The seat reclines at 30 degrees and is static. It does not rotate during flight no matter what the G-load

They used to...

Those are GBU-39 glide bombs....although the AC-130 can also carry Hellfire Missiles on its wings.

Well the Thuds (F-105s) had a gun, F-100s too, and A-1s. You must be talking bout the F-4C and Ds.

I could find a Blue Angels’ similar if I looked. Of course there is a lateral offset and pretty sure there is some offset in this demo....but a highly polished edit makes thing’s look very ..well..adventurous.

Exactly and cease tactical maneuvering and return the jet to a stabilized state and then sort things out.

Not entirely true. When the big boys fly polar routes, they switch their navigation system to ‘True’ because mag headings get confused above 75 Degrees N. Latitude. However, I’ll agree that generally mag north is used as the reference because that’s the way it’s been since the compass was invented. BTW GPS can give…

In modern airline type aircraft with INS, a couple of buttons pressed could get you all headings in ‘True’. However you are right, RW heading markers are ‘mag’. Just saying it’s a convention that could be changed to using ‘True’ with the proper technology.

But there even exceptions to that convention as in the runways of Phoenix Sky Harbor. The 2 runways on the south side ore 7L, 7R/25R, 25L and the runway on the north side is 8/26, EVEN though all 3 are parallel. Named to prevent confusion.

If wind direction, runway headings etc were all locked to ‘True’ North, then the numbers wouldn’t change. However a lot of systems in aircraft are still dependent on the ‘flux’ or magnetic north for navigation so this will probably never change.

Young whipper snappers! Born in 1946. Dad with family stationed in England was flying F-86s in 1953. The big news as a recall (I was attending a British public primary school) - Queen Elizabeth was crowned! Can’t believe she’s still the goddamn queen.

These two rolls aren’t really ‘barrel’ rolls. They’re ‘aileron’ rolls that can be performed by any air frame that has a decent roll rate. Barrel rolls, while keeping positive Gs throughout, take a lot more space and altitude. Aileron rolls, depending on how fast you roll, may introduce some ‘light in the seat’ or…

Fighter pilots go on to become airline pilots just like heavy pilots. I flew with an airline of 6000 pilots, have of whom were former military and half of them were former fighter pilots. I doesn’t hurt your hiring chances with a major if you were a turner and burner even if you had less hours than a heavy military…

Geostationary satellites that broadcast TV signals orbit over the equator at the same rational speed as the earth and are approx 26,000 miles above the earth. These type of satellites don’t take pictures or imagery. They only relay digital signals from the earth and back down using antenna that is focused on certain…

The only place you can put a stationary satellite is over the equator and at 26,000 miles the imagery is not very good. Study a little astro-physics 101.

“from the first article in the series a large number of aircraft losses were from friendly fire”

Friendly fire bringing down one of our aircraft or allied aircraft was very rare, in fact if it there was one incident, let me know about it. Two F-15s did shoot down a couple of US helicopters in 1993, but the ‘Gulf War’ was well over. IFF worked well during that war but has been improved somewhat since.

My post will probably be relegated to the ‘pending’ bin, but the SR-71 never flew over Russia. I know the fanboys will say BS and say the classified missions will never be released, but watch the interview with the former Wing Commander of the wing at Beale AFB where he states this fact.

Here are some more facts that will surprise hardcore SR-71 fanboys :

“when the Aggressors were prohibited from having decent radar units back in the 80’s so they bought some Fuzzbuster auto radar detectors and had them jury rigged into their planes and kicked ASS!”