F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread

Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
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Air Force Brat said:
One of my Dad's students in the C-130 was a Norwegian Air Force Officer.

On a more important note the F-35 is coming to EAA Air Venture this summer??? they will likely announce the arrival and departure times later?? sadly just a static display, but worth the trip just to see it fly.
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Also there will be an F-100 present at Air Venture for the first time, and its my understanding that it will participate in the Warbird displays which should include at least some flying. It is civilian owned and based in Indiana, how about that Fighter fans???
 
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Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
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Jura said:
:) I was unaware of that air-show, found its webpage, but gave link specifically to the F-35 ... and now it looks like I can't tell F-35 from Sabre LOL but since I read "Korean War Aces" I know the F-86 Sabre though
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The F-100 was the Super Sabre and quite an airplane, the Thunderbirds were flying the Hun when I first saw them as a kid, a beautiful, beautiful airplane, but early ones had some severe controllability issues at very low speeds it would pitch up, in fact the very sad video of an early Century series fighter is the F-100 pitching up and then stalling and rolling into a fireball!
First of the Century series fighters.

Actually the T-birds flew the F-100 twice, Thunderchief may know this but they tried to fly the F-105 and it was simply too heavy and not a good airshow aircraft, so back to a later model of F-100, about 68 or 69?? I believe.
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
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Jura said:
I searched youtube using the description you gave ... and I'm afraid I found it ... terrible :-(
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She's a "lead sled" the new bird has a take-off run into the next county on the internet, the infamous Bob Hoover was North Americans demo pilot and was injured in a bad accident caused by an explosion called a compressor stall, his surviving the crash led to the discovery of the "compressor stall"...something no one had ever named or heard of until they examined and determined the cause of Bob's crash. Hoover is an amazing Dude, far more aviator than our old buddy Chuck Yeager?? check him and the Hun out???
 
thunderchief

thunderchief

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Air Force Brat said:
Actually the T-birds flew the F-100 twice, Thunderchief may know this but they tried to fly the F-105 and it was simply too heavy and not a good airshow aircraft, so back to a later model of F-100, about 68 or 69?? I believe.
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Unfortunately , pilot Captain Eugene J. Devlin died during one of Thunderbird's demonstrations in 1964 . Version of F-105 was B , with lots of flaws .
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