Posted on 10/24/2015 6:33:04 PM PDT by Yardstick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZGDE2y_2H8
Is or is not Trump going to take out the 12th
Mahdi well in Qom?
Who’s idea was it to take the cannons off our aircraft?
The North Vietnamese - okay, scratch that, Russian and ChiCom fighters - had cannon on their MiGs...
Seems pretty damned foolhardy to me.
Just came across an interesting video that has a slide early on of the full evolution of the T-38 platform to the F/A-18.
The original design was for a jet small enough to operate from a jeep carrier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9GkWsvw48M
Northrup has done a lot and a lot of it was done on their own money as venture capital type operations.
With his little finger... and one hand tied behind his back, just to make it fair.
More than 40 are still in USN and USMC inventory as adversary aircraft.
Started to watch it but it is too long and I am going to bed soon.
Now i cant remember if the f5 or the f20 is the tigershark.
I think the single-seat F-5 was the Tiger and dual seat the Tiger II.
Really? Must be one hell of an outstanding aircraft... it’s an old airframe. But then again, of COURSE it’s outstanding.
Old Buffy the B-52 proves that...
AMERICANS designed and built it. Our people can do anything when we put our minds and hearts to it.
It is in the first few minutes.
Yes.
And altitude heh
Good video and series. I disagree that the T-38/F-5 was “forgiving” as said in the video. That’s just hype. The wing was very thin. Coming around the final turn in the visual pattern was tricky and flown very fast, with an audible airflow separation being normal. Many students and instructors were killed because of mistakes in the turn to final in the T-38.
The T-38 was (is) a great trainer overall — could go supersonic in the climb, in afterburner.
The classic “coke bottle” shape gave the airframe lower drag characteristics at supersonic/transonic speeds.
The F-5 was the same airframe with a bigger engine — I think the F-5 had about the same power at 100 percent as the T-38 did with afterburner.
Hey brother!!! How are ya!!!
Good to see you!
I’m still alive and kicking doing 14 hour days.
How’s life on your end?
I’m praying you guys get Cruz for president, I hope that’s OK.
I think some of us still can design and build anything but we are running out of kids who grew up as gear heads and have a feel for the way things work in a hands on way. We overhauled engines and built brush buggies before we were 12 or 14, could weld by the time we were 10. We took drafting in high school.
These guys were engineer’s engineers. They did things right. Didn’t assume much but kept asking why and what if all the time. They worked with slide rule, nomograph and hand plotted data. Got intimate with the numbers and understood the physics of what they were doing.
Being a great engineer is more than being a nerd or a math whiz. It is that but it is also an art that you have to love and learn. You have to be in touch with the heart of the machine you are building.
The explanation one guy gave of why a flight test pitot tube has to be so long and why the chines on the F-18 and the canted tails had to be is just practical. The information that the engines need 161 lbm of air per second is down in the weeds detail engineering.
My Dad was an engineer for more than 30 years, I for more than 40 and my son for 10 now. I’m still learning and understanding.
RE Life:
It’s here. I’m here. Getting a paycheck, and still have alittle play money left over. Things are OK.
RE Cruz:
Trump or Cruz, either is good for me. Looking like Trump right now. He’s a fighter. We’ve needed that for a long time.
“..You have to be in touch with the heart of the machine you are building...”
That is the best definition of Engineering... Hell, of LIFE - I’ve ever heard.
Bravo, friend...
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