F-35 and Airshows

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 14 Oct 2018, 18:41

Great colour illustrations: https://www.docdroid.net/Bifx6Fg/f-16ab ... -guide.pdf (4Mb)

"A copy of the Lockheed Martin Midlife Update #M1 Pilot’s Guide, 16PR14341, for the F-16A/B aircraft. Covers new capabilities and cockpit enhancements. Dated 15 November 1998."

playloud · by **playloud** » 15 Oct 2018, 03:19

Apologies for the focus problems after the first pass. I took this with my phone.

ricnunes · by **ricnunes** » 15 Oct 2018, 11:33

Nice video there playloud, thanks for sharing it! :thumb:

mor10 · by **mor10** » 15 Oct 2018, 16:24

Darn! I was in the area, but according to the website the F-35 would only do the heritage flight, so I decided to get an early start on my 5 hour drive back to Galveston instead of going to the airshow.

playloud · by **playloud** » 15 Oct 2018, 18:10

lamoey wrote:Darn! I was in the area, but according to the website the F-35 would only do the heritage flight, so I decided to get an early start on my 5 hour drive back to Galveston instead of going to the airshow.

Yeah, they had the F-35 do a couple passes before the heritage flight, and then a couple after. It wasn't a full demo.

wrightwing · by **wrightwing** » 16 Oct 2018, 05:28

Hopefully, they'll start putting the power loop into a 360 deg pedal turn, back into the demos, along with square loops and minimum radius turns.

gta4 · by **gta4** » 16 Oct 2018, 07:40

wrightwing wrote:Hopefully, they'll start putting the power loop into a 360 deg pedal turn, back into the demos, along with square loops and minimum radius turns.

Yes power loop is my personal favorate. F35 is the firstt non tvc jet that performs this maneuver.

geforcerfx · by **geforcerfx** » 17 Oct 2018, 06:21

S'more from Ft. Worth

playloud · by **playloud** » 17 Oct 2018, 14:29

Very nice! We must have been standing pretty close to each other :-)

gta4 · by **gta4** » 17 Oct 2018, 14:44

F-35 was designed with this maneuver in mind, because LM thinks this will make F-35 a "formidable foe":

: F-35 turn and climb small.gif (719.39 KiB) Viewed 76007 times

steve2267 · by **steve2267** » 17 Oct 2018, 15:02

There was probably a reason why someone wanted the F-16 and F/A-18 rolled into one...

spazsinbad · by **spazsinbad** » 17 Oct 2018, 19:12

CIRCLE FLOW? Every thing old is new again: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27186&p=300093&hilit=circle+flow#p300093

SpudmanWP · by **SpudmanWP** » 17 Oct 2018, 19:58

Combine that with continuous enemy tracking via EODAS & the ability to attack with a HOBS missile and the F-35 should be able to get a shot off LONG before it's nose "on the enemy".

lbk000 · by **lbk000** » 18 Oct 2018, 22:35

This is a backwards, revisionist perspective on things. Nose authority and its role in the merge was appreciated long before the F-35 was even pitched.

sferrin · by **sferrin** » 19 Oct 2018, 03:03

lbk000 wrote:This is a backwards, revisionist perspective on things. Nose authority and its role in the merge was appreciated long before the F-35 was even pitched.

Did somebody say that it wasn't?