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To: maddog55

The plane is too fat looking. No Aircraft this out of proportion will ever work.


8 posted on 04/02/2018 3:57:03 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

It is heavier than the twin engined F-15C Eagle, in part because a single engine has weight increase by the cube of the diameter. 2 smaller engines is lighter and more powerful as a result. Irony that the Chinese copy has 2 engines. Also the Navy prefers 2 engines.

So heavier than F-15C, smaller wing and 25% less thrust. I am not sure how if flies at all. The lifting body effect would have been better with 2 engines and the aerodynamics too, allowing it to supercruise.

Imo they failed to apply some basic fundamentals thinking computers could somehow use electronic thelepathy to make it work. I sure hope so


24 posted on 04/02/2018 4:52:23 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucifiedc)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
The plane is too fat looking. No Aircraft this out of proportion will ever work.

Uh, that's a dumb thing to say...the F117 didn't even look like an aerodynamic body...

41 posted on 04/02/2018 6:10:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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