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Originally Posted by JtD
The chart Kurfürst posted is not a theory, it's a calculation. Physics and maths are just as relevant as tests and pilot experience. There are methods that are standard and accepted. If you use them properly, they can be more accurate than tests and pilot experience and are imho at least as valid.
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This is the sort of thing that raises my doubts. I am confident that the Grippen had many thosands of calculations undertaken by some of the finest minds in aviation. Using the latest computers, many hours in a simulator and then this happened. I should add that this was being flown by a test pilot.
Show me any report of any 262 pilots who would go into a turning dogfight against a Mustang, Spit, La 7, whatever take your pick. The theoretical world is one thing, hard combat another.
Look at it another way, Why did the Mig 17 do so well against the F4, F105 and so on. Find any US pilot who would go into a turning combat in any of the above against an old slow Mig 17.
09-27-2012, 01:55 PM
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