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Israel to test rocket-assisted take-off with F-16
Flightglobal.com ^
| 15 September 2014
| ARIE EGOZI
Posted on 09/15/2014 7:19:21 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:13:53 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: taxcontrol; All
Burt Rutan (aviation guru :) had an proposed composite aircraft, that mimic the
A-10, very small airframe/off-center 30mm Cannon..(iirc) popular mechanic/science ✈
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:19:21 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Can’t be good for them. I can see that in a doomsday situation you want to get everything in the air you can, but you wouldn’t want to do it every day.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:27:09 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: taxcontrol
“I am of the opinion that Israel would be better off designing a smaller STOL capable A-10 Warthog equivalent. Something that can takeoff and land on a couple hundred feet of roadway; able to knock out tanks; able to provide ground fire support; and spend a long time in the air.”
A modernized version of the Swedish JA-37 Viggen sounds exactly like it would fit the bill.
It was designed to be simple to fix, operated from dispersed locations like remote roads with minimum support, and with good STOL performance, range, and loads.
The Swedes assumed they would have to operate far from their already-destroyed established bases if they ever went to war with Russia.
Imagine what they could do with that design using modern materials and electronics.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:36:32 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Q)
To: McGruff
“Seems like drones are the air force of the future. So many possible uses.”
Drones have two huge Achilles heels.
Communications, and programming. Both have to be unbreakable for it to be effective.
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:36:32 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Q)
To: Red Badger
And I heard about this guy that put one on his Chevy Impala and ran it into a cliff...
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posted on
09/15/2014 8:39:16 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MrB
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:04:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
To: sukhoi-30mki
To: sukhoi-30mki
What... Like the F-16 isn’t already enough of a hotrod for ya? Yeesh.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:22:16 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: NorthMountain
Tamden landing gear on that 1st pic?
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:38:27 AM PDT
by
Rannug
("all enemies, foreign and domestic")
To: Calvin Locke
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:55:02 AM PDT
by
az_gila
To: Rannug
B-47 was one beautiful airplane.
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posted on
09/15/2014 9:55:17 AM PDT
by
beelzepug
(You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
To: Rannug
Yep. B-47 was a strange beast. B-52 has a similar landing gear arrangement. Note the little landing gear about halfway out each wing.
To: skinkinthegrass
Burt Rutan (aviation guru :) had an proposed composite aircraft, that mimic the A-10, very small airframe/off-center 30mm Cannon..(iirc) popular mechanic/science â —————————————
A prototype was built and flown in 1990 -
It is the Scaled Composites ARES (Agile Responsive Effective Support).
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posted on
09/15/2014 10:02:00 AM PDT
by
az_gila
To: az_gila
dang! *sigh*..no pic.
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posted on
09/15/2014 10:14:28 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
To: skinkinthegrass
Did they ever find his body?
To: ken5050
I was thinking of quick-reaction range extention by allowing the aircraft to take off using military power instead of afterburner.
One of the big advantages (other than reducing compressor stalls, etc) in putting the big GE engines into the B and D model Tomcat was that in a good number of configurations the planes could be launched without needing afterburner.
To: Ramius
Ever see the later model F-16s? Particularly the D models that Israel flies (Barak and Sufa versions)?
They are definitely NOT the LWF hot rods from the mid-late 70s. Pods, blisters, enlarged spines, over-fuselage conformal fuel tanks and then really big (2000lb class) PGMs.
To: themidnightskulker; All
still livin',works @ Scaled composite LLC. ✈
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posted on
09/15/2014 11:19:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics in always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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