In article ,
Mary Shafer writes:
On Sun, 30 May 2004 22:41:29 -0400, (Peter
Stickney) wrote:

I doesn't work that way. The only jet I know of where teh wing is a
single structure is the Folland Gnat (Little teeny fighter, with a
wing span smaller than most other fighter's stabilator spans) You
see, the problem comes when you've got to haul 'em around, or
disassemble them for maintenance, or other such stuff (such as
building them in the first place).

I know some more. The Harrier and the F-8 Crusader. Both neither
huge or little teeny fighters. They have to remove the wing from the
Harrier to change out the engine (which is why the Harrier I saw at
Boscombe Down in the mid-70's was in two pieces, the wing and the
rest).

Durn. Ya got me! In my haste, I forgot 'em.


Since they're so much like F-8s, the A-7 Corsair may have had a
unitary wing. I don't really know much about A-7s, though, so I can't
really say.

To tell you thr truth, I don't know, either. It might, at that. (The
center section, at least, the tips are removable, of course.)

Someone asked about a refueling receptacle back by the tail on the
F-8. First, receptacles are on the forebody, not at the back end.
Secondly, the F-8, being a Navy airplane, has a probe, not a
receptacle. It's on the left side, just below the cockpit, I think.

According to my F-8 Servicing Diagrams, there's an Engine Oil Tank
filler in teh upper aft fuselage, at the forward edge of the fin.
Perhaps the placard's associated with that?

The Single Point Refuelling connector was, IIRC, in the fuselage below
th wing, on teh right side.

We put a flight control computer in that space, after removing the
probe, on our F-8, so I'm going by memory of the dummy probe we
strapped onto the airplane for my PIO suppression filter testing.

To drag the thread a bit closer to charter, wasn't the computer used
on thw DFBW Crusader an Apollo CSM's Guidance Computer? I've seen
soem photos of the computer installation, and there's a suspicious-
looking DSKY in the computer bay on that airplane.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster