When it comes to motor vehicles and aircraft, technology is all well and good but bottom line, there is little that excessive power cannot overcome.
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
So my ride on an F16D cost about $33,000. I shoulda saved my barf bag.
2 posted on
04/21/2013 3:08:07 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Wow, so you can operate a BUFF for a mere three times what it would take for an F-16?? Surprising.
3 posted on
04/21/2013 3:10:48 PM PDT by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I was just thinking of when I was a kid they had fighters which were just as fast as what we have now.
In 1963, 50 years ago, the F-104 would do 1500 mph.
4 posted on
04/21/2013 3:11:08 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Can an F-16 escape from Egypt?
5 posted on
04/21/2013 3:11:38 PM PDT by
budwiesest
(It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I read that when they designed the F16, they deliberately kept the generals and politicians out of the designing in order to make a superior aircraft.
7 posted on
04/21/2013 3:15:15 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The Su-27 - 35 series are pretty spiffy. Ignore them at your peril.
9 posted on
04/21/2013 3:19:01 PM PDT by
stboz
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
11 posted on
04/21/2013 3:19:22 PM PDT by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
ok, they are very cool jets...but, if they lose their ONLY engine, they’ll drop from the sky. A BUFF on the other hand, can lose and engine and still kick A$$! Same goes for any other multi engine military plane.
yeah, I know, jets are way faster and cooler, but BUFFs get it done and their shadow and their noise casts a scary power.
Proud of my former SAC days (yeah, I’m as old as dirt!) :)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I learned how to close a canopy on a SC ANG F-16 at MCAS Beaufort. Started to rain a little.
14 posted on
04/21/2013 3:23:03 PM PDT by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Quite a few years ago, I was at an Armed Forces Day celebration at Eglin. Besides two P-51s they had an F-80 fly by and do some mild acrobatics.
I remember thinking to myself that just looking at it flying I could not tell that it was inferior to the F-15s and F-16s which were also flying.
16 posted on
04/21/2013 3:24:55 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
It cannot land vertically like a Harrier. It depends upon an airfield.
30 posted on
04/21/2013 4:03:48 PM PDT by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
One of my childhood friends holds the world record for piloting time of the F16.
33 posted on
04/21/2013 4:10:56 PM PDT by
lightman
(If the Patriarchate of the East held a state like the Vatican I would apply for political asylum.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
It can’t come to my house and give me a ride. Love them. Love jets. Love the A-10.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
39 posted on
04/21/2013 4:18:16 PM PDT by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
There are pretty girls, and then there’s the woman you want to bear your children.
If you’re in a firefight and you need 500 rounds of 30mm depleted uranium pumped into a spot, there’s only one platform for the job.
40 posted on
04/21/2013 4:18:47 PM PDT by
lurk
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
52 posted on
04/21/2013 4:36:22 PM PDT by
KC Burke
(Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I'm just shocked that after a full page of posts there are no pictures.
I always thought the Corsair II was a neat looking plane.
53 posted on
04/21/2013 4:37:25 PM PDT by
Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Ah, that reminds me, I love the Avro Arrow too as well as have a soft spot for the CF-100 Canuck.
58 posted on
04/21/2013 4:47:14 PM PDT by
Nowhere Man
(Whitey, I miss you so much. Take care, pretty girl. (4-15-2001 - 10-12-2012))
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
While I would prefer an F-16 for air superiority, they don’t hold a candle to an A-10 in the CAS role.
66 posted on
04/21/2013 5:14:37 PM PDT by
snowrip
(Liberal? You are a socialist idiot with no rational argument.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The A-10 is not a fighter?
Not a fighter means not being flown by fighter pilots.
Try saying that in the bar at Davis-Monthan or any other A-10 base.
Not a fighter?
Armed with A/A missiles, a gun that can reach out and touch someone, no matter the target, ground or air, and a platform other fighters don’t want to get in a phone-booth fight.
Not a fighter, indeed.
The writer that wrote the A-10 is not a fighter is a class A putz.
67 posted on
04/21/2013 5:20:52 PM PDT by
Hulka
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