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Offline icepac

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #420 on: June 23, 2016, 05:14:58 PM »
The problem with american air power goes far deeper than a single plane.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #421 on: June 24, 2016, 05:44:33 PM »
First video I've seen of the F35 cranking on some Gs at low altitude in an "air show" mode.  All the other vids I've ever seen other than a few early test vids are of the US pilots treating it in a docile manner.  Try to ignore the euro-mmpssh mmmpsssh techno music.  F35s start flying a couple minutes in or so.



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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #422 on: June 24, 2016, 09:18:35 PM »
I thought so too Gscholz, for as much as you can tell from a few turns in one vid.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #423 on: June 25, 2016, 11:18:24 AM »
Another video from the F-35 debut at Luchtmachtdagen airshow in the Netherlands. Some nice closeups, and a view of the F-35s going transonic at low level. Also no techno music.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #424 on: June 25, 2016, 02:51:27 PM »
Transonic flight at almost sea level in a high-G turn without afterburner. That jet engine has some serious thrust!
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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #425 on: June 25, 2016, 11:41:20 PM »
Interesting topic:

Not pointing the finger solely at the USAF but also their political masters and those on the industrial end of things:

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #426 on: June 29, 2016, 02:36:24 PM »
This thing flies almost every day where I work, and I have talked to many many pilots both contractor and mil and they said on several different occasions that once the "minor problems" get straightened out this thing will be a monster.  Any new acft has problems, the newer and higher the tech the more problems.  The plane I work with has been in development since 98 and we still see new problems.
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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #427 on: June 29, 2016, 06:31:58 PM »
This thing flies almost every day where I work, and I have talked to many many pilots both contractor and mil and they said on several different occasions that once the "minor problems" get straightened out this thing will be a monster.  Any new acft has problems, the newer and higher the tech the more problems.  The plane I work with has been in development since 98 and we still see new problems.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #428 on: June 29, 2016, 06:36:50 PM »
RAF F-35Bs depart from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort for their long Atlantic crossing to Farnborough, England... I'm looking forward to watching their display there.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #429 on: July 04, 2016, 12:32:22 PM »
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« Reply #430 on: July 04, 2016, 01:47:12 PM »
Who is Eric Palmer and why should I read a single word on his blog?
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« Reply #431 on: July 04, 2016, 03:38:10 PM »
Who is Eric Palmer and why should I read a single word on his blog?

Someone who knows a heck of a lot more about the F-35 than you appear to, my friend.     :salute


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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #432 on: July 04, 2016, 04:00:47 PM »
Apparently, what the F35 lacks is a proper adversary within our own armed forces.

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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #433 on: July 04, 2016, 05:39:02 PM »
Someone who knows a heck of a lot more about the F-35...

I doubt that very much. Clearly a conspiracy theorist blog.
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Re: Dogfight : F35 vs F16
« Reply #434 on: July 05, 2016, 04:03:24 AM »
I doubt that very much. Clearly a conspiracy theorist blog.


Hahahahaha uh....no. 


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