Author Topic: History Channel says...... (Read 2793 times)

38ruk · « **on:** February 24, 2005, 05:07:49 PM »

during a program on the F-14 , they state " The f-14 tomcat is the fastest fighter plane in the world. I thought that the F-15 was the fastest fighter in the USAF stable ? Now i must admit that Jet fighters are not my best subject , as i am more of a prop guy.

I have seen many other mistakes on the history channel, such as " the P-51 mustang was the only allied fighter able to escort bombers into germany " Well we all know that the P-38 was more than capible to do that as well.
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DREDIOCK · « **Reply #1 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:18:34 PM »

One Thing I've noticed is they tend to get their models mixed up.
One show whenever its on Keeps showing P51 Bs and Calling them P61 Ds

peregrin · « **Reply #2 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:30:28 PM »

Any chance they said "Fastest Naval fighter plane in the world"? That would be true I think.
--Peregrine.

SELECTOR · « **Reply #3 on:** February 24, 2005, 05:36:45 PM »

i think ive seen this programme a few times...im sure it says it was the fastest naval aircraft in the world at its time of introduction...still is the fastest i think.. still pig ugly

Slash27 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 24, 2005, 07:08:37 PM »

I actually thought the Tomcat was faster than the F-15. I also believe the Mig 25 was faster than both of them. Maybe Ill go crack a book?

Slash27 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 24, 2005, 07:18:47 PM »

ok, The F-15 is faster.

F-15 shows 1650 mph

F14 shows 1544 mph

The Mig 25 shows 1864 mph with the Mig 31 being 1 mph faster.

YUCCA · « **Reply #6 on:** February 24, 2005, 07:46:06 PM »

38ruk · « **Reply #7 on:** February 24, 2005, 08:59:15 PM »

the show never said anything about fastest naval fighter in the world . I was waiting for them to say naval ... but it never happened . It was even said on the commercial for the show . It was heavy metal F-14 tomcat .. 38

wetrat · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:04:14 PM »

THIS HISTORY CHANNEL SAID IT?! It was on TV.. has to be true.

Fruda · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:05:49 PM »

The History Channel fudges up a lot of things. Dates, Times, Specs, Facts, you name it.

They really need to get in line.

Raptor · « **Reply #10 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:06:17 PM »

I heard the F-14 is the only jet capable of breaking the sound barrier in a vertical climb. even though I also heard the F-15 had the fastest climb rate in the world...

Cobra412 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 24, 2005, 09:29:51 PM »

Raptor the F-15 did have it. Not sure if it's ever been broken. I wanna say the aircraft was 119. It went to 98,425 ft in 3 minutes 27.8 seconds. It coasted to nearly 103,000 ft before it fell back towards earth. That was done back with the old F100 motors which are governed. They don't actually use all 100% of what they are actually capable of.

Streak Eagle

And we don't list the actual top speed. What the public has been told is it can go to MACH 2.5 +.

nirvana · « **Reply #12 on:** February 24, 2005, 10:28:28 PM »

http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-14_tomcat.pl
F14 Top Speed:Mach 2.34
http://www.globalaircraft.org/planes/f-15_eagle.pl
F15 Top Speed: Mach 2.5+

SU-25 i'm going to take as sarcasm (Mach .8) its a ground attack yadda yadda

Slash27 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 24, 2005, 11:34:38 PM »

SU-25 i'm going to take as sarcasm

Who said anything about the Su 25?

peregrin · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2005, 01:37:44 AM »

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Originally posted by Slash27
ok, The F-15 is faster.

F-15 shows 1650 mph

F14 shows 1544 mph

The Mig 25 shows 1864 mph with the Mig 31 being 1 mph faster.

Mig 25 is faster than anything but the SR71, however, it's not a fighter. If I remember correctly, it's maximum g loading is 5g's. It was designed to be able to intercept supersonic bombers, and thats about it.
--Peregrine.