To: navysealdad
2 posted on
12/05/2009 6:48:33 PM PST by
PapaBear3625
(Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
To: navysealdad
The only reason it could do that is a) It's a frigging >1:1 thrust/weight rocket. b) The horizontal stabilizers are not just elevators (they move like ailerons as well). And they are huge. Lifting body dynamics also play a role.
I love the F-15. Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a land called Holloman, I was an EagleKeeper.
/johnny
To: navysealdad
The F-15 ruled the skies from the day she was put into operation (1974 +/-) until the day the F-22 was put into operation (2006 +/-) — a 30+ year run. They can talk about the Mig 29 until the cows come home, but the M29 was the F-15’s bitch from day 1.
There has never been a more beautiful or more effective milcraft ever. Even the F-22 uses electronic “tricks” (good ones, mind you) for a lot of its domination profile. The F-15 did it with superior design and execution. Her place in milcraft history is secure.
4 posted on
12/05/2009 6:55:45 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
To: navysealdad
WOW! (Pilots are awesome!)
5 posted on
12/05/2009 6:57:08 PM PST by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: navysealdad
"Smoke me a lox, I'll be back for breakfast"
6 posted on
12/05/2009 6:59:46 PM PST by
Oztrich Boy
(Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole)
To: navysealdad
I'd mention that this has been
posted before, but then I guess you posted it the last time too, so never mind :)
Impressive flying though...jeez...
7 posted on
12/05/2009 6:59:52 PM PST by
xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)
To: navysealdad
Not the first time this has happened. I remember seeing pics of an F15 in Germany (IIRC) that landed with the right wing outboard of the engine nacelle gone. This was at least 5 years ago.
McD can probably program a simulator to demonstrate the flight characteristics of a one winged Eagle.
8 posted on
12/05/2009 7:01:13 PM PST by
wrench
To: navysealdad; PapaBear3625
10 posted on
12/05/2009 7:03:21 PM PST by
Redcitizen
(Zartan for President 2012)
To: navysealdad
And the Warthog pilots are shaking their heads contemptuously at the drama queens in the hot jets.
17 posted on
12/05/2009 7:26:58 PM PST by
lurk
To: navysealdad
18 posted on
12/05/2009 7:36:17 PM PST by
Ro_Thunder
("Other than ending SLAVERY, FASCISM, NAZISM and COMMUNISM, war has never solved anything")
To: navysealdad
19 posted on
12/05/2009 7:45:47 PM PST by
rbosque
(11 year Freeper! Can't get rid of me Jim! Well, you can but you've put up with me so far.)
To: navysealdad
Saw one of these land with one wing once.
To: navysealdad
Not to nitpick or demean this pilot’s performance but the upside down aircraft shown at 52 seconds into the video is NOT an A4. Look at the egg-shaped air intake, looks more like a Sukhov or a Mig.
Comments, anyone?
24 posted on
12/06/2009 8:19:07 AM PST by
CTOCS
(...and man will live forever more, because of Christmas Day.....)
To: navysealdad
That is unreal. Awesome pilot, awesome aircraft.
27 posted on
12/06/2009 8:36:41 AM PST by
mysterio
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