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   user@nouse.org wrote in news:fmteuh$2kr$1@aioe.org:   
      
   > Bertie the Bunyip wrote:   
   >> "john bates"  wrote in   
   >> news:47921f43$1_3@mk-nntp- 2.news.uk.tiscali.com:   
   >>   
   >>> Please could an expert here tell me. If with a total loss   
   >>> of electric power would all control of a/c be the result?   
   >>>   
   >>> If (as a few ground observers have stated) the high nose   
   >>> attitude and apparent stall from 100/200 foot is true and   
   >>> the pilot had had control would he not have pushed the   
   >>> stick forward to increase the glide distance/ Or choose to   
   >>> pancake onto the grass and avoid all the resultant sparks?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> He probably had the flight controls operating. He would have had no   
   >> surplus speed at that point anyway Pointing the nose down would not   
   >> increase the glide, they would not have made the airport perimiter   
   >> had he done that. They made it. They were lucky. End of story.   
   >   
   > Yessssir.  Got 9 of those T-shirts, and I don't think luck   
   > was factor except before the rundown, everything beyond was   
   > hands, feet and no buttonds left on the seat cushions (or   
   > no cushions even): an EXCELLENT JOB under the circumstances,   
   > I'd fly to hell with them limeys!   
   >   
      
   They did an excellent job, but it had nothing to do with them being limeys   
   or BA! Beleive me, their training is nothing to write home about.   
      
   It's anal, I'll give em that. Seems to be what they shoot for anyway.   
      
      
      
   Bertie   
      
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