What...only 3,000 hours in the B? SLACKER!!!
I have over 5,000+ in the B and B+...or "Turbo Shaker" as we lovingly called it...LOL.
It looked to me like once the stabs went Code Blue (one blew this way...one blew that way) the jet pretty much drew/flew a straight line into destiny. I understand your theory but still think it's more airframe design dependent whether the nose pitches up or down with flap deployment. No matter what it would have done...I'm pretty confident that it was game over...nothing was going to save that Hawk. Quite a shame because it was quite a good looking jet.
And so it goes...
Beave [&:]
ORIGINAL: cyphur01
Boli
Having 3000+ hours in the Saab 340B I know where you are coming from. Even though the stabilator might be symmetrical, the angle of attack that it has will cause a moment in one direction or the other to balance out the center of lift compared to cg. Because when the stab separated and the aircraft pitched down, this lead me to believe that the center of lift was aft of the cg. This tells me that normal flaps would move it further back causing a more downward movement. Doesn't matter really bc as soon as the stab departed the plane was toast
Maybe Al Haynes could've landed it but not someone normal.
