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"Ron" wrote in message ... This has been mooted, either as is or in a civil variant, at various times. For some of the issues involved you might wish to read "C-17 -- How to Get More for Less": http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA357811 It's about 2 meg. And not a new idea, either. I was leafing through the FAA Type Dertificate Data Sheets one day, and discovered that the Lockheed C-141 had been certificated for civilian use. McD had been marketing the civil C-17 as the MD-17. The C-17 line does not need more work right now. |
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"Ron" wrote in message ... This has been mooted, either as is or in a civil variant, at various times. For some of the issues involved you might wish to read "C-17 -- How to Get More for Less": http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA357811 It's about 2 meg. And not a new idea, either. I was leafing through the FAA Type Dertificate Data Sheets one day, and discovered that the Lockheed C-141 had been certificated for civilian use. McD had been marketing the civil C-17 as the MD-17. With Long Beach's antics of last year, the name Douglas will never be on another civilian airplane. |
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|Do you really believe a fighter will carry 60,000 pounds of ordnance or
is |that a typo? Yes, I checked that out. It is the small dia. bomb, not the larger. http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...raft/fb-22.htm I read that as 30 x's 250 pounds = 7500 pounds. If you really think a fighter airframe, even modified as described, is capable of hauling 30 TONS of ordnance ... well, I've got this bridge I'm trying to sell and .... FYI the B-52 (rather larger than any F-22 derivative is likely to be) is advertised to carry up to 70,000 pounds of ordnance. R / John |
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"Tarver Engineering" wrote in message ... "R. David Steele" wrote in message ... |The Tomcat is gone quicker than you can think.... |There is a big push by CNO to axe the F-14 sooner than planned, like |now is too late...watch and see. | |The F/A-18 (I assume you mean the B/C/D models) already has a |replacement, E/F. I don't think you are following current Naval |Aviation very well. | |There is no need to replace the E/F Hornet, it will be pulling |fighter/CAP/FAC/Bomber/tanker etc. duties for the next 10 years. |Totally capable of performing all the above, with no current or future |enemy threat that can match it. Yes, I am aware that the E/F variants are the upgrade to the current F/A-18 and the F-14. However by the time the FB-22 is online, even those versions will be dated. Less dated than the F-22. You are not considering the F-22's two greatest flaws, the pre-96 Ada and the Mil-spec components. The entire procurement of the F/A-18E is a generation ahead of the F-22. What language is F-22 software written in? I presume Ada-95? |
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R. David Steele writes: | From what I have read, the C-17 should be cost effective. After | all the design costs are already paid for. And it is far less | expensive to run than the C-5. | | But it it more cost-effective than the Il-76s and An-224s that are | already in the market? Those have been already built & paid for. | |...and flown hard, and badly maintained... and from what I have heard, very high maintenance per hour flown. Extremely high cost of up keep, worst than one of the models in the Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated!!!! All very true, and a product of the Soviet maintenance model, where, say, an engine doesn't get the same level, both in frequency and depth, of periodic inspection that we use, and it gets pulled off the airframe & sent of to a factory-type facility for a complete rebuild much sooner than we would. When you're not fighting a Global War, that's expensive, and it means that there isn't a lot of support for numbers smaller than entire Air Forces. That being said, though, the price of a new-build Commercial C-17 would be pushing somewhere around 300 Million Dollars, or so. You can buy an awful lot of maintenance with the difference if you're picking up a used Il-76 from Honest Ivan's VVS Closeout Sales for 5 Million bucks. But I'd still rather ride in a Boeing. -- Pete Stickney A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster |
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In article , R. David Steele
wrote: | Should we be thinking of using the FB-22 Raptor as a replacement | for the F/A-18 (and the F-14)? I know that the current F-22 was | not designed to be heavy enough for naval use, but it could be | re-engineered. They are planning to bring the FB-22 (bomber | version that carries 30 2000 lbs bombs) online in the future. | Why not upgrade it then? | |There are stresses from carrier ops that just aren't allowed for |in the design of Air Force fighters, mainly having to do with the |landing and arrestment. Unless the plane is designed with these |forces from the start, you basically have to redesign the plane's |frame (which means moving dang near *everything*) to get it |ready. The F-35 is basically the same plane as the F-22. It has been modified to be a carrier aircraft. The F-35 is nothing at all like the F-22. It is a new design carrier capable a/c, unlike the F-22. Also, the avionics suite on the F-35 is at least 1 and sometimes 2 generations newer than the F-22. I participated on the NATF proposal back when. There was a remarkable amount of re-design necessary to make a land- based a/c capable for carrier use. This included; adding a keel to the airframe to take the arrestor loads, adding folding wings for deck storage, changing the way the engines are removed, changing the wing to allow lower approach speeds, changing the entire landing gear system, upgrading the corrosion plan, etc. Resulting in an entire new airframe. Not cheap and little in common with the USAF version, so what's the point. Which is exactly what DoD said, and why it went no-where. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur |
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"R. David Steele" wrote in message ... Should we be thinking of using the FB-22 Raptor as a replacement for the F/A-18 (and the F-14)? Lots of luck making a carrier landing in an F-22 I know that the current F-22 was not designed to be heavy enough for naval use, but it could be re-engineered. They are planning to bring the FB-22 (bomber version that carries 30 2000 lbs bombs) online in the future. Why not upgrade it then? 3 x 2000 lbs perhaps certainly not 30 Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"R. David Steele" wrote in message ... The F-35 is basically the same plane as the F-22. Its a totally different aircraft. It has been modified to be a carrier aircraft. No one version was DESIGNED that way Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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"R. David Steele" wrote in message ... | | Remember that we are planning for a war with China by the end of | the decade. | Are you planning to fight them all yourself or do you have a couple of buddies lined up to help ? Keith ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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