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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
Did pilots go vertical in the Typhoon - probably, although almost certainly less often than is claimed. Did this make them more accurate? Very doubtful indeed. If accurate dive-bombing was possible without airbrakes, then why did specialist aircraft have to have them?
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Because it was hairy and dangerous to dive a fighter without air brakes as the wings would come off over a certain speed.
The point is this. Accuracy required vertical delivery. The RAF refused to operate aircraft designed for vertical delivery. Typhoon pilots wanting accuracy delivered from the vertical nevertheless. Therefore the RAF are condemned of supplying the wrong equipment. QED.
5th August 2007, 17:23
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