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 Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 05:50 AM
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http://www.f-16.net/fleet-reports_article3.html
Looking at this chart it is incredible the number of F-16's that have been lost due to attrition. Obviously, when the F-16 came about there was so much new technology for the people involved with this aircraft to get used to. I would assume the same thing happened when the air force started converting over to jets from props after WW2.
Anyone one have any idea what the attrition rates were back then. And if so was any particular aircraft worse than others???? |
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Posted: Sep 20, 2011 - 10:16 PM
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| That chart may look incredible to you; but, keep in mind that the USAF attritions span many millions of flight hours since 1979. The F-16 is considered the USAF's safest single engine multirole fighter. If you want to look at historical information on early jets (F-80, F-84, F-86, F-100, F-104, etc), spend some time reading the RAND report at http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM4840.pdf and look at Figures 1 and 2. I think you'll see attrition rates in those days were much higher. As an example, Fig 1 shows that there were 325 F-86 losses before it accumulated 700,000 flight hours. |
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edpop
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Posted: Sep 21, 2011 - 05:42 AM
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Thanks for the info.. I will check out that report!
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