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    It is best if you just watch and not question Spanner, your sanity will thank you...........but if you must know it was sweaty Japanese men in rubber suits fighting each other while being attacked by scale model aircraft. Thank god for Joel and the Bots!
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    Yeah the AIM 9X has been operational with the USAF since 2003. Here is an article explaining the F-22/AIM 9X debacle. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-its-sad-that-the-f-22-just-fired-its-first-guided-a-1704889474 Gerli you are right on with the similarities. It is really scary how close some fiction is to real life!
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    It was just matter of refinement for it from prototype to operational aircraft. What is sad is that both administrations were told that the larger the production the cheaper the aircraft would become. Gates wanted drones (thousands of them from what we heard), he disliked fighter pilots and was able to accomplish 2 goals with the F-22 debacle. He took down the USAF fighter "mafia" which had reigned over the AF as the Chiefs of Staff for almost 40 yrs by forcing Meyer's to resign. He then squashed the F-22 program under the premise that drones could accomplish a lot of the same missions cheaper. It shows what happens when politics and personal issues involved in multi-billion dollar program defense program.
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    A bit of interesting reading on the F-22. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/everyone-who-wanted-more-f-22s-is-being-proven-right-1732105884
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    They are being built in such a small number (160 aircraft). The producers of the movies probably didn't even know they were being made or even used by the Marines since every time you see a US military attack helicopter or transport helicopter it is either an Apache or a Blackhawk due tho the sheer number of them in service.
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    That one is my all time favorite from MST3K. Crow: "Is it ethical to take a little kid on a dangerous mission?" Servo: "Not this kid!" Dynaman is right on that one, it is a must see!
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    Spanner if you laughed that hard at the credits (I did also by the way). You should look it up on youtube and watch that episode of MST3K. The first time i watched it I was ROFLMAO. It is well worth the time. If by some chance you ever get to see any of the Godzilla movies they lampooned then do it. They are hard to find because the current owner of the rights to the old Godzilla movies got pissed with them for what they did in lampooning them.
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    In Soviet thinking it was...."Eh it was only one MIG and a dozen missiles...but we got that damn capitalist spyplane".
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    Well no worse than the B-1 missile platform. Same concept just the B-1 was a bit larger. I think the missile massacre would look a bit like this:
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    I like it. But I myself have cared for the JASDF blue camo pattern they put on the F-2. I know it is used as a maritime strike aircraft but it is the only one painted blue. But this is just my personal preference. I do like the design you have made. I have a buddy who started a model combining a 48 scale F-16 and F-18. It was actually a very elegant design. I don't think he ever finished it. He got as far as blending the wings and the fuselage of both.
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    Actually with the way the newer RCS reduction paints are. I think they can make the colors needed for the Israeli's AF camo pattern. The current Have Glass being used can be made in different colors to suit the customers needs. That would be an awesome site to see. That many Hurricanes and Spits flying over once more. One of the things I like about the Brits. They relish their history so much. They are damn proud to express it too.
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    The engine would continue running but the pilots would normally burn off their fuel and land. The engine had to be re-trimmed after it happened. The wierd thing was that it only occurred in the engine whne it was set at peace time ratings. In DS the Blk 25 units over here had the engines set to wartime settings. They never had one blowout. As soon as they got back to their home bases and reset them to peace time settings the engines started blowing out. The 220E program was the fix for the maintenance and high costs issues that they ran into with the F-100-200 in the F-16. The engines were upgraded to F-100-220's through component replacement. After I left Egllin and went to Misawa the only place I ever crewed jets with PW engines again was Edwards. I Ended up being the last USAF crew chief there at teh time qualified to run the 200 engine since we had moved all our other 200 equipped birds other than a foreign B model over to the civilian side. Doing a Back Up Controller check on that engine was irritating. It required a quite a bit of hand movement in the cockpit compared to the SEC check on the 220 and GE 110-100. The afterburner response was also slower when compared to the GE especially.
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    Don't get me started on ole' Dick with a capital D. I saw first hand the results of Heliburtons actions. Hell I am living with it now. The PW F-100 had its issues also. In the F-16 as the F-100-200 when it was trimmed down to non wartime settings it had a nasty tendency to have AB blow outs on takeoff. On the F-15 I do remember quite a few IFE's at Eglin where one engine was stuck in AB, I never did inquire as to the cause since I was an F-16 Crew Chief and we referred to Eagles as split tail drones. I did several engine trims on them as a young Airman at Eglin ( that was a pain in the ass needless to say). But it was still more reliable than the TF 30 and it didn't compressor stall very easily. The D model Tomcat should have been put into full production but alas the powers that be decided to screw around and only limit its production and mod the remaining Tomcats.
