Re: F-14 do a VTOL flight?

From: Pastmaster... not! Louie! <gvvy03_at_snowcrest.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 13:30:33 -0700

>>>>It has the CAPABILITY. In other words, you can add on stuff to make it do
>>>>VTOL. It doesn't come made with it.

Yeah, I know. I thought that the Harrier was the only WORKING VTOL jet in
service. I have friends in the Civil Air Patrol, and we (me, Richard, Josh)
talk about military jets all the time, and I didn't know that was possible.
>>
>>>Although that they have to totaly refit the F-14 to add that VTOL flight
>>>capability.
>
>>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.
>
>Of course when they have done with it, it gonna be a totaly new airplane,
>but will it be a F-14?

Yes, a lot of changes would have to be made to the powerplant, the fuselauge
[sp] and the cockpit control panels. But it ^MIGHT^ be possible (at a VERY
large expense...).

Oh, BTW; has anybody ever heard that the F-16 WAS initially designed for
outer orbit flight missions? My friend told me that the F-16 was originally
designed to leap out of the Earth's atmosphere for short periods of time
then come back and land. Maybe that's where the SK writers/tech advisors
came up with the idea of the "Speed of Heat" shields. . . . . . . . . . .
>
>>Ed
>

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Received on Wed Jul 10 1996 - 17:54:11 PDT