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To: Red Badger

One thing modern fighters can’t do is handle stalls with those skinny wings. One glitch in the computer stabilizing system or a slight loss of power at slow speeds and they drop.


21 posted on 03/12/2024 11:15:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Organic Panic; Red Badger; buwaya; Bobbyvotes
The aircraft, as evidenced by cellphone video, was stable till crashing. But it had lost power, either a bird-hit or a flameout of its single GE F404 engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPmTdPzDfF8&list=RDNSUPmTdPzDfF8&start_radio=1

22 posted on 03/12/2024 11:07:09 PM PDT by IndianChief
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