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Watch a F-16 Take Off and Incredibly Shoot Up 15,000 Feet in the Air in Seconds
Wow, this is beyond incredible. Here’s footage of an F-16 launching itself 15,000 into the air in less than 45 seconds. It’s basically a vertical straight shot and you get to see how high—the fighter jet looks like its suspended in air for a moment there—the airplane goes and how small the rest of the world looks in what is essentially the aircraft’s rear view. It gets so high that you half expect it to like, fall back to Earth. (sploid.gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
If I could just have one day in that plane.
I'd take one hour...but probably would loose my lunch... ;)
...............that's about the coolest thing i've ever seen with my clothes on..............
April 1974 this RCAF fitter straps in to the back seat of a CF104 Starfighter. After an engine change a test flight has to be flown to Mach2 to test for T2 reset. We are clean clean, the 104 doesn't like Mach2 with tip tanks, they go to negative angle attack. We have 12 min of fuel at full burner.
A quick taxi out to the runway and light her off.
Two min later we are 1 mile down the runway and six miles directly above CFB Cold Lake.
A few quick checks, turn north and relight, two min later we are in a 3G turn back to the base so we don't get too far away. As we approach the base we decelerate in the thickening air and Capt John David tells me we have no fuel for a go around.
If we don't land we go to the bailout area and he will say eject eject, the third time will be just an echo.
That is one flight permanently burned into my memory.
A quick taxi out to the runway and light her off.
Two min later we are 1 mile down the runway and six miles directly above CFB Cold Lake.
A few quick checks, turn north and relight, two min later we are in a 3G turn back to the base so we don't get too far away. As we approach the base we decelerate in the thickening air and Capt John David tells me we have no fuel for a go around.
If we don't land we go to the bailout area and he will say eject eject, the third time will be just an echo.
That is one flight permanently burned into my memory.
We got rid of the Arrow and bought that useless airplane nobody wanted. Well only those countries that couldn't afford a real fighter. When it turned out we didn't really need an interceptor we turned it into a low level attack bomber!
The only thing it was good for was putting a smile on a pilots face. The thing was more fun than sex.
Now we are going to do the same thing, get rid of a reasonably useful airplane and replace it with something we don't need.
We need to patrol the arctic so that when Denmark or whoever comes snooping around we can send a pilot up to give them the international symbol.
A single engine stealthy airplane is useless. Who wants to be a 1000 miles from a base with one engine,,,, and we want them to know we are there.
But what the hell would I know?
The only thing it was good for was putting a smile on a pilots face. The thing was more fun than sex.
Now we are going to do the same thing, get rid of a reasonably useful airplane and replace it with something we don't need.
We need to patrol the arctic so that when Denmark or whoever comes snooping around we can send a pilot up to give them the international symbol.
A single engine stealthy airplane is useless. Who wants to be a 1000 miles from a base with one engine,,,, and we want them to know we are there.
But what the hell would I know?
not only a plane you don't need but also crazy expensive !
In the old days, with afterburners full on, we called that an unlimited take off.