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[TomcatViP]

Just a nice extract of a video showing two of the most appreciated planes in UK.

Interesting too if you look closely.

Enjoy !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agzFJ...eature=related

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by TomcatViP

Just a nice extract of a video showing two of the most appreciated planes in UK.

Interesting too if you look closely.

Enjoy !

Unfortunately I don't appreciate the Eurofighter, being an English taxpayer !!

Biggest waste of tax payers money a complete flop. IMHO

[TomcatViP]

+1

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Unfortunately I don't appreciate the Eurofighter, being an English taxpayer !!

Biggest waste of tax payers money a complete flop. IMHO

...are you serious?

You're not one of the "EE Lightning Nostalgia Group" by any chance, are you?

I frankly find quite outstanding the fact that the Eurofighter can turn inside a Spit at the same speed!

[JG53Frankyboy]

well, in some years they can waste their money in the Lightning II .
Or hows about the QE carriers

[Bewolf]

Given that Messerschmitt is hiding somewhere within EADS (that's also why you see so many EADS sponsored Messerschmitts) I consider this Vid kinda ironic. If I were the pilot of the EF I'd be hard pressed not to pull the trigger. Completly understand KG26_Alpha's attitude here

[Sternjaeger II]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

Given that Messerschmitt is hiding somewhere within EADS (that's also why you see so many EADS sponsored Messerschmitts) I consider this Vid kinda ironic. If I were the pilot of the EF I'd be hard pressed not to pull the trigger. Completly understand KG26_Alpha's attitude here

one of my best mates is an ITAF pilot an is completing his syllabus on the EF: he said (and I quote) "it's an outstanding machine, you go from 200kts to 450 in roughly 5 secs and can turn around a pole! The flaws are distinctively British though!".

There seems to be a somehow unorthodox approach in British aircraft design: another good friend of mine is a Canadian Air Force pilot and flew with the Hawk when e still was a cadet and I remember him saying "the first impression when you sit inside the Hawk is that someone puked the instruments all over the cockpit" lol

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

There seems to be a somehow unorthodox approach in British aircraft design: another good friend of mine is a Canadian Air Force pilot and flew with the Hawk when e still was a cadet and I remember him saying "the first impression when you sit inside the Hawk is that someone puked the instruments all over the cockpit" lol

hehe, some traditions die hard

[swiss]

The EF would have been an awesome plane - if it was out in the 90s...
Let's sum it up:

- it's over 10 years late
- has no stealth capabilities
- way too expensive
- it's 2011, yet there's still no thrust vectoring

This plane is friggin joke. On the other hand, it's the perfect weapon to scare the crap out of some 3rd world countries...
Too bad the "Allied" didn't lose any over Libya.

Rumor has it it came out as the favorite of the swiss airforce, they evaluated the EF, Rafale and Grippen.
Should that prove to be true, for the time in my life I'll join the lefties and vote it down.

[KG26_Alpha]

No matter what role it dresses up in, EADS, SEADS, CASCOM, IRST or DASS its still a flop as a multi role ac compared to its contemporaries.

It was purely an exercise in how much tax payers money can be wasted on an obsolete ac design.

Too many fingers were allowed into this pie, it took too long to develop and went way over its budget, result out of date over priced ac.

Turning with a Spit proves what ?

It can turn with a Spit in a high Speed turn ...yippee

You wont see this ac in such combat manoeuvres.

Of course IMHO



Edit:
Woops just seen swiss's post same thoughts as mine.