exchemist
Valued Senior Member
Exactly. So you need to check what it comes up with, as it is unreliable. That adds back at least some of the effort it purportedly saves. Yet many people will simply take what it says without checking, as it is nicely presented and includes a lot of details that might be laborious to check.Heh. Good point. Some of it is just wrong.
"The Canberra used a very thin, high-aspect-ratio wing optimised for high-altitude efficiency.
- This wing simply could not accommodate large landing gear units inside it.
- As a result, the main gear had to retract into the engine nacelles, which were also relatively slim."
(You can see in this diagram that the gear retracts into the proximal (shoulder) wing:
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Also, Wiki disagrees with the aspect ratio:
"...the line of the large, low-aspect-ratio wings was broken only by the tubular engine nacelles..."
However, there are some takeaways:
- Canberra is a bomber. It will not have external munitions, thus no need for ground clearance
- Canberra is designed to be light. Smaller gear is lighter.
- CF-100 is an all-weather fighter and workhorse, thus more robust gear.

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