C-47 Glider Version

[Archaeopteryx]

Archaeopteryx  aka koo-koo bird.

Hi Vaughn.

My guess is that in a practical sense, fine-tune fiddling with
glidepath was almost a secondary consideration. Cut the rope, make a
turn or two to line up, once you're sure of the field dump the flaps
to slow down a little and hope for the best while trying to  dodge
everybody else that was doing the same thing.

   I gently disagree.  As a power plane pilot you don't think of these
things as much because you typically add drag with flaps and then use thrust
& drag from your engine to fine tune your glidepath.  In the glider, you
need something to replace the control the missing engine would have given
you.  Troop gliders would have needed some sort of glide path control so
that their relitively low-time pilots could have a prayer of getting them
safely into the ever changing environment of what may have been a limited
size field already littered with other gliders.
   Question:  Does anybody have a clue how many fully-loaded realistic
combat-style landings a typical combat glider would have under his belt?  My
guess is "not very many".

Why not just use regular fighter or bomber pilots.
Getting practiced on dead-stick is easy enough,
with weight increments. A pilot like you Vaughn
would be yawning after 10 practices, chumping to
go, that's the way I'd be.
Once doing the landing, hitch-hike home, and do it
again or resume usual duties.
At the time of Market-Garden, there were enough
pilots -sitting on their hands- to fill the need.

If you walked away from it, it was a good one. (shudder)

Well, what were the casualties from glider landings?
Ken

Koo-Koo Birdy, You need to understand a pilot is a pilot
first, flying is first. Speaking for myself and the majority
of REAL pilots, if my CO asked for glider pilots, and I
wasn't busy for a few days, I'd get in there and give the
army a safe lift to where-ever.
You on the other hand would go to the womens john
and squat :-).
BTW Koo-Koo, what's your real name?
Why do hide behind a phoney bird Archaeopteryx ,
are you a COWARD or sumfink, you write like one.
Ken
Koo-Koo Birdy, You need to understand a pilot is a pilot
first, flying is first. Speaking for myself and the majority
of REAL pilots, if my CO asked for glider pilots, and I
wasn't busy for a few days, I'd get in there and give the
army a safe lift to where-ever.

Quoted as the monument to stupidity it is.

BTW Koo-Koo, what's your real name?
Why do hide behind a phoney bird Archaeopteryx ,
are you a COWARD or sumfink, you write like one.
Ken

Y'know Ken, while privacy is not a right, it certainly has desirable
aspects - especially with net.cranks such as yourself on the loose.

What's more, with the splendid ruins of a reputation the inimitable
Ken S. Tucker has left strewn about the net, it's pretty obvious you
never thought of that:


10-Oct-2007 Ken Tucker: "I am a general relativity expert, but how
does one calculate an integral?"

http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html

[Archaeopteryx]

Archaeopteryx  aka koo-koo bird.

Hi Vaughn.

My guess is that in a practical sense, fine-tune fiddling with
glidepath was almost a secondary consideration. Cut the rope, make a
turn or two to line up, once you're sure of the field dump the flaps
to slow down a little and hope for the best while trying to  dodge
everybody else that was doing the same thing.

   I gently disagree.  As a power plane pilot you don't think of these
things as much because you typically add drag with flaps and then use thrust
& drag from your engine to fine tune your glidepath.  In the glider, you
need something to replace the control the missing engine would have given
you.  Troop gliders would have needed some sort of glide path control so
that their relitively low-time pilots could have a prayer of getting them
safely into the ever changing environment of what may have been a limited
size field already littered with other gliders.
   Question:  Does anybody have a clue how many fully-loaded realistic
combat-style landings a typical combat glider would have under his belt?  My
guess is "not very many".

Why not just use regular fighter or bomber pilots.
Getting practiced on dead-stick is easy enough,
with weight increments. A pilot like you Vaughn
would be yawning after 10 practices, chumping to
go, that's the way I'd be.
Once doing the landing, hitch-hike home, and do it
again or resume usual duties.
At the time of Market-Garden, there were enough
pilots -sitting on their hands- to fill the need.

If you walked away from it, it was a good one. (shudder)

Well, what were the casualties from glider landings?
Ken

Koo-Koo Birdy, You need to understand a pilot is a pilot
first, flying is first. Speaking for myself and the majority
of REAL pilots, if my CO asked for glider pilots, and I
wasn't busy for a few days, I'd get in there and give the
army a safe lift to where-ever.
You on the other hand would go to the womens john
and squat :-).
BTW Koo-Koo, what's your real name?
Why do hide behind a phoney bird Archaeopteryx ,
are you a COWARD or sumfink, you write like one.
Ken

Quoted as proof that even an amoeba can post on Usenet.