Posted on 07/13/2020 10:33:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Seen one fairly close doing ‘acrobatics” at an airshow.
Don’t know much about planes, but to me it seemed really remarkable.
It’s fly-by-wire, so it CAN ACTUALLY DO MORE THAN THE PILOT CAN!.......................
Bring on the F22 drone plz.
When I was flight test at Edwards back when there were only two F-16s (tail # 567 & 568 - go figure), one of the first high speed taxi tests turned into an unplanned flight due to that control stick not moving. The pilot had no real feel feedback relating to pressure vs control deflection. That changed after that flight - as described now, those pressure sensitive controls move a bit in order to allow our proprioceptive feedback a little input in the action. :-)
Detailed technical discussions of our modern war birds SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSED PUBLICLY.
Stop. I forgot. the professors(and also )maybe generals, the officers at lockheed/boing etc.- that deny me- job for not having secret clearnace - are already on CCP payroll
Well let’s tell the World all about it. Somebody should shut this idiot down. No need to make it easier on other people.
Wait one darn Minute. Doesn’t this Black guy know that the Democrats think he is too stupid to fly an F-22 or even a Cessna 150?
Got to watch F-22s ‘dog-fight’ F-15s over Okinawa back in 2007 - impressive maneuverability.
I'd hit it - With an F-22!
Ping for later
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sold everything classified of value to anyone with the money while she was there, and I'm sure the Raptor was included.
Yep - fighter pilots are an amazing group of people! His point - all pilots are amazing people too! I’ve flown Cessna’s and F-16, F-15s. Not much different except the speed, time compression, and G loads. They all fly basically the same.
My daughter is now an Air Force Pilot, things have changed —better nav aids, communications, and weather forecasting than the wild west days of my youth.
Glad to see MIT is taking advantage of his unique perspectives in their engineering programs.
BTW - I worked with many Hispanic, Asian, and Black pilots during my time in the AF - we were/are our own ethnicity (all pilots).
There is nothing classified in what he describes - hearing it is not doing it. Everything is in the public domain and in fact most of what he describes is already in use by manufactures all over the world - Airbus has many of these features
2nd thing I noticed.
I didn’t know our Laz was so young!
LAZ?
Is their something you ain’t tellin’ us?????
I’d hit it with a control sick in a cock pit...
Stick, now there’s a Freudian slip!
Which button transforms it into Starscream?
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