04-22-2008, 08:29 AM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Goodbye Wobbly Goblin
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This plane, I never got to see.
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04-22-2008, 05:27 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Two of them were parked at the Van Nuys airport a couple of years back - security prevented anyone from going behind them to look at the engine outlets, but other than that they were up for display.
This seems a good time to rub in the fact that you live in NY now, missing these opportunities |
04-22-2008, 06:46 PM | #5 (permalink) | |
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04-26-2008, 12:14 PM | #8 (permalink) |
The sky calls to us ...
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I saw one for the first time when I was standing here
<iframe width="425" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.20304,-73.254773&spn=0.000944,0.001824&t=h&z=19&output=embed&s=AARTsJqzARj-Z8VnW5pkPMLMmZbqrJcYpw"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=41.20304,-73.254773&spn=0.000944,0.001824&t=h&z=19&source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">View Larger Map</a></small> the night the Afghanistan operations started. My brother and I were out walking, and heard an unfamiliar jet engine overhead. Based on size compared to my thumb at arm's length, it couldn't have been more than about 3000 feet up, and was traveling in the neighborhood of 600 mph. I imagine they fly this far north to catch the Gulf Stream and cut some time and fuel cost over the Atlantic. I've heard from USAF retirees that they were flying well before they officially became operational, although I'm skeptical of the Vietnam stories. edit: I was talking to my mom the other day, and I remembered this completely wrong. It was the night the Afghanistan campaign started that I saw the F117. It was another military plane, maybe a B-52 the night Gulf War II started. Last edited by MSD; 05-31-2008 at 01:42 PM.. |
04-26-2008, 07:31 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Saw an F-117 at an airshow in Hickory, NC when I was 10-12. I also distinctly recall being reminded of a bat.
I also wonder why the retirement of a very effective weapon system. Can the F-22 replicate the F-117's effectiveness? Probably, but since it's not (to the best of my knowledge) deployed outside the US, we don't yet know how it stacks up. We also know the Russians have developed techniques which render the F-117 visible, techniques which the F-22 may be better adapted to countering whether structurally or electronically. There's also the rumour of an equally "black" project; a stealthy variable-geometry fighter-bomber possibly intended to replace the F-111 and compete with the SU-32 Fullback. If the "Switchblade" proposed and funded by Northrup Grumman performs as intended, it would certainly be a worthy and much more capable successor to the F-117. I do note with some glee, however, that amidst all this high-tech wizardry, impressive as it is, the good old A-10 soldiers on. |
04-27-2008, 06:47 AM | #11 (permalink) | |
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Location: Pats country
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Warthog
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