F-35 Problems?

[desertrat]

I worked 4-midnight at Moody AFB. Dorm was near the runway. Sound asleep at 7:00am when they started taking off. And the Prat & Whitney J-79 burned fuel like crazy! Damn I hated those loud effers.

Plus you could see them coming for miles because of the smoke.

 

[limblips]

He may have trashed the Eagle and the Tomcat but he was proven wrong. They are two of the best air superiority fighters to ever fly.

Read the book. They are/were not what they could have been. Bigger and faster doesn't mean better.

 

[Bann]

He may have trashed the Eagle and the Tomcat but he was proven wrong. They are two of the best air superiority fighters to ever fly.

Brother, BIL & Ex were all F-14 plane mechs - for 20 years that's all I heard about.

I even got to see one go to high power over at the Hush House at PAX one time. Cool stuff!

 

[Bann]

Yea, now hit [ctrl] [F7] Cya.

 

[Bann]

Lance - you're an idjit of the highest magnitude. Seek help, nuttie.

 

[desertrat]

Read the book. They are/were not what they could have been. Bigger and faster doesn't mean better.

Oh, c'mon. Read some of the old news about our encounters with Libyan and others who came out to challange them. "Splash two"! Not even in heat seeking missle range.

 

[GWguy]

Brother, BIL & Ex were all F-14 plane mechs - for 20 years that's all I heard about.

I even got to see one go to high power over at the Hush House at PAX one time. Cool stuff!

I have a very soft spot for the F-14. That was the program I started on 30 years ago, knew many of the test pilots personally, went diving and repaired SCUBA regulators for one of them, one is still my boss.

It is incredibly impressive to be sitting less than 50 feet away from one launching at MIL power (110%) from the catapult. Wish I could have seen that from an a/c carrier deck, but computer techs don't get that kind of opp very often.

 

[GWguy]

Oh, c'mon. Read some of the old news about our encounters with Libyan and others who came out to challange them. "Splash two"! Not even in heat seeking missle range.

Heard about those event from the father of one of the pilots of the F-14. Very interesting times.

 

[smdavis65]

Oh yes, I see you all inside my computer. Oh stop! That tickles! Oooo Baybay!! Yessss, right there!! Do me sweetie! Wiggle my RAM. That's it!! Now tweak my registry! Right there!! that's it!! I'm gonna cum baby!! Rub my task manager! OH LANCE!!!!

OK, now that is funny! LOL!

 

[Bann]

Read the book. They are/were not what they could have been. Bigger and faster doesn't mean better.

Get out of our country, Al Qaeda!

 

[desertrat]

Heard about those event from the father of one of the pilots of the F-14. Very interesting times.

Yep, love to hear that.

aint he a trip w/o a ticket 2 where eva? bajabber dysfunctional 4 sure. wrapped his rag round his w/e bump on his head way 2 friggin 2 tite.

You should just shut the f up.

 

[Bann]

I have a very soft spot for the F-14. That was the program I started on 30 years ago, knew many of the test pilots personally, went diving and repaired SCUBA regulators for one of them, one is still my boss.

It is incredibly impressive to be sitting less than 50 feet away from one launching at MIL power (110%) from the catapult. Wish I could have seen that from an a/c carrier deck, but computer techs don't get that kind of opp very often.

I was there in the HH incognito. Very hush-hush, you might say. To this day it remains one of the most awesomest experiences in the whole wide world EVAH

 

[desertrat]

stfu dikwad. go bury yr skat.

Sometimes you are a little bit entertaining and come off ok, other times, not quite so much.

 

[Bann]

Oh, c'mon. Read some of the old news about our encounters with Libyan and others who came out to challange them. "Splash two"! Not even in heat seeking missle range.

Heard about those event from the father of one of the pilots of the F-14. Very interesting times.

I get confused about which incidents happened when. But my brother was on the ship one of those planes launched from.

 

[desertrat]

Sure, it was hilarious. I thought we were talking fighter planes here though not poop.

 

[Bann]

Sure, it was hilarious. I thought we were talking fighter planes here though not poop.

That's why we should not feed the little troll boy.

 

[PrepH4U]

That's why we should not feed the little troll boy.

No let him starve!

 

[limblips]

Oh, c'mon. Read some of the old news about our encounters with Libyan and others who came out to challange them. "Splash two"! Not even in heat seeking missle range.

I don't need to read about it, I was there for the Libyan shoot down. Long range missiles do not a fighter make unless the ROE enable the fighter to shoot what he has not visually confirmed. My point is that a fighter aircraft needs to be able to fight when in close proximity to his enemy. I understand love for the aircraft you have worked with but the F-14 and F-15 were not great dogfighters. The F-14 wing sweep transition time was much too slow to be effective in a true fighter environment and the F -15 is just too big and heavy to be able to turn inside the enemy in a true dogfight. I still maintain that unmanned aircraft are the future. Take your beloved F-14 for example. If there were no need for support of a human, how much smaller, lighter and more maneuverable could the aircraft have been made? No environmental equipment, no seat, no gauges, no controls, etc..... The limit to manned aircraft today is the human inside it.

 

[DoWhat]

J-79 burned fuel like crazy! Damn I hated those loud effers.

Plus you could see them coming for miles because of the smoke.

J-57.
Any idea what A/C?

 

[GWguy]

I don't need to read about it, I was there for the Libyan shoot down. Long range missiles do not a fighter make unless the ROE enable the fighter to shoot what he has not visually confirmed. My point is that a fighter aircraft needs to be able to fight when in close proximity to his enemy. I understand love for the aircraft you have worked with but the F-14 and F-15 were not great dogfighters. The F-14 wing sweep transition time was much too slow to be effective in a true fighter environment and the F -15 is just too big and heavy to be able to turn inside the enemy in a true dogfight. I still maintain that unmanned aircraft are the future. Take your beloved F-14 for example. If there were no need for support of a human, how much smaller, lighter and more maneuverable could the aircraft have been made? No environmental equipment, no seat, no gauges, no controls, etc..... The limit to manned aircraft today is the human inside it.

All of the above is true, however once you remove the pilot, the mission of the UAV changes. UAVs will never be dogfighters. Look at all the UAVs in our arsenal now, no dogfighters. All are long range strike/recon devices.