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« on: May 16, 2019, 03:18:43 PM » |
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Oss
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« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2019, 03:27:02 PM » |
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One has been sitting on the flight deck of the Intrepid for at least a decade  Amazing a plane that leaks so much avgas at sea level that it must refuel minutes into flight Never shot down |
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If you don't know where your going any road will take you there
George Harrison
When you come to the fork in the road, take it
Yogi Berra (Don't send it to me C.O.D.)
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« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2019, 03:43:46 PM » |
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WAY back in the day when I was a kid, I ran a Commodore 64 BBS, named Beale Air Force Base in honor of the home base of the Habu...
When I took a crazy cross country road trip with my dad, getting as close to the front gate of Beale was one of the must-do things on the itinerary...
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away...  IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ |
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« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2019, 05:27:55 PM » |
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Chrisj CMA
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« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2019, 05:49:54 PM » |
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One has been sitting on the flight deck of the Intrepid for at least a decade
Amazing a plane that leaks so much avgas at sea level that it must refuel minutes into flight
Never shot down
Yes they leak on the ground, the tolerances tighten up with speed not altitude. They run out of gas minutes into a flight when they do a max power vertical ascent to high altitude. They level out and immediately refuel. I got a chance to talk to a few Habu pilots when I was stationed on Okinawa. I like those planes too. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2019, 06:18:22 PM » |
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Yes - more speed => more heat produced => more expansion of the metal, leading to sealing up of the planes fuel tanks.
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« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2019, 03:36:14 AM » |
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Great storyteller.
But who/what are the fastest guys on the block these days? Got to be something else??
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« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2019, 04:28:58 AM » |
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Great storyteller.
But who/what are the fastest guys on the block these days? Got to be something else??
Quite possible there's something we don't know about, but honestly I doubt it. Making a human carrying vehicle travel at hyper sonic speeds in the atmosphere using non-rockets is extremely complicated and expensive, and with satellites mostly removing the need for such craft, and non-manned drones covering the other needs from a military perspective, the entities with the pockets deep enough to do it don't have the need any longer... |
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Never ask a geek 'Why?',just nod your head and slowly back away... IBA# 22107 VRCC# 7976 VRCCDS# 226 1998 Valkyrie Standard 2008 Gold Wing Taxation is theft. μολὼν λαβέ |
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« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2019, 04:45:42 AM » |
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The SR-71 is still the fastest airplane. We don’t really know the top speed as it has always been classified but it’s over 3,000 mph. I have heard when they did speed trials they always had multiple blackbirds flying and landing at various places so no one could calculate flight times
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MarkT
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« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2019, 04:51:20 AM » |
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They had some SR-71's and U-2's stationed at U-TAPAO when I was there. They had armed guards positioned a good distance around them, with a canopy over the cockpit to stop aerial shots of the cockpit, and signs posted near the guard perimeter saying "Deadly Force Authorized". I was tokin on a doobie at the baseball park when a U2 took off, rotated almost vertical and rolled the bottom towards me. "OH ЅHIT I'M BUSTED NOW".
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scooperhsd
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« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2019, 08:16:00 AM » |
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if you're talking about planes actually still in service - my candidates would be
F15
F22
The latest generation Russian fighters
Typhoon
Saab Griffen
Rafale
However, being the fastest doesn't mean you have a usable advantage. A well trained, experianced aircrew trumps paper aircraft advantages, along with AWACS type support and the aircraft's sensors and knowing how to use them to best advantage (this translates into better situational awareness). The F22 and F35 have a big advantage with their stealth (everybody else is still trying to catch up - we have 20 years experiance on them)
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« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2019, 08:36:31 PM » |
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I worked on it for ten years. Flight test at Plant 42 Site 2 in Palmdale, Beale AFB, RAF Mildenhall, and Kadena AFB in Okinawa. Best job I ever had.
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« Reply #13 on: May 20, 2019, 06:56:16 AM » |
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One of my favorites ever.
It took 4 Western states to make a U turn.
One of the funniest I read, once the Russians built the latest, greatest, newest, record breaking fastest, and set a record.
We'd roll one, at random, out of the hanger, go up, retrieve the record and just go about our business.
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Aot of guys with burn marks,gnarly scars and funny twitches ask why I spend so much on safety gear
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« Reply #15 on: May 20, 2019, 12:40:15 PM » |
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google Tr-3b astra project
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