Your favorite post-war aircraft

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F-14a Tomcat

Eurofighter Typhoon

ok,.. i know its asked for the aircraft.. but i just cant choose

but if i was allowed to fly a plane.. ill be a F-14, with a carrier take-off
 
Nonskimmer said:
They're both cool shots. Those guys had better watch it. Those gulls are comin' to poop on their plane.
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i think i'll get rid of the poop when its at mach 2 (and otherwise.. youll have some "nice " stripes on your plane ^^
 
Nope they could reach between 2.2 and 2.5 depending on the version. The F-18 Hornet can only reach about 1.8, well the earlier versions that is. I dont know about the F-18E.
 
DerAdlerIstGelandet said:
Nope they could reach between 2.2 and 2.5 depending on the version. The F-18 Hornet can only reach about 1.8, well the earlier versions that is. I dont know about the F-18E.
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Is the F-18E supersonic? I read that its engines are non-afterburning.
 
The F-22's engines are non-afterburning too, but it's supersonic. The same probably holds true for the Super Hornet. I'll have to look that up when I get home just to be sure. It would only seem to make sense since it's still a multi-role strike fighter.
 
The F414-GE-400 engines of the F-18E and F's are afterburning after all, but according to at least one source the Super Hornet can't exceed mach 1.0 in level flight below 10,000 feet in full burner! Even with no stores! It would seem that it's been encountering various teething problems.

"An F/A-18E/F in maximum afterburner thrust cannot exceed Mach 1.0 in level flight below 10,000 feet even when it is in the clean configuration (no external stores). "

From:
http://www.flightjournal.com/articles/f14f18/f14f18_2.asp
 
I thought the F-22 was after-burning, however it can reach Mach 1 without putting them on - it's called "supercruise".
 
Pretty expensive though. At $63 billion for the F-22 program and last I heard they were building only 300 of them, that works out to over $200 million per aircraft.
 
Post War to Nam? Is that what you are asking for JCS?

Where to start?...
F-86E and the Dog ship too
MiG-17 and 19
F-100
F-102 and F-106
B-36
B-47
B-58
C-133
Mirage III (Anyone else here old enough to remember watching the '67 Six Day War on TV? I remember seeing a Mirage III spinning down in flames and impacting on a valley floor. I don't think the the pilot made it out. It sent chills down my spine.)
Saab 29
A-6
A-1
F2H
F4D Skyray
F4D Phantom II
and on and on and on...
 
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