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Is There Anything An F-16 Cannot Do? (Break from Politics)
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| April 21, 2013
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Posted on 04/21/2013 3:06:00 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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When it comes to motor vehicles and aircraft, technology is all well and good but bottom line, there is little that excessive power cannot overcome.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
So my ride on an F16D cost about $33,000. I shoulda saved my barf bag.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:08:07 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Wow, so you can operate a BUFF for a mere three times what it would take for an F-16?? Surprising.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:10:48 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I was just thinking of when I was a kid they had fighters which were just as fast as what we have now.
In 1963, 50 years ago, the F-104 would do 1500 mph.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:11:08 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Can an F-16 escape from Egypt?
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:11:38 PM PDT
by
budwiesest
(It's that girl from Alaska, again.)
To: yarddog
My vote for all-time coolest-looking goes to the F-111.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I read that when they designed the F16, they deliberately kept the generals and politicians out of the designing in order to make a superior aircraft.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:15:15 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
To: Still Thinking
You mean the Aardvark?
I personally would vote for the Spitfire, tho the Messerschmidt BF-109 was close.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:15:59 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The Su-27 - 35 series are pretty spiffy. Ignore them at your peril.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:19:01 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: yarddog
In 1963, 50 years ago, the F-104 would do 1500 mph. Just don't try to turn.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:19:07 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:19:22 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom)
To: al baby
That’s why they have female pilots.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
ok, they are very cool jets...but, if they lose their ONLY engine, they’ll drop from the sky. A BUFF on the other hand, can lose and engine and still kick A$$! Same goes for any other multi engine military plane.
yeah, I know, jets are way faster and cooler, but BUFFs get it done and their shadow and their noise casts a scary power.
Proud of my former SAC days (yeah, I’m as old as dirt!) :)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I learned how to close a canopy on a SC ANG F-16 at MCAS Beaufort. Started to rain a little.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:23:03 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: Still Thinking
The Bone is sexiest by far
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:23:39 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Quite a few years ago, I was at an Armed Forces Day celebration at Eglin. Besides two P-51s they had an F-80 fly by and do some mild acrobatics.
I remember thinking to myself that just looking at it flying I could not tell that it was inferior to the F-15s and F-16s which were also flying.
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:24:55 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
To: yarddog
1500mph cant outrun a missile in any decade though.
To: Future Snake Eater
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:27:22 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: Sirius Lee
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:30:58 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: hattend
The Bone is sexiest by far B-1Bs for the world!
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posted on
04/21/2013 3:31:04 PM PDT
by
GBA
(Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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