Having worked for Cessna and Beechcraft, the CJ and JPATS version of Cessna, were powered by Williams engines. as far as the merger of Cessna and Beech, that did not happen until 2014, the contract award for JPATS occurred in 1994 or there abouts... so they were not the same company when JPATS was awarded

My opinion is based on an understanding of the difference between modeling and empirical results.

“That like sitting down with your buddies and comparing goku, superman, and thor in a fight.”

FA commentators would have simply recommended replacing every plane the Danes have with an A10 and calling it day.

I read a lot of blogs and stuff so I know things!

The only thing fly testing them would achieve is people then spastically freaking out about a Typhoon out-turning it while totally misunderstanding the future of air combat - let alone combat in the digital age.

Instead of quoting a blogger for gawker, why don’t you read the actual evaluation and learn about the due diligence Denmark put in to this.

Oh yes, bring on the internet scholars who know more about what the Danish Air Force needs then the Danish Air Force!

The comparison was conducted hypothetically

I kept mine, just drove it only when necessary. Loving this $2.00 a gallon right now.

“Fuckin’ A!”

Yes, fling bombing is a technique that’s been used for as long as bombs have been dropped from aircraft. The half loop to escape was a unique maneuver for bombers though and was specifically designed for low altitude nuke runs to try and give the crew hope of escape.

German scientists were in charge of the rocketry program the sent both the USA and the Russians into space.

“Essentially, as the plane began to loop and the nose began tilting back towards the ground, the nuclear payload would be released.”

The “absurd vertical maneuver” is called ‘the idiots loop’. It was actually a very well thought out solution to the fact that atomic weapons had such destructive power that they could destroy the aircraft that delivered it. By releasing the bomb during the ascent phase, the bomb would travel a ballistic arc similar to…

I know it’s terrible for crew performance and psychology but damn I like the tandem cockpit on a big-ass bomber. And an even bigger-ass one too.

the Col. Kong method was a good solution but hazardous to the crewmember

Ultimately the exercise was never needed in battle during the Cold War, and the B-47 would go on to retire in the ‘70s without ever delivering a payload in combat.

They would be way too far away to get any significant radiation. They were worried about blast.

Nonetheless, the B-47 was probably the single most important advancement in jet transportation ever. Up until we found all the secret Nazi engineering documents, the US and Brits were sort of floundering around with all kinds of different design ideas. Thanks to the clever Germans, we not only found out about a better…

Also known as the “over the shoulder” variant of toss-bombing.