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 Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 03:41 AM
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I am a student from University of Adelaide (Australia), currently working on a assignment that involves the F-16 Fighter Falcon.
The assignment requires me to research on the nose aspect area of the F-16, but I had been searching through the websites for weeks, still couldn't find any information regarding the nose dimension of F-16, until I found this forum that specialized in F-16.
I think everyone might be expert in F-16 parts, therefore it will be great if you could help me out in this matter, by telling me the specific dimension values of the F-16 nose area.
Thank you very much!! |
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Gums
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Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 04:13 AM
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Salute!
Can't believe you cannot find a three view of the Viper that could be used to determine the frontal area. Of course, it would vary with the loadout.
Therefore, we can go with war stories and heresay.
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Frontal area about like a big T-38, maybe an F-86. That's the visual area.
RCS could range from a large turkey to a Suburban SUV, depending on loadout.
Later models have a smaller RCS than the ones I flew in early eighties.
Then there's the cloaking device we got with the Block 50's and later. So al bets are off WRT frontal area on bad guy radar.
Hope that helps.
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maou
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Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 05:35 AM
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Thank you very much for the reply.
I did managed to find few of Viper's 3 views before my first post, I'm just not very sure what does the (NAA) Nose Aspect Area means. All along I thought NAA is the nose cone dimension of Viper.
So the RCS (Radar Cross Section) is NAA?
Sorry, I'm a novice for Aviation. |
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Guysmiley
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Posted: Sep 17, 2008 - 05:23 PM
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Sounds like something you should clarify with your professor or TA.
I would ASSUME that it would the the nose-on cross section of the aircraft, but like Gums said, that really depends on what you're hauling, clean with no pylons is much different than a full loadout with tanks, bombs, missiles and pods (oh my). |
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Posted: Sep 18, 2008 - 05:14 PM
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| Folks are right, you should clarify the meaning of the term (which I never heard before). |
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