feet per minute, though this capability was rarely used.

Det må være ganske heftig!

[FK27]

Snakk om å henge i stroppen dere.

Ellers klarte en viss instruktør å overbevise meg om at nesehjulet gikk sideveis inn for å unngå trimforandring i avgangsfasen.

Ja, ja. Ferske flyelever kan en innbille det utroligste...