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Offline Wes14

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« Reply #15 on: October 24, 2007, 05:52:39 AM »
Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.

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« Reply #16 on: October 24, 2007, 06:06:56 AM »
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« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2007, 06:17:59 AM »
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Tower, this is Ghost rider requesting a flyby.

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« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2007, 06:31:52 AM »
They are all in the bone yard.
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« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2007, 07:25:59 AM »
If you hit the brakes, the bad guy will fly right by.

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« Reply #20 on: October 24, 2007, 07:34:11 AM »
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« Reply #21 on: October 24, 2007, 07:38:19 AM »
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It will do a 4g, inverted dive with a Mig 28.


Actually Stang, it can do a NEGATIVE 4g, inverted dive. ;)

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« Reply #22 on: October 24, 2007, 07:51:49 AM »
Maybe i'm slow to get this but there is no such thing as a -4g dive. If you are upside down and you pull (to dive) you are going to be putting on positive g. If you are upside down and you push you are going to be experiencing negative g.  

This some kind of Topgun joke along with the fact that there is no Mig 28 ??

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« Reply #23 on: October 24, 2007, 08:03:39 AM »
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Maybe i'm slow to get this but there is no such thing as a -4g dive. If you are upside down and you pull (to dive) you are going to be putting on positive g. If you are upside down and you push you are going to be experiencing negative g.  

This some kind of Topgun joke along with the fact that there is no Mig 28 ??
sure there is it was cleverly disguised as an F-5E

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« Reply #24 on: October 24, 2007, 08:51:23 AM »
The F-4 and F-8 were much better looking
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

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« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2007, 09:06:01 AM »
-The F-14 used the engines and radar that were originally designed for the F-111.  The engines proved to be extremely prone to compressor stalls.

-The F-14 was not a 9g fighter.  It was limited to +7.5g and later +6.5g as the airframes aged.

-As seen in Topgun, when the F-14 was in an unrecoverable flat spin, there was not enough airflow to sufficiently separate the canopy from airframe.  Several RIOs were actually killed by striking the canopy.

-The F-14 proved to be a very capable bomber in the first Gulf War, and later in the Serbian war it acted as both bomber and forward air controller.  F-14 controlled strike units had the honor having a much lower friendly-fire rate than Air force units.

-The 8 foot spacing between the F-14s engines were a direct result of lessons learned in the F-4, in which the destruction of one engine usually threw enough debris and shrapnel to destroy the other engine.  Ironically, this wide spacing is what caused such tremendous yaw during engine failure in the F-14, causing its high accident rate.

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« Reply #26 on: October 24, 2007, 09:17:55 AM »
Would not thrust vectoring, if it was ever to be incorporated in the F-14, get it out of a flat spin?

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« Reply #27 on: October 24, 2007, 09:24:03 AM »
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« Reply #28 on: October 24, 2007, 09:25:23 AM »
We'll never know now!

- the F-14A+ was the first American fighter to be able to cat without being in burner

-The Phoenix missile was never fired in anger. All opponents ran from F-14s.

- the F-14D had a new radar the APG-71 and could not fire the Phoenix. It used AIM120s. It also had an advanced avionics package. Was replaced by the F-18E/F Superhornet

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« Reply #29 on: October 24, 2007, 09:42:39 AM »
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All opponents ran from F-14s.


Except those 2 Lybian Mig-23's... I believe they shot a missle first... kinda hard to do when your running away.