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Post by shadowgunner on Oct 16, 2012 15:25:11 GMT 9
FSX movie, but still fun to watch. The author did a lot of work on this.
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Oct 17, 2012 3:43:57 GMT 9
Great depiction of everyday ADC work.
I wonder why the artists had one Six with tanks and the other none???
Jim Too
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Post by shadowgunner on Oct 17, 2012 9:57:16 GMT 9
that was the only way he was able to get 2 sixes in the air for the video. Each one was a separate aircraft file. This was done about 4 years ago and I think the aircraft files have been vastly improved since then. Per the comment thread on the video, I get the feeling he is not going to do an updated version. I agree with you Jim. I thought it was a great depiction of what we did 24/7/365; for 30+ years. Sometimes visitors to the museum that ask me "did the F-106 ever see combat and did it shoot down Migs? " My usual answer: "No,We protected American Airspace, and it was so feared by the Russians, that they never had the courage to stray too close to our airspace "  My other answer is: "We protected American Airspace, so the F-4's could push mud in Southeast Asia and be famous".  |
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Post by Jim on Oct 17, 2012 10:41:48 GMT 9
Video was great- But- there is no way that a tankless a/c will be able to maintain the same airborne time as one with tanks... The plane will be down to fuel minimums about the time that the video took, because of the time in burner..... If we ignore what we know about the bird that is really one outstanding video- worthy of watching again
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Post by LBer1568 on Oct 17, 2012 12:22:28 GMT 9
While it was enteraining, it was not close to the real world of Six's responding to a Bear intercept. First off, how many long range intercepts had to refuel in route to intercept??? Answer...none.
When accomplishing an intercept one six would move to the Visual Identification (VI) Position while other maintained lock on from rear of target 1000 yards or so back. The six had a weapons panel selection for VI. The IP Pilot would come in low and to the right of target and try to get radio contact. He would then announce "Aircraft attempting entry into US Airspace State your intentions." Hell, I heard that many times in movies...
The exhaust from both sixes looked like F4's with dark smoke; Sixes burned cleaner.
All in all a nice video, just not technically accurate.
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