Thrust vectoring is not necessarily the panacea that it may seem to be. As described by one F-15 fighter pilot who has been in training dogfights against F-22s and Su-30MKI, once you get into thrust vectoring, you are at a very high angle of attack. Essentially, you are pushing a very large fighter’s bottom against…
Well, shit...when you put it that way it does sound pretty cool.
I mean...you saw a stealth, supersonic strike fighter come to a complete stop and hover. That's pretty fucking impressive.
I had fuzzy bunny ones...I only used them at home station, though. Since bomber units at the time deployed to RAF Fairford, I didn’t want them to get damp.
Might lose their floof; or worse, get a pint of Caffrey’s spilled on them.
And fuck Kinja with all of its errors over the last month. Where is the goddamned edit button!?
Let’s see if I can make a summary of some of the repetitive (and completely unrelated to the article) comments on the recent Foxtrot Alpha articles.
I had no clue that Lone Star got into aerospace defense, lol
Let’s turn this thread into something better:
How do you know?
Nah T-38
No this
I remember hearing about the Goodyear plant in Arizona during WWII manufacturing Consolidated Coronado cockpits, and how each one had to be leak tested for 3 hours before being sent to San Diego for final assembly. Of course, like most wartime factories, women did most of the work.
I know there’s a fundamental difference here, but I’m gonna go with:
xb-70 is awesomer, but I think the B1 might still be sexier - big, loud, fast AND curvy.
Affectionately referred to by everyone as the “climax lab” I’ve been in in many time back when stationed at Eglin. I’ve seen National Guard units doing winter survival training in there, snow tires being tested on instrumented trailers and the best part- watching some guy operating a front end loader depositing huge…
Quality Assurance will write you a “Direct Safety Violation” or DSV, and you’ll be in front of the Maintenance Group Commander for a snowball. Ask me how I know.
I find the B-1B to be very attractive, but I will never understand the planekakke subculture.
