Should be available tomorrow, just some last minute tweaks to do.
For those interested in triviaâŠI could not fly the T-33 in the front seat because of my upper thigh length. If I had ejected, the canopy bow would have cleaned off my kneecaps! People were generally smaller when this thing was designed.
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I had a few hundred hours in the T-Bird back in the dayâŠand have a few stories if anyone is interestedâŠin many ways a great airplane!
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Please share!
Ok, love to share some trivia. Cdn version might be different on other versionsâŠyou could jettison the tip tanks.The only time you would do this if one of them failed to feed, resulting in a huge imbalance. Saw this done once on the infield of our airportâŠcool! My regret here is that I never got a trip in the one with no tanks. It took a while for them to refit it!
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What would the difference in the no tips plane have been for you?
As I said, I never got to fly it without the tips but reportedly without the drag and weight of the tips, if nothing else the roll rate was way better.
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If you were patient and careful with the EGTâŠyou could get this beast up to 40,000â!
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The problem was, once you got there it was like balancing a baseball bat on your noseâŠthe slightest input and you had issues. You needed smooth hands on the controls. The benefit was amazing fuel milieage1
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What was the cabin altitude when the airplane was at 40,000â?
I donât know exactly what the cabin pressure wasâŠbut the system was not that good by todayâs standards. The oxygen system was more or less automaticâŠat sea level it fed you ambient air, as you ascended it fed more oxygen into the mixtureâŠat 40K (maybe 25k) cabin pressure, the system started started âpressure breathingâ where is was feeding you oxygen under pressure.
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First three RCAF liveries now available on flight sim.to
https://flightsim.to/file/82381/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-no-3-advanced-flying-school-rcaf
https://flightsim.to/file/82370/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-central-flying-school-rcaf
https://flightsim.to/file/82368/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-428-squadron-rcaf
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How do the âdive flapsâ work? How do you actuate them?
IIRC this is triggered by the spoiler controls; the dive flap extends below the fuselage, behind the nose gear.
Iâll give that a try, thank you!
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New repaint of VT 40 (Jet training squadron), Royal Canadian Navy available for T-33.
Available at Flightsim.to here:
https://flightsim.to/file/82696/canadair-t-33-silver-star-mk-3-vt-40-royal-canadian-navy
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The âdive flapsâ better know as âspeed brakesâ are meant to slow you downâŠand they are very effective. In the real airplane they are actuated by the red switch on the top of the throttle. Havenât tried them in the sim model yet.
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