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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Airplanes of the Era, the F 86 Sabrjet

You'd have to classify planes like different families. Big aircraft that were handly qualities, wys, i call it howty hi flu. When you had the stick in your hand, they tended to be hav heavier on the controls. Fighters were a crisper, had hi. Wanted to have high manoeuvre ability and tight turns of high roll rates. It was before the era of all the computer and sulphur agaritms that are in most modern day fighters. But virtually the bare airframe aircraft probably is unfliable. Whereis probably computers weren't there, you couldn't even flyi ud be uncontrollable.

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