To: Wombat101
Because all then VTOL aircraft will take years to bring online, Yep they've been working on them over 25 years now. Before I got out in 1980 I saw Harriers doing flight ops off a nearby LPH I think in late 1979. From what I understand it simply still takes too much fuel to get them in the air thus cutting down on effective radius.
65 posted on
03/18/2006 9:48:57 AM PST by
cva66snipe
(If it was wrong for Clinton why do some support it for Bush? Party over nation destroys the nation.)
To: cva66snipe
From what I understand it simply still takes too much fuel to get them in the air thus cutting down on effective radius.The problem isn't that the short takeoff burns too much fuel, it's that a shorter (or worse yet vertical) takeoff run significantly reduces allowed GTOW. You don't have a full load of fuel in the first place.
76 posted on
03/18/2006 11:05:11 PM PST by
CGTRWK
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