Re: TurboKat: an F-14G?

From: Ed Rudnicki <erudnick_at_pica.army.mil>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 14:00:49 EDT


>>On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Edo Andromedo wrote:
>>>How do a F-14 do a VTOL flight?
>
>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.
>
>Although that they have to totaly refit the F-14 to add that VTOL flight
>capablity.

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.


>>BTW, F-14 is NAVY, not Air Force.
>
>I forgot. :(

US Navy. But also Imperial Iranian Air Force, or whatever it's
called today :)


>>Note how a navy jet has an arrestor hook to catch the carrier cable,
>>and an air force jet doesn't.

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" :).






Ed

Received on Tue Jul 09 1996 - 14:46:09 PDT

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