Mystery plane! - New stealth fighter

"Big John" wrote in message
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They used to launch the Skippers private car off the cat as practice
for the newbe's G

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Like this!

http://www.thejump.net/humor/catch-and-release.htm

Bob

Thank you.

Big John, VF-23
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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:49:41 GMT, Bob Moore
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Does *anyone* on a piloting newsgroup NOT like "Top Gun" --
undoubtedly the best flying movie of all time?

From a former Naval Aviator (1958-1967), Top Gun "sucked"!
Hmmm....maybe I served in a different Navy....

Bob Moore

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:hyc9d.349380$Fg5.93046@attbi_s53...
If you like fake, it's great.

Of course it's not 100% accurate -- it's Hollywood.

(What, you mean you never flew canopy-to-canopy with the enemy while
giving
them "the bird", Big John?? :-)

But what makes the movie great is:

a) Lots of flying, afterburner flame and thunder (on a home theater, it's
awesome)
b) Enough of a love story to keep the women interested.

It's a movie that women and men can both watch -- even though it's mostly
a
movie about the F-14.

And my buddy's kid who did four years on the USS Carl Vinson cringes then
goes ballistic at the mere mention of the movie. :~)

"Geoffrey Barnes" wrote in message
link.net...
I don't know why you would assume that. The Navy, and the DOD in general,
vet movies pretty well before letting them use thier stuff and I'd be
willing to bet that is a Navy CV or CVN.

You may or may not have liked "Top Gun" but I wouldn't call it a bad
movie.
I can't think of a DOD supported film in the last 10 years that would
fall
into the really sucks column.

At last, I have found it! Proof positive that you can't say ANYTHING in
this newsgroup, not matter how innocuous, no matter how tongue-in-cheek,
and
not gather at least one indignantly negative response.

Thanks, Gig... I really needed this last bit of proof before I published
my
dissertation ("Flame Wars and Hypersensitive Aviators: An Analysis of
Dispute in Rec.Aviation.Piloting"), and you have given it to me! With any
luck, I can get this to the committee today and get hooded at the December
graduation. Wooo-hooo!



I would hardly call my response a flame or in any way hypersensitive and I
would defeinatly not call it an indignantly negative response.

But please feel free to use your response to defend your disertation. I'm
sure you'll look good in the cap.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message " -- undoubtedly the
best flying movie of all time?

The Great Waldo Pepper!

D.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message " -- undoubtedly the
best flying movie of all time?

The Great Waldo Pepper!

D.

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 at 06:21:28 in message
, Rick Durden
wrote:
If you want a good flying movie, go find a copy of "633 Squadron",
which is technically the most accurate flying movie ever made (plot is
a little shakey, although it's based on fact), the uniforms, vehicles
and aircraft are 100% accurate (according to folks who know that sort
of thing) and the scenes of the Merlin powered D.H. Mosquitoes flying
are excellent. The only downside is that they destroyed a Mossie
filming the movie. Another flying movie that is better than "Top Gun"
is "Battle of Britain" which has some extraordinary flight sequences
using WWII aircraft (even though all the German airplanes have Merlin
engines by the time they filmed it, about 1968).

The German 109s were the Spanish version and the Spanish loaned quite a
hunk of their Air Force for it!

I agree about ' Battle of Britain' I just watched it again and it is
good. Some of the crash sequences looked faked because they _are_, when
the rest of the some flight looks real.

As I recall 'Catch 22' had some good flying in it as well - I believe 19
real B25s were flown in that.
--
David CL Francis

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 at 06:21:28 in message
, Rick Durden
wrote:
If you want a good flying movie, go find a copy of "633 Squadron",
which is technically the most accurate flying movie ever made (plot is
a little shakey, although it's based on fact), the uniforms, vehicles
and aircraft are 100% accurate (according to folks who know that sort
of thing) and the scenes of the Merlin powered D.H. Mosquitoes flying
are excellent. The only downside is that they destroyed a Mossie
filming the movie. Another flying movie that is better than "Top Gun"
is "Battle of Britain" which has some extraordinary flight sequences
using WWII aircraft (even though all the German airplanes have Merlin
engines by the time they filmed it, about 1968).

The German 109s were the Spanish version and the Spanish loaned quite a
hunk of their Air Force for it!

I agree about ' Battle of Britain' I just watched it again and it is
good. Some of the crash sequences looked faked because they _are_, when
the rest of the some flight looks real.

