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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Can’t see what speed brakes you are talking about. I see two antenna below the cockpit under the new jet. Airborne pics show no speed-brakes that I can see. The T-38 had speed brakes under the fuselage. See no such things below the new jets fuselage.

Anecdote: After landing from a T-38 solo flight, I cleared the runway and stopped short of the center runway to complete my post-landing checklist when I noticed the T-38 that landed after me was kicking up dust and “swaying” and as it topped the slight rise in the runway, I saw the jet had landed gear-up. The student deployed his speed brakes and that action ground the speed-brakes into nothing. Pretty cool to watch.


17 posted on 09/17/2019 11:24:06 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: Hulka

I was confusing the antenna hanging down. Looked like some airfoil appendage.


29 posted on 09/17/2019 2:00:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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