Posted on 05/18/2016 7:48:34 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Don’t get me wrong, I totally agree with you. Hell, I was in the largest Phantom squadron (Marine) ever. We had three or four hanger queens we cannibalized often, lol. I wish things were different, But I don’t see us having the quantity of planes we had even during the Vietnam war. And just as the Russians, I’ll take quantity over quality any day. That being said, I don’t ever remember an f-15 being shot down. Maybe there’s more to the f-35 than we know.
FYI, real engineers are very meticulous people. They’ve put in an enormous amount of work and discipline into their field of study, and it shows in how they speak - especially when they’ve been involved with the military. You aren’t anywhere near them - you know nothing about ANY type of engineering, because you display no mental discipline. No aeronautical engineer would speak so casually about his areas of expertise as you claim to do, nor even remotely pretend the ridiculous generalities you do about aircraft design or your - literally - juvenile fantasy about “hypersonics.”
I know engineers, and you’re no engineer - of aircraft or anything else. You’re just a liar and a troll, one of thousands, shameless, conscienceless and in it solely for the few bucks you’re thrown for selling out. You’re probably still in your twenties and ALL of your “experience” comes from computer games. In other words, you’re a child. So please just go away, you’re an embarrassment to yourself AND engineering and you don’t even realize it.
Also some of the pix at that link I posted are of water injection systems...
IIRC the BUFFs newer engines didn’t give off that black smoke...
I have always wondered how much, on any given BUFF, is any ORIGINAL metal. It would be amazing if there was any factory original parts on any flying BUFFS.
There’s one in the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson. I would never fly on that thing. It’s skin is rippled badly, just scary to look at.
You brought it on yourself dude. I was an engineering designer, not an engineer. I had special talents respected by many senior engineers in the past. Things you obviously can’t comprehend. Give it up man, you’re starting to look like a fool here.
“New” Book, Hypersonic Revolution: The Quest for the Orbital Jet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3106539/posts?page=1
You’ve called me a liar and a troll, I don’t expect to here that again. I hope you’re clear on that.
Sorry dude, you still sound like a liar and a troll to me, especially since you’ve added being in the “largest Phantom squadron” while also claiming to know how things were done during the Vietnam War, while also designing two dozen aircraft, becoming a hypersonic something in your spare time and mocking, of all people, Charles Lindbergh’s part in designing the Spirit of St. Louis.
Too many generations, dude. Not enough knowledge, dude. Fake military, dude. That spells liar and troll, dude. WHAT squadron? WHAT MOS? WHAT rank? What stations and years and deployments? How did you fit in “engineering designer that’s not an engineer” school, to what degree that would allow the military to let you get close enough to have “two dozen aircraft” under your belt? What kind of “engineering designer” for aircraft ISN’T an engineer? What’s your professional degree and rating? Where did you go to school?
Bah. Liar and troll, fake military. GET OUT!
This behavior is unacceptable Jim. Please advice on the proper procedures for reporting someone. I was content to let it go, but the response was escalating.
There’s one in the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson. I would never fly on that thing. It’s skin is rippled badly, just scary to look at.
You are correct, but the history of that aircraft is interesting to say the least. It took a series of serious hits over North Vietnam and yet the crew managed to get her home.
69th was my old Squadron. When I flew B-52s, the 69th was out of Loring AFB, Maine. . .
As for environmental effects: JP-4 and Hydraulic fluid spills are considered “environmental effects”. . .
The navigators eject downwards.
They’ve all got rippled skin.
The newest ones are 50+ years old.
Didn't know that. Thanks. Now I'll have nightmares thinking about THAT.
Are we IBTZ?
Chill. You are picking at nits
In an ideal world when bailing-out at low altitudes, the pilot rolls the airplane 90 degrees so everyone bails-out horizontally.
Why not go all the way to 180?
It was humidity that messed up the sensors that controlled the control surfaces.
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