Yea, great picture. Our current enemies have no jets. How many gazillion did this picture cost? Universal health care is too expensive. No debt in the Bush years.
Hit up youtube for "breaking sound barrier" and such. Loads of videos cooler than that photo last I checked, usually on special "fly-by" days on carriers.
@Steffi: Though it's been explained, I have to chime in as fluid dynamics was my favorite subject in school. What you're seeing is water coming out of solution, a novel concept for the uninitiated.
The "Humidity" you always hear about means the nothing more than the relative amount of water per unit volume of air. Water is naturally soluble in air, and its status as a soluable is dependent on temperature, pressure, and volume. Vary any of the three the appropriate way and the water in the solution may condense.
When a plane passes through the air, it introduces a substantial variation in local pressure, especially at the wing tips. The drop in pressure yields conditions which result in the water coming out of solution, resulting in localized "fog," thus the contrails at the wingtips.
When the plane goes supersonic, it introduces a much more complex phenomenon commonly known as a shock wave, wherein the planes physical surface creates a conical pressure wave which depressurizes the air around it, creating the same localized "fog."
@elwood: It's highly dependent on the competence of the professor. There's no logic in counting courses at Kettering including fluid dynamics, differential equations, mechatronics, material science, circuits, finite element analysis and thermodynamics as favorite subjects while multivariate calculus, circuits lab, organic chem, and dynamic systems analysis 2 are horror shows of sanctioned cribbing and guessing.
I appreciate your point, but this situation didn't justify arguing it. There was no "reporter" here. The video is simply an alleged T-38's gunnery footage. There was no "imagined bias" other than our (the readers') own.
The F-22 is a ridiculous boondoggle, redesigned so many times that it's now almost bomber sized. As such, it has the requisite lack of maneuverability - it's hardly surprising that the nimble T-38 could take one down. Considering the only "combat" tests the F-22's have undergone have pretty much been rigged not to showcase these vulnerabilities (in order to keep the budget numbers up) - perhaps with a new administration we can finally kill this money pit. I'm not exactly hopeful, however.
You have a couple things going on here. The F22 is not designed for air combat. It is designed to have superior weapons and electronics so that a kill can be made before the pilot even sees the other plane. This strategy is obviously better than letting another plane to get into a position where they have the potential to kill you. As such, the F22 pilots may not be the most well-trained when it comes to air-to-air combat.
Along with that, the T-38 pilot is probably really good. If he was a trainer for Red Flag, then he is probably one of the best air-to-air combat pilots in the US Air Force.
I wonder if they handicapped the F22 at all...like not allow him any simulated long-range weapons?
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The "Humidity" you always hear about means the nothing more than the relative amount of water per unit volume of air. Water is naturally soluble in air, and its status as a soluable is dependent on temperature, pressure, and volume. Vary any of the three the appropriate way and the water in the solution may condense.
When a plane passes through the air, it introduces a substantial variation in local pressure, especially at the wing tips. The drop in pressure yields conditions which result in the water coming out of solution, resulting in localized "fog," thus the contrails at the wingtips.
When the plane goes supersonic, it introduces a much more complex phenomenon commonly known as a shock wave, wherein the planes physical surface creates a conical pressure wave which depressurizes the air around it, creating the same localized "fog."
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I appreciate your point, but this situation didn't justify arguing it. There was no "reporter" here. The video is simply an alleged T-38's gunnery footage. There was no "imagined bias" other than our (the readers') own.
Plus, you keep spelling "T-38" wrong..
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Swiss F-5 fighter taxiing through a village between runway and cavern bunker at the reserve airfield Turtmann:
Source: [defense-and-freedom.blogspot.com]
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Along with that, the T-38 pilot is probably really good. If he was a trainer for Red Flag, then he is probably one of the best air-to-air combat pilots in the US Air Force.
I wonder if they handicapped the F22 at all...like not allow him any simulated long-range weapons?
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[www.theatlantic.com]
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I heard she has been in a car, so it probably qualifies for coverage much in the same way that these fighter pilots have also been in a car.
j/k Pretty cool story.