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    Got to see a D model Tomcat perform an air demo at MacDill AFB just before I graduated HS. It was the most impressive flight display I have ever seen, those twin GE 110-400's pushed that frame like it was nothing. The Osprey initially used titanium hydraulic lines also. They are a serious pain in the ass to install since most lines are swedged while temp installed to ensure proper length and fit and titanium is not known for its flexibility. I heard about that one line on the Tomcat. You would think they would have learned from that problem. The one downside to the F-14A was the TF 30 engine. That engine was horrible. Quite a few Tomcat pilots were known to have said that on landing they were almost literally flying the engine since it was prone to compressor stalls. Luckily someone had the vision to mount the GE 110 series engine in it. She was a pretty bird. I always liked the way they looked just sitting on the ramp. I was saddened as anyone to see them get retired but then scrapping them over concerns about spare parts for the Iranian aircraft. How in the hell would anyone smuggle parts out of AMARG is beyond me and then the fact that any request for parts is only going to come from one source now would negate any security risk seeing how the Iranians are the only ones flying them. To me it is as disrespectful as the USN scrapping the USS Enterprise (the WWII Grey Ghost) after WWII.
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    When I was stationed at Edwards I had an assistant crew chief assigned to my jet who was prior Navy. He had been a plane captain on both Tomcats and Hornets. He told me the hydraulic system on the Tomcat was a nightmare. I know most of the F-14's I ever witnessed IFE in, landed for hydraulic failure. man hours was one of the reasons it was finally retired also. On F-16's the system maintenance varies. A lot depends on the aircraft itself too. Believe it or not these frames have personalities of their own. Some tend to break for hydraulics more while others have flight control issues or ECS problems. The engines are pretty damn reliable aside from the occasional popped delta P indicator on the filter bowls. Fuel leaks though tend to crop up across the board on most jets. Most are pretty easy for the fuel shop or the crew chief to fix ( generally just tightening a screw on a panel). As for the gear swiveling on the VF-1. I bet the artist went back and looked at the design and figured out the way the gear would have to move in order to retract and maintain clearance in the landing gear bay.
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    Here you go this is the final stage of pulling the GE engine from out of an F-16. This is a block 30 from the Texas ANG. Normally though a tripod jack is installed under the nose to keep the frame from shifting as they talk about in the video.
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    That jet has evolved so much from the block 5 in the video that the newest blocks are almost a different animal.Those early blocks had the "small tail" stabs. I worked one of the last ones in the inventory with that tail. The A model also had no standby generator on it and the cockpit as you could see had a different configuration. The flight control self test used to take about 3-5 minutes compared to about 1 min now. Actually in another thread someone asked about what the VF-1 was doing in the opening clip for the DYRL video game when its flight controls and engines were moving around at 0:48. More than likely it was a flight control self test. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0P5e3Qt2lM
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    Typical they have been pulling this crap again now since 07 or so. I know back in 08-09 the F-22's at Elmendorf AFB started flying with wing tanks for interception duty. Apparently on a scramble to intercept a Russian bomber the F-22's hit bingo before they could intrercept it. A KC-135 from the Alaska ANG had to intercept it since it was the only plane available in flight at the time and within range. I know someone is saying that is BS but this is absolutely true. After that the F-22's on alert had to be equipped with their 600 gal tanks. I saw the jets over flying Eielson on several occasions.
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    LOL that is one of the best ones they ever did. I love the end when the movie credits are rolling and they blame Mike for the 80's and the how bad the film was............. Dynaman is absolutely correct. The MST3K version is the only way this movie is even watchable.
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    They aren't that bad drag wise and they are very easy to remove, plus we rarely ever have problems out of them. I like your model of 3080. That is one of the jets they use for demos. Its paint actually looks good still. For normal local flying they only use a centerline tank and conformals. The 370's are used mainly for real world deployment. With the centerline and conformals the E model holds the same amount of fuel as a normal F-16C with two 370's. We also like them the conformals because it makes getting on top of the F model for inspections/maintenance extremely easy.
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    This what it looked like when the paint was new. I don't know myself how they kept it toned down. But now between the absorbency of the paint, the intense heat from the desert here and the combination of both engine/ECS exhaust heat the paint is peeling in certain areas like pieces of leather. Amazingly though even with all the grease and oil on it the paint still works very in reducing the RCS.
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    A camo pattern on the F-35 would be wasted due to the nature of the Have Glass paint and radar absorbent materials. They soak up grease and oil like a sponge. The Block 60 F-16's look like horrible blackish grey airplanes now. You can barely tell there is a camo pattern.
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    The Hornet looks good, but I prefer the flatter tone on the Typhoon.
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