flight's concept of a 'good landing'

[D. Christopher Dunlap]

In article <8902172038.AA26677 at adt.uucp>, madd at adt.UUCP (jim frost) writes:
> >Or flying through all four buildings in one pass. 
> 
> Or taking off across the runway and turning inside the tower flying an
> f15 or f16.  It's pretty easy with the f16 but the f15 doesn't perform
> quite so well.  I also like to do 8g turns at below 100ft immediately
> after take-off, or to lift and immediately go into a roll.  Looks
> impressive in airshows!

Rob Mace is the king of amazing stunts. I'm not bad myself, but Rob
still managed to pull a Top-Gun on me a couple times. You'd be on his
tail about to nail him with your cannon, and he'd pull up and hit his
spoilers. You'd undershoot him and  he'd nose down, reset the spoilers, hit 
full throttle, and pick you off. This whole manoeuver would take about
a second and a half.

Rob was also real good at loosing people by pulling out of a steep dive
at the last moment while the pursuer buried themselves.

I used to have a good airshow where I headed down the length of the
runway, lifted off, snap-roll, touchdown, and liftoff again. Took me a
few takes though. Again, I think Rob originated this trick too.

> >Do you folks all still use sidewinders and rockets? Try flying with
> >cannons only, and no "head-ons".
> 
> We're not to that stage yet, although it's pretty easy to avoid
> sidewinders and missiles if you know they're there (ie you're watching
> your radar).  One of my co-workers actually managed to shoot down an
> f15 with a 747 in real combat -- quite an achievement considering the
> pilot of the f15 was using missiles.
> 
> jim frost
> madd at bu-it.bu.edu

Mark Libby used to fly a cessna and shoot down fighters of all sorts.

has anyone got into playing "arena"?




chris


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D. Christopher Dunlap		email: dunlap at sgi.sgi.com

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