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[Hanwombat]

yup

[darwin dali]

i don't think the C-130 is that boring

well...the AC-130

[bud]

i like this game, maybe it deserves its own thread these aint exactly cars
heres my fave WWII era warbird the F6F Hellcat with the 2 seat Superhornet

[Hanwombat]

I guess you should be thanking me for starting it

[McLaren Fan]

The greatest plane of all time...:

LM SR71:

Close, close, but I'd suggest:

[Hanwombat]

The greatest plane of all time...:

LM SR71:

Close, close, but I'd suggest:

Ah Concorde, all that money

[Gaz]

it was worth it tho, i mean 2hrs to the us compared to 8hrs there's gonna be a demand for that again i just hope the UK is the one to develop it.

as much as i love tornado's

i think the typhoon is a worthy replacment.

[Stealthgate007]

This was a true Stealthgate. I'm pretty sure it was adapted from alien technology. The damn thing is about 50 yrs old and looks like it was made yesterday, similar to F117 and B2. Every time we have a war (which is about every other day) they pull it out of moth-balls to do recon work. I think it can be halfway around the world in a couple hours. West coast to east coast of the United States in about an hour.

[Stealthgate007]

How about this one...




Is that a sukhoi 27?

[bud]

The thing i like about the SR71 is its almost like a living thing its skin leaks fuel while static or at low speed but when its doing its thing at Mach 3 its all held together! And yeah Greg its hard to imagine this machine was designed in the 50's.....

[Selcouth_Feline]

i like this game, maybe it deserves its own thread these aint exactly cars
heres my fave WWII era warbird the F6F Hellcat with the 2 seat Superhornet

The F-18 is my favourite military plane
When I went to the Intrepid Museum last year, I was really disappointed they didn't have an F-18 in as I've never seen one up close (although the A-12 more than made up for it!)

[darwin dali]

How about this one...




Is that a sukhoi 27?

Nope, it's the legendary MIG-29.

[Gaz]

The thing i like about the SR71 is its almost like a living thing its skin leaks fuel while static or at low speed but when its doing its thing at Mach 3 its all held together! And yeah Greg its hard to imagine this machine was designed in the 50's.....

The F18's 1st flight was in 1978 it was designed in the 70's cold war speeded everything up i guess now its over there's no need.

Obviously there's the newer super-hornet but its prob going to be replaced slowly by the F-35

[Hanwombat]

it was worth it tho, i mean 2hrs to the us compared to 8hrs there's gonna be a demand for that again i just hope the UK is the one to develop it.

as much as i love tornado's

i think the typhoon is a worthy replacment.

The typhoon is a stunner, smooth and sleak

[darwin dali]

The Typhoon's combat performance compared to the new F-22 Raptor and the upcoming F-35 Lightning II fighters being developed in the United States and the Dassault Rafale developed in France, has been the subject of much discussion.

In March 2005, United States Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. Jumper, then the only person to have flown both the Eurofighter Typhoon and the Raptor, talked to Air Force Print News about these two aircraft. He said,
“The Eurofighter is both agile and sophisticated, but is still difficult to compare to the F/A-22 Raptor. They are different kinds of airplanes to start with; it's like asking us to compare a NASCAR car with a Formula 1 car. They are both exciting in different ways, but they are designed for different levels of performance."

Further, "The Eurofighter is certainly, as far as smoothness of controls and the ability to pull (and sustain high g forces), very impressive," he said. "That is what it was designed to do, especially the version I flew, with the avionics, the color moving map displays, etc. — all absolutely top notch. The maneuverability of the airplane in close-in combat was also very impressive."

The Typhoon is capable of supersonic cruise without using afterburner. This is referred to as "supercruise". According to the official German Luftwaffe and Austrian Eurofighter website, the maximum speed possible without reheat is between Mach 1.2 and Mach 1.5. Air Forces Monthly gives a maximum supercruise speed of Mach 1.1 for the RAF FGR4 multirole version.

The Eurofighter consortium claims their fighter has a larger sustained subsonic turn rate, sustained supersonic turn rate, and faster acceleration at Mach 0.9 at 20,000 feet (6,100 m) than the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, Mirage 2000, Rafale, the Su-27, and the MiG-29.

In 2005, a trainer Eurofighter T1 was reported to have had a chance encounter the previous year with two U.S. Air Force F-15Es over the Lake District in the north of England. The encounter became a mock dogfight with the Eurofighter allegedly emerging victorious.

In the 2005 Singapore evaluation, the Typhoon won all three combat tests, including one in which a single Typhoon defeated three RSAF F-16s, and reliably completed all planned flight tests. Singapore still went on to buy the F-15 due to uncertainty over Typhoon tranche 2 delivery dates.

During the exercise "Typhoon Meet" held in 2008, Eurofighters flew against F/A-18 Hornets, Mirage F1s, Harriers and F-16s in a mock combat exercise. It is claimed that the Eurofighters won all engagements (even outnumbered 8 vs 27) without suffering losses.

The aviation magazine "Flug Revue" reports that in 2008 German Typhoon were pitted against French Rafales. The results are said to be "extremely gratifying" for the Typhoon based on the "much greater thrust of the EJ200 engine".