J-20... The New Generation Fighter III
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Helping Deino post GIFs:
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I want one of my own!
Yes and I still buy the old engineers, "form follows function", or "if it looks good, it will fly good", or my own old Daddies, "with enough horsepower, you can fly anything". This as we observed the old "super guppy", at LRAFB about 1972, and yes my feet aren't the only thing I'm draggin, my tailend has callouses, and yes my Gixxer 1000 is ten years old but its still way too fast. Yes the fueling on it is way better than carburators. I'm sure you guys are all right, but why have to fix a design flaw electronically, far better to get the design and materials right in the first place, and use your FBW for tweaks. I would remind you fellows of the B2 we lost on Guam, the F-22s that lost Nav etc crossing the international dateline on their way to Kadena, or the F-35s vertical stab buffet. Looking back, mostly predicatable, should these failures surprise us? No, will they continue to occur, Yes. And Yes Mr. Murphy is my uncle, why do you ask? LOL Keep up the good work gentlemen.
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Me too, but you guys start saving your nickels and dimes, I still want a T-50, mig29 are you going to start that Pak Fa thread? I really do love em all. I am serious mig although I'm sure we'll never have a daily airshow. Guys, I have yet to see that Immellman on a video link, again the immellman is the pitch to and through the vertical, no heading change, if you start on a heading of 360, you roll out on top on a heading of 180 degrees.
Using fly by wire and purposefully design aircraft with 'flaws' allow you to do stuffs that are aerodynamically impossible otherwise.
There is another advantage -- do you know why countries invest in new advanced trainers with fly by wire (and glass cockpit) despite it being a lot more expensive than old trainers that are perfectly serviceable? Because this type of trainers can mimic flying quality of other multiple aircraft concurrently, so twin seat version of the combat aircraft are not needed anymore for training purpose. And it's adaptable for aircraft yet to be developed as well, as long as the flight envelop are contained within (or at lest overlap in relevant regime) with the trainer's.
There is another advantage -- do you know why countries invest in new advanced trainers with fly by wire (and glass cockpit) despite it being a lot more expensive than old trainers that are perfectly serviceable? Because this type of trainers can mimic flying quality of other multiple aircraft concurrently, so twin seat version of the combat aircraft are not needed anymore for training purpose. And it's adaptable for aircraft yet to be developed as well, as long as the flight envelop are contained within (or at lest overlap in relevant regime) with the trainer's.
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