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Abosolutly! Back before aviation got to be horifficly complicated. The good old days of simple intermints and paper charts. That was truly a golden age for aviation. Now day you can't even get near a cockpit with out a pilot pulling out his Ipad with the foreflight app on it....
Same here. I sometimes worry that an in-flight emergency would take out the computers leaving a modern pilot at the controls of a flying brick that he/she can’t control. Outside of a few of the older jet fighters the modern fighters can fly if the computer goes. Hell the lighting can even fly within 12 miles of a lighting storm without risking flight computer loss and crash.
*shakes head*
*shakes head*
*laughs... the F-35 does not impress me (no offense meant) and I too worry about all these modern aircraft without manual reversion. I was on a B737 once as the flight mechanic and we took a tremendous strike on the right wing. I woke up/saw the strike/and heard the thunder all in the same moment. I actually thought the RH engine had blown up; but there it was still ticking right along. The only thing that happened to us was the TO's flight instruments going loopy for a bit - then it shook it off like a punch drunk boxer. No damage to the wing at all, though you could tell where it had struck.
As to the Lightning - I was watching a show about the F-16 and the aircraft's designer was talking about the F-35 and how they wanted it to do a dog fight with the aircraft it was replacing - and the F-16 ate its lunch.
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As to the Lightning - I was watching a show about the F-16 and the aircraft's designer was talking about the F-35 and how they wanted it to do a dog fight with the aircraft it was replacing - and the F-16 ate its lunch.
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Yes it very much did eat its lunch! and took it's milk money too..... LOL.
WOW about the lightning strike. I have had a few hard landings in helos and one in a fixed wing. My buddy once tried to kill me in his C172 on a night landing. The local airports here are not controlled, and one night the runway lights were out. He made the call to dedicate to it anyway. He hit really hard.... If I remember it correctly he broke something on th plane but did not want to say what. There was a lot of swearing though. About two weeks after that he put his crop duster down into a fence after an engine issue.
WOW about the lightning strike. I have had a few hard landings in helos and one in a fixed wing. My buddy once tried to kill me in his C172 on a night landing. The local airports here are not controlled, and one night the runway lights were out. He made the call to dedicate to it anyway. He hit really hard.... If I remember it correctly he broke something on th plane but did not want to say what. There was a lot of swearing though. About two weeks after that he put his crop duster down into a fence after an engine issue.
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