Posted on 09/05/2014 9:45:00 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Is it really so?
From what I heard, not the only thing it knocked out.
The sound of the supersonic prop could damage your hearing rather effectively.
The sonic boom from that prop also knocked a man down, among other things.
Only the tu-95 was louder.
To some degree.
Then there is what the aircraft is being used for.
Not being a pilot myself, I have heard differing definitions of “nice flying”.
One being whether it was a nice dogfighter.
The other, if it behaved well enough to fly from point a to point b without trying to take detours.
(Fw-190 had a nasty habit of kicking out from turns in later versions with the higher power BMW 801 engines and the jumo 213 engines. So you would be in a tight turn and find that your aircraft had different ideas.)
Some aircraft look odd, long eze, channelwing, berkut 360.
Supposedly nice planes.
But not suited for what some people are looking for.
lol
sonic boom, sitting still on the ground!
At idle no less.
Constant mach prop.
dang.
I hope the pilot was a sturdy fellow.
They were forced to tow it out into the middle of nowhere to do engine run up.
And the visible shockwaves spread laterally.
Wish I could find good video of that, no finding what im looking for on oootoob.
Some minor reading on it, interesting aircraft, if a bit impractical.
Seems like one Mig-21 could wipe out a lot of F-86s with one flight. Would have been interesting regardless, like the Mig-15/17 against the F-4.
Agreed.
I think cost might have also played a small part, not certain on that.
sounds like a beast
bump
The ‘Screech was.
They couldn’t overcome torque and stability issues, so it got shelved.
Somewhere it was mentioned that the noise it made caused headaches and “mental fugues”.
Wow, and who knows what the long term problems it could have caused for pilots and ground crews.
I read somewhere it shorted out radar towers, but that might have been someone being dumb.
Well, our F-15 pilots who flew long term near Tu-95’s often complained of vision issues, hearing, headaches, etc.
I can’t imagine sitting “inside” it like in the ‘Screech.
Most modern aircraft are quieter, thankfully so.
Unless its a howling F-104 with a J-79 engine.
The big development was the swept wing. Notice that neither of these pre-surrender planes had a swept wing. The only reason that either went active was that the Navy required very low landing speeds for a carrier trap and without a lot of airflow modifiers a swept wing plane is going too fast.
which also led to developments in the aircraft business to slow a plane down in the air, right?
At east the Tu-95 pilots weren’t right next to the engine like in the Thunderscreech. Probably why the Tu-95 could go into production.
During the 1965 war with India, the PAF F-104s flew 246 sorties, including 42 at night and claimed four IAF aircraft destroyed for the loss of two F-104As. Two F-104As were delivered from Taiwan as attrition replacements following the 1965 war.
The 102 is a misprint. the PAF actually had 12.
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