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Re: Aircraft Design Feature Nicknames

Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:54 pm

Think it was the Bristol Britannia which had the OMC or "Oh My Christ!" button; the Proteus engines could be prone to intake icing and one might occasionally flame out in the right cruise conditions, requiring a rapid relight action by the crew accompanied by a high pitched "OMC!" plus sundry bangs and sheets of flame from the offending turbine.

Re: Aircraft Design Feature Nicknames

Fri Aug 25, 2023 12:59 pm

The recent MiG-23 accident made me realize that "swing wing" was not the inevitable term for variable incidence wings, and deserves to be on this nickname list.

August

Re: Aircraft Design Feature Nicknames

Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:48 pm

The Mig-23 is variable sweep, not variable incidence.

Re: Aircraft Design Feature Nicknames

Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:05 pm

Quite right! I'm sure that was confusing and that you had no idea what I meant.

August
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