As I recall 'Catch 22' had some good flying in it as well - I believe 19
real B25s were flown in that.
--
David CL Francis

By the way the plane design is heavily borrowed from a Northrop patent. It
was given the name of switchblade by Internet people when patent appeared
back in 1995 as far as I remember, and there are plenty of digital mockups
of it around.

Todd Pattist wrote:

I thought some of you might like to see our new stealth
fighter:

The plane in these pictures is still officially Air Vehicle
Number 1, a prototype on board the USS Washington for
catapult fit checks. It's not exactly top secret, but
certainly not public info. To be known as the F/A-37.
Although specs are classified, it is believed to be a Mach
3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range), super-cruise stealth
fighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4000 mile
range. Awesome!

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-37on_deck.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-A-37_cat1.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...A-37_pilot.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...37catapult.jpg

Look at the pictures first ;-)
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* Hollywood Joins Abe Underway to Film 'Stealth' Release
Date:
6/23/2004 1:57:00 PM By Journalist Seaman Michael Cook, USS
Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs


This airplane has been making the rounds for several weeks
now, with folks being a bit confused as to whether it is the
real deal.

On 18 June 2004 a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star
movie "Stealth" was filmed on the flight deck aboard the
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
Lincoln was conducting local operations in preparation for
an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry
docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). About 80 cast
and crew members were aboard the Everett-based aircraft
carrier to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures action
film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Sam Shepard, The
$130 million film is expected to hit theaters in 2005.

According to the back story, the F/A-37 "Talon" is a Mach
3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a
4000nm range. Top speed is somewhere in the Mach 4+ range.
The movie is premised on an artificial-intelligence program
designed to fly jet aircraft and reduce human casualties.
Not surprisingly, one of the AI robo-pilots runs amok when
Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the
?Talon?. When the plane begins attacking friendly forces,
Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial
intelligence.

I looked up the movie "Stealth" and it looks like a July
release next year.
That female pilot is Jessica Biel. Sam Shepard and Jamie
Foxx are in the movie.

Debunked!




"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and
skill." Wilbur Wright

By the way the plane design is heavily borrowed from a Northrop patent. It
was given the name of switchblade by Internet people when patent appeared
back in 1995 as far as I remember, and there are plenty of digital mockups
of it around.

Todd Pattist wrote:

I thought some of you might like to see our new stealth
fighter:

The plane in these pictures is still officially Air Vehicle
Number 1, a prototype on board the USS Washington for
catapult fit checks. It's not exactly top secret, but
certainly not public info. To be known as the F/A-37.
Although specs are classified, it is believed to be a Mach
3.5 (top speed in the Mach 4 range), super-cruise stealth
fighter/bomber/interceptor with approximately a 4000 mile
range. Awesome!

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-37on_deck.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...-A-37_cat1.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...A-37_pilot.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/pattist/imag...37catapult.jpg

Look at the pictures first ;-)
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* Hollywood Joins Abe Underway to Film 'Stealth' Release
Date:
6/23/2004 1:57:00 PM By Journalist Seaman Michael Cook, USS
Abraham Lincoln Public Affairs


This airplane has been making the rounds for several weeks
now, with folks being a bit confused as to whether it is the
real deal.

On 18 June 2004 a scene for the upcoming Columbia Tri-Star
movie "Stealth" was filmed on the flight deck aboard the
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
Lincoln was conducting local operations in preparation for
an upcoming scheduled deployment after 10 months of dry
docked Planned Incremental Availability (PIA). About 80 cast
and crew members were aboard the Everett-based aircraft
carrier to shoot scenes for the Columbia Pictures action
film starring Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Sam Shepard, The
$130 million film is expected to hit theaters in 2005.

According to the back story, the F/A-37 "Talon" is a Mach
3.5, super cruise stealth fighter/bomber/interceptor with a
4000nm range. Top speed is somewhere in the Mach 4+ range.
The movie is premised on an artificial-intelligence program
designed to fly jet aircraft and reduce human casualties.
Not surprisingly, one of the AI robo-pilots runs amok when
Navy officials decide to use an unmanned version of the
?Talon?. When the plane begins attacking friendly forces,
Navy pilots are called in to save the planet from artificial
intelligence.

I looked up the movie "Stealth" and it looks like a July
release next year.
That female pilot is Jessica Biel. Sam Shepard and Jamie
Foxx are in the movie.

Debunked!




"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and
skill." Wilbur Wright