Airspeed of military planes

"BUFDRVR" wrote in message
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Damn, and a 15,000'+ long runway ?

It's not a big deal. Very landable (no hot brakes, not heroic efforts)
with
8,000 ft rwy.

Yeah, I realized that after I typed it. A 210K BUFF even without a drag
chute
would only eat up about 8,000' of runway, however in a 210K BUFF, you're
on
fumes!

I think Bones weigh about 195K without fuel and once they get below around
20K of fuel you have to sweep to 20 degrees to maintain CG. That's why
you'd want to land at the 20K, to keep the wings at 15 degrees. So it's a
215K landing, 6 AoA/186 KIAS. What BTIZ was remembering with his guess of
210 KIAS for a no flap approach was coming back to the pattern relatively
heavy so the pilot and co could beat everyone to death for 1+30. lol You'd
do a no flap ILS on the first approach and kill two birds with one stone on
a check ride.

I've landed with about 13K before, but I'm not trusting the gages any lower
than that. Of course now I'm not even lookin' at any gages, just talking
about them as an old retired fart. :-(

Cheers,

JB