Posted on 09/21/2006 9:28:10 PM PDT by nametrader
Mighty F-35 Lightning 2 Engine Roars To Life by Staff Writers Fort Worth TX (SPX) Sep 21, 2006 The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II completed its first series of engine runs on Monday afternoon, culminating in a full-afterburner test that unleashed 40,000 pounds of thrust - the most ever from a jet-fighter engine. The testing began on Friday, Sept. 15, when Chief Pilot Jon Beesley moved a cockpit switch to the "run" position and brought the Pratt and Whitney [NYSE: UTX] F135 engine to life.
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I did not know they were retiring the A-10. They are in the process of upgrading them all to A-10C models, which will have glass cockpits and the ability to deliver a wider range of smart muntions.
When I was in the USN, I was on the flight deck of the USS JFK, and a Crusader had a compressor stall, frickking flames shot out the FRONT of the thing.
Made me spot myself.
But yes...a gorgeous, beautiful greyhound of a plane. Sleek...lovely!
She is a really good pilot.
That made me laugh!
Dude! Duct tape!
Ahhhhhhh The F-8!
I believe you're referring to Capt. Kim Campbell and I couldn't agree more, she's and excellent pilot and lucky to have made it back with the damage to her plane.
The plane and pilot I was actully referring to was an A-10 in Saudi Arabia that had sustained considerably more damage and the pilot was a Lt. Colonel or Colonel that was a squadron commander, I believe. I wish I could remember his name or had noted the article, it was several years ago I saw it.
Yeah, That's the one, Chuck Reed's kid...
The A-10 is the perfect fit for its designed mission.
the Navy has never deployed a single engine aircraft from a carrier, and I'm not sure they should start now.
The A-10 flight flown by Kim Campbell was actually the turning point in the war.
The flight through downtown Baghdad before the US controlled the city was fired on by every anti-aircraft battery still operating in Baghdad. The plane was hit by at least 1 missile and kept flying.
When Campbell turned the Gattling Gun on the Foreign Ministry building right on the Tigris River (a huge 8 story building that was in full view of everyone in the area) and shot the crap out of the building, every Iraqi soldier said "no way am I standing under that kind of fire-power."
When every other Iraqi soldier saw that an American pilot was willing to fly a slow plane 400 feet off the ground with all the anti-aircraft batteries firing at it full-bore and then just keep coming back for more, they knew the US soldiers meant business.
They all fled in the night and Baghdad was occupied by the US the next morning.
In addition to the tanks taking the bridge over the Tigris, the A-10 flight that day, convinced Saddam and all the Iraqi military to RUN.
No kidding. I nearly shat my pants...
I don't know if you have ever heard a compressor stall, but good God, it sounds like a rapid fire howizer...I literally did hit the deck, had never heard one before that (I was fairly inexperienced at that point)
Later on, after I got my turn-up license, I heard a few of them on planes I was fixing...
smonk...that aint true.
The USN has had plenty of single engine planes. I worked on one of them, the A-7 Corsair. There was the F-8 Crusader, A-4 Skyhawk...the Panther and so on.
There have been plenty.
F-8-2 looks like
On second thought, it looks a little odd. Photorecon bird?
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