Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: msmith@mrc-crc.ac.uk (Mike Smith x3297) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: RE: Autorotation of Harriers Message-ID: <1990Dec11.015341.26439@cbnews.att.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 01:53:41 GMT References: <1990Dec6.021723.18639@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre, Harrow, UK Lines: 13 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mike Smith x3297 Do any of you Harrier experts know if the AV8B/GR5 has a system where the vectored thrust nozzles automatically rotate downwards as airspeed decreases? This would reduce pilot workload and could be termed 'autorotation' although its meaning is completely unrelated to helicopter autorotations. -- Mike Smith Computing Services Janet: m.smith@uk.ac.crc Clinical Research Centre, Usenet: m.smith@mrccrc.uucp Watford Rd, HARROW, Middx, HA1 3UJ or ...!mcsun!ukc!mrccrc!m.smith Tel 081-869 3297 Internet: m.smith%uk.ac.crc@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk