He must of got too much flak for pulling a circus stunt
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Airforce Gear vs Navy Gear.
The F-15Es Gear would buckle on impact,
Shoot look at how easy the F-35Bs Gear collapses in the hover crash video.
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taubkin
December 20, 2022, 7:27pm
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I can only imagine the comment section…
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I saw the thumbnail and wondered WTH! I can only imagine the flack the op got that prompted removal of the video.
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ST0RM
December 20, 2022, 9:17pm
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Its amazing how stupid people are that think just because it has a hook, “it must be carrier capable”.
Even worse at airshows.
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Gotta love that reversed LERX Vapours…
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Do they really need to hype it any more? Jezz, this is causing atrial fibrillation.
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No such thing as too much Strike Eagle hype.
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damson
December 27, 2022, 12:15pm
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Eh, I’m tired of waiting… time to fire up the unbeaten Mudhen Simulator.
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WarPig
December 28, 2022, 11:50pm
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I for one love the ‘Navalized Hypotheticals’. Off the top of my head, all of my favorite fighters have had proposed naval variants, most of which never left the drawing board (for good reason), but all of which make me wonder ‘What if?’.
On 15 November 1944, naval aviator (and later test pilot) Lieutenant Bob Elder, in a P-51D-5-NA 44-14017, started flight tests from the deck of the carrier Shangri-La. This Mustang had been fitted with an arrestor hook, which was attached to a...
The Vought/General Dynamics Model 1600 series was a fighter aircraft proposal designed for the United States Navy's Navy Air Combat Fighter (NACF) program. The Model 1600 was a carrier-based derivative of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, but lost to the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.
Following the YF-16's victory over the Northrop YF-17 for the U.S. Air Force's ACF competition, General Dynamics decided a navalized variant could also best it in the Navy's Navy Air Combat Figh...
The F-14 Tomcat may be a legendary fighter that got the Hollywood treatment in 1986's "Top Gun," but for a short time in the 1970s, the Navy considered
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That will be interesting. Not a surprise that it wont make Early Access 15E as the 15E isn’t that dependent on the backseater, Seen many 15Es taxi out with empty backseats, Granted it was training missions but still feasible.
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Yeah they fly single seat a lot out of lakenheath uk as well. Seen that a great many times while observing
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