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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Interesting Lockheed L-10-11 Facts

The L1011 has no elevator. It has a flying stabilizer.

PSA airlines configured the L1011 to have a lounge area for passengers below the main pax cabin.

The Rolls Royce RB211 engine was designed for the L1011 and is the only engine offered through it's production life.

The L1011 was the first cockpit designed will all curved windscreen glass.

The LD1011 is the only plane designed with Direct Lift Control (DLC) which used the spoilers and locked out the stabilizer to control altitude on the approach. Pushing or pulling the yoke on approach did not effect a change in pitch it affected the rate of descent only.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Avsoft Training Material

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

PMDG Releases It's Jetstream 41 For Sale

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Interesting DC8 Facts

The DC8 had castering main landing gear bogeys that would unlock in tight radius turns allowing the rear 2 wheels on each bogey to caster.

The DC8 had no leading edge slats or flaps. It had 2 leading edge slots on each wing inboard of each engine pylon with retractable and extendable doors to open or close the slot.

The DC8's elevator has no hydraulic power. You used muscle power and aerodynamic control tabs to move the elevator.

The DC8's cabin was pressurized by 4 turbocompressors located behind the air inelts in the nose.

The DC8 was the first civilian airliner to break the sound barrier.

The DC8 had no windshield wipers. It used bleed air to blow the rain off the windscreen.

The DC8 has no flight spoilers. To slow down it used reverse thrust on engines # 2 & 3. With the gear down # 1 & 4 could be revesed as well.

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