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Javelin: your own personal fighter jet
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Posted on 12/17/2006 6:34:49 AM PST by Flavius
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that is so sweet
i wont one bad
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:34:51 AM PST
by
Flavius
To: Flavius
The $2.8m two-seater jet
Lot of money to carry 2 golf bags and a buddy.
Now if they put two 25MM cannons and a couple of air to air missiles on board I would consider.
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:40:55 AM PST
by
Recon Dad
(Marine Spec Ops Dad)
To: Nailbiter
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:41:21 AM PST
by
IncPen
(When Al Gore Finished the Internet, he invented Global Warming)
To: Flavius
Does anyonoe know if it started life as the BD-10?
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:43:52 AM PST
by
GBA
(God Bless America!)
To: Flavius
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:46:56 AM PST
by
radar101
(LIBERALS = Hypocrisy and Fantasy)
To: GBA
i really dont know
but now i really have to start trading better to afford one of these things
wonder if one can make it fly on biodiesel
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:47:08 AM PST
by
Flavius
(Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
To: Flavius
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:48:49 AM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If the Romans had nukes, Carthage would still be glowing.)
To: Flavius
seems like a really small market niche. I say it fails due to lack of buyers.
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:49:26 AM PST
by
LC HOGHEAD
("Liberalism is a religion, if not an out and out cult.")
To: Flavius
It's cool, but even the 40 year old F-4 could do mach 2. I suppose making this jet supersonic would make it magnitudes more expensive. I've heard that you can buy surplus MIG's, for that matter.
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:49:27 AM PST
by
Sam Cree
(don't mix alcopops and ufo's - absolute reality)
To: Recon Dad
Now if they put two 25MM cannons and a couple of air to air missiles on board I would consider. Now there's an idea. I can see it now...
"The Javelin. A first-line jet to equip your personal AVG. For when your government is too PC to do the blatantly necessary. Take it for a test flight, and receive a stack of complimentary target maps."
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:49:48 AM PST
by
guitfiddlist
(When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
To: Recon Dad
Can it straife Tehran??? If so I'll take 3!
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posted on
12/17/2006 6:55:35 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
To: Flavius
well...up until now, I couldn't think what I wanted for Christmas...
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:02:40 AM PST
by
Mac1
(=)
To: Flavius
From the 4 photos under the photo of the fighter, I can see they used a lot of stealth technology!
Seriously, they should have built a 3 seater, given the fact that that there's room for 2 golf bags... Pilot, Passenger, and caddie.
Mark
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:08:33 AM PST
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: Flavius
Its an underpowered, under-winged death-trap.
They kept the wings small to get decent speed from those puny engines. That thing will fall like a rock without thrust. There is only enough lifting surface to barely keep it in the air. The wing should twice a large as it is, but then it would probably only do 300kts.
Its junk.
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:21:27 AM PST
by
Pukin Dog
(I will vote for Hillary Clinton for President, before I will vote for John McCain.)
To: Recon Dad
Lot of money to carry 2 golf bags and a buddy I bet Rush has one
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:22:22 AM PST
by
Kewlhand`tek
(When you take things in backwards, everything comes out backwards.---Savage)
To: Flavius
Your photos are gone because you were stealing bandwidth.
You shouldn't hot-link photos from other people's websites.
Download the photos to your hard drive, then upload them to http://tinypic.com and link to them from there. Tinypic is free.
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:28:55 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: GBA
It doesn't seem to be BD-10 derived... I found this info. at
http://www.aerofiles.com/
Peregrine
Peregrine Flight International, Minden NV.
1994 = Continuation of Bede BD-10 with GE J85 as a home-builder kit. A crash in testing killed the president of the company. Acquired by Fox Aircraft of Minden, but its president, too, was killed in a crash. In 1996 Monitor Jet Corp of Canada took over but, despite claim of 12 standing orders, no production was forthcoming. Next? SEE Vortex.
Vortex
1997: Vortex Aircraft Co, San Diego CA on acquisition of rights to Bede assets.
PhoenixJet 1998 = Resurrection of twin-tail Bede BD-10, but redesigned with subsonic wing as a military JPATS primary trainer.
Not a very good record.... I remember Fox Aircraft and the large hangar they had at Minden NV. They had about 5 completed when one crashed due to asymmetric flap deployment, if I remember correctly....
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:32:39 AM PST
by
az_gila
(AZ - need less democrats)
To: Flavius
To: Flavius
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posted on
12/17/2006 7:35:14 AM PST
by
painter
(We celebrate liberty which comes from God not from government.)
To: Flavius
They need to radically redesign aircraft. Eliminate the long nose and look at it from a circular standpoint. You know, like UFOs are.
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