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1964
1964 - 0616.PDF
FUCHT Internatior S March I Surprisingly simple in appearance, this is the defence systems operator's cockpit—the rearmost of the three individual crew compartments. All are cleanly styled, with light grey dashboard facings as in expensive business aircraft. Top panel duplicates flying instruments, centre panel controls rearward-firing Vulcan gun, side-by-side bottom panels are labelled "Radar Warning Receiver" and "Chaff Dispenser" This unusual rear aspect of the Hustler shows the unconventional narrow- track main undercarriage legs; the voluminous cross-section of the underbelly pod and the distinctive undersides of the inboard engine pods, shaped like droplets forming. Immediately above the tailcone a bullet fairing encloses a rearward-facing scanner, seeking targets for the rearward-firing Vulcan gun Right, close-up of the menacing sting in the tail—actually a flexible tail, constructed like that of a wasp, to permit aiming of the 6,000-rounds-a- m/note Vulcan gun far right, "Little Rascal's" port-side nose displays random USAF graffiti, with the badge of 43rd Bomber Wing. The painted starry band shows signs of fore-edge peeling, possibly caused by Mach 2 friction. Right of centre is what appears to be a stall-warning indicator vane CHIEF8 SCT Three little men in line are we: this genera/ view shows clearly the three cockpits in tandem and the very close juxtaposition of the pod's nose and the nosewheei leg—about which Roger Bacon has something to say on page 362. The retraction movement is, to say the least, complex. Two KC-I3S tankers nose into the picture. Dimly seen on the horizon is a tactical bomber from an earlier age and the UK-based 7th Air Division's standard war-horse, the b-47
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