Post by LOU on Jun 28th, 2011 at 7:10pm
BrianG,
Here is the placard that is under the glare shield.
At a landing weight of 200,000 # the stall speed is 110 KTS. Minimum approach is 1.3 X 110 = 143 KTS - This is bug speed, add 10 KTS and you have your speed with full flaps. I use 50 degrees of flap as it gives a slightly slower speed and a better (lower) deck angle.
I really don't remember the numbers, it was many moons since I set foot in the 707 RW. :-[ We had a chart that would give us more information than the placard shown below. I just remember the 707 as being easy to fly but slow in roll since the controls were not boosted. If you did need to give it some horsing around the spoilers would kick in and increase the roll rate, but nothing like the 727 or any of the later planes.
Lou
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Here is the placard that is under the glare shield.
At a landing weight of 200,000 # the stall speed is 110 KTS. Minimum approach is 1.3 X 110 = 143 KTS - This is bug speed, add 10 KTS and you have your speed with full flaps. I use 50 degrees of flap as it gives a slightly slower speed and a better (lower) deck angle.
I really don't remember the numbers, it was many moons since I set foot in the 707 RW. :-[ We had a chart that would give us more information than the placard shown below. I just remember the 707 as being easy to fly but slow in roll since the controls were not boosted. If you did need to give it some horsing around the spoilers would kick in and increase the roll rate, but nothing like the 727 or any of the later planes.
Lou
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