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Bill -
Bob Hoover had a very similar routine under an AF contract to visit all of the F-100 bases. They were losing F-100's at a very high rate because people were using ailerons at too low of an altitude and airspeed, and not enough rudder - most commonly on the base-to-final turn. He did a roll with ailerons locked and rudder only just after takeoff. - just to demo this. Of course, that was Bob Hoover. Later on, it became a very useful tactic in ACM training because it would really tighten a turn.
Cheers,
John
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:34:47 -0400, billhogarty <billhogarty@hughes.net> wrote:
Dan:
When I was stationed in northern Japan (in another life), they were
losing a lot of F-86D's for one reason or another. So they flew in
a factory rep (never knew exactly who).
He did a burner take-off and rolled it with the gear still down.
Flew a fairly tight pattern,and made a REAL short field landing
(with drag chute and max braking). Then he did a 180 on the
runway,dropped the chute, then took off downwind on just the
available runway he used for his short field landing.
WOW....Talk about impressive!!!!!! Amazing the performance
available when you stay inside the envelope).
Regards, Bill Hogarty 
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