Friday, June 28, 2024

Pointy and Dangerous

 


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  1. Dangerous to the enemy, and to its pilots.

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    1. Uninitiated pilots that is…

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    2. US Air Force needed a trainer suitable to prepare pilots for the F-104. We got the T-38. Fast, little stubby wings, and hard to land. The F-104s are long gone, but the T-38s are still with us, frustrating pilot trainees who go on to much easier airplanes like the F-16.
      ~ Doctor Weasel

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  2. Banking with intent to turn

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  3. The royal flush photo. The first five CF-104s lined up in sequence: 701 to 705.

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  4. Back when Canada was a serious country...

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  5. Those were the days, my friends.....
    Mike in Canada

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  6. Little Canadian boys from the 50’s still dream of what could have been with the Avro Arrow. Sigh

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  7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_CF-105_Arrow

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    1. Wow! What a missed opportunity!

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    2. Yes indeed, as were the F108 Rapier and the BAC TSR2

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  8. Made sense for Canada to have it, as it's design was for bomber interceptions. Worthless as a fighter. Easy to suffer a high speed stall in the typical air combat speeds of sub- Mach. SOP was to punch out if below 10k agl in that case. Spent time chatting with a Canadian F104 pilot at an airshow at NA Moffett in the early 80's. He loved the plane, and had been flying it for a long time. I was surprised he got it into that strip.

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