Re: TurboKat: an F-14G?

From: Kay Chang <kaychang_at_eden.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:59:11 -0500 (CDT)

Courtney again.>>A carrier has 3 cabbels a jet must catch when it lands, if
it misses the sensible thing to do is to take back off and try try again or
els they DIEEEEE!!!

>>>On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Edo Andromedo wrote:
>>>>How do a F-14 do a VTOL flight?
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>>On Sat, 6 Jul 1996, ARTHUR JOHN FREDA
>>>It has the CAPABILITY. In other words, you can add on stuff to make it do
>>>VTOL. It doesn't come made with it.
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>>Although that they have to totaly refit the F-14 to add that VTOL flight
>>capablity.
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>The most you could really do is make it a STOL aircraft, as was done
>with an F-15 a few years ago. For VTOL one would be better off with
>a whole new airframe.
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>>>BTW, F-14 is NAVY, not Air Force.
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>>I forgot. :(
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>US Navy. But also Imperial Iranian Air Force, or whatever it's
>called today :)
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>>>Note how a navy jet has an arrestor hook to catch the carrier cable,
>>>and an air force jet doesn't.
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>Some Air Force aircraft have arrestor gear, as there is portable
>arresor cable equipment that can be installed on conventional
>runways to reduce landing distances. What Navy aircraft also have is
>seriously heavy-duty landing gear to absorb the stresses of catapult
>launch and also the vertical loads from landing on the carrier (as
>in "airplane moving down while ship pitches up at same time" :).
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>Ed
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Received on Tue Jul 09 1996 - 15:38:01 PDT