And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I know the Raptor has a complicated FLCS but am having a hard time figuring this one, as it is in a turn, yet the stabs aren't deflected and the nozzles aren't set in such a way that it would be using thrust vectoring.
It takes less elevator deflection than you'd think to turn. It's one thing animated movies routinely get wrong. If you're at speed, it's a very small, nearly unnoticeable deflection. Higher deflections are for landing, taxiing a tailwheel airplane, and other slow-speed things.
Also, it appears that he may have yanked on the stick to establish a high AOA, and then gone back to neutral, and what you're seeing is the delay as that (massive) jet brings its nose up in response to the original command. Watch any Raptor demo and you'll see what I mean.
I was at a Red Flag exercise at Eglin AFB in seventies. Right around dusk an F-15 stood itself on it's tail and kicked in the afterburners and went ballistic. Lit up half the sky. By the count of four it was gone.
looks like a humid day.
ReplyDeleteI know the Raptor has a complicated FLCS but am having a hard time figuring this one, as it is in a turn, yet the stabs aren't deflected and the nozzles aren't set in such a way that it would be using thrust vectoring.
ReplyDeleteIt takes less elevator deflection than you'd think to turn. It's one thing animated movies routinely get wrong. If you're at speed, it's a very small, nearly unnoticeable deflection. Higher deflections are for landing, taxiing a tailwheel airplane, and other slow-speed things.
DeleteAlso, it appears that he may have yanked on the stick to establish a high AOA, and then gone back to neutral, and what you're seeing is the delay as that (massive) jet brings its nose up in response to the original command. Watch any Raptor demo and you'll see what I mean.
DeleteDamn chem trails are everywhere.
ReplyDeleteEver seen one stand it's tail and hover?
ReplyDeleteI was at a Red Flag exercise at Eglin AFB in seventies. Right around dusk an F-15 stood itself on it's tail and kicked in the afterburners and went ballistic. Lit up half the sky. By the count of four it was gone.
DeleteIt isn't flying, it's tearing a hole in the air.
ReplyDeleteAh, thermodynamics.
ReplyDeleteThat's the second-best 5th-gen fighter we ever built.
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