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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (135860)4/6/2001 1:53:26 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1572531
 
RE:"Admittedly I haven't been following this discussion, but is it essentially impossible for a slow moving aircraft like our spy plane to collide with a jet fighter unless the fighter cooperates. What did it do, reach out and swat the fighter?"

Not true. A low winged aircraft such as a P3 have the blind spot under the wing. I sudden bank could initiate a collision if the fighter was right under the wing.
The fighter, being the faster more manueverable aircraft should have stayed clear. Then again, if the fighter was in "slow-flight" it's manuverability would have been greatly diminished. In a nose high attitude. Increasing it's underneath blindspot.

Jim
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