Recent content by Butters

Waynos, I have never argued that the F-35B cannot perform SRVLs, but rather that the SRVL is inherently more dangerous than a true vertical landing (Which is why Harriers make fuel-consuming and 'bring-back 'limiting VLs ...), and that the need for the F-35B to use an inherently more...

What's 'rolling' down the assembly lines and straight into the hangers are expensive things that look like advanced combat planes, but can't fight. In fact, they don't even fly. Kind'a like the A and C SDD jets... BTW, I guess that I'm not gonna be seeing 100 F-35Cs on carrier decks within 5...

Very nice, Catch! Brings back memories of that wonderful big BOOM! BOOM! they'd make when they lit up the burners :D JL

Take a hard look at FBJ's 'argument' and you'll see why I can no more be bothered to continue my 'fight' with him than I can be bothered to fight with the Noah's Ark true believers. As for your assertion that that the SRVL was an original requirement for the JSF, I suggest you re-check your...

I bet this pair of dauntless F-15 drivers are really takin' the pish from the boys after being whacked by a little lady in a Hind :lol: Légiharc gyakorlat, 2008. június - Air Base The translation is a kind'a fuzzy, but the smilin' gal with the two Eagles painted on her trusty Hind sez it...

Well, FBJ, I figger i've got as much experience making vertical jet-powered carrier landings as you have, and thanks to my stints as a commercial fisherman in the '80s, I'm guessing that I know a lot more about how rough it gets in North Atlantic winter gales... As far as calculations about...

The SRVL ( Shipboard Rolling Vertical Landing) technique is being adopted as SOP by both the RN and USMC because the F-35B is too overweight to allow a safe vertical landing while carrying a one ton bomb load. Not to mention avoiding the concentration of 18,000lbs thrust of supersonic, 15-1700...

Just don't leave your Euro jar anywhere that it gets dark or dark may get your Euros! After all, I hear that "Darkness begats dishonesty"... BTW, does anyone have any info regarding the intimate detalls of how, or with who, darkness begats all those little dishonesties? And no, I don't want...

That's what you get for wearing those fun glow-in-the-dark condoms, pal. JL

I was looking thru the DefenceWeek site this AM and saw an article about the Bundswehr testing their Mikado drone in Australia. it seems that they've been using it in Afghanistan, but the hot weather (I presume from last summer) was giving it problems. The Mikado is essentially a four rotor...

In Genesis, God is reported to have said, "Let there be light!". From this we can derive the plausible conclusion that dark somehow arrived 'there' first, and hence further make the plausible and parsimonious inference that it did so because dark is inherently faster than light. As light...

Very cool, and it sounds like the experience is something you'll never forget I'm a diver and swimming with the manatees is something I've wanted to do for a long time also. Your account and pics makes me want to even more. And beautiful pics they are, too. JL

Jealous? I'm not jealous of the fact that US taxpayers have paid $65 BILLION dollars for approx 120 combat-coded fighter jets. As for very low speed manouverability, haven't you heard the Northrop Grumman chief tell the JSF critics that, "manouverability is now irrelevant" in ATA combat? Your...

The main advantage of 2D thrust vectoring is that it allows you to substantially reduce trim drag in the supersonic flight regime. The lo-speed airshow stunt manoeuvers are just that. Lo-speed stunts with little tactical relevance. Still, it's nice that you can get an entertaining show for...

How about the Do 635 Zwilling four-engine fighter? The ultimate piston engine bomber zerstorer...:twisted: JL