Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!cbnews!military From: shafer@drynix (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: F-16 afterburners Message-ID: <7443@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 14 Jun 89 03:26:41 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Mary Shafer Ward Page writes: Actually, the F-16 only has detents at the military setting. Once you go into afterburner the throttle moves smoothly. This is true for the C and N models, I'm not sure about the A model. It is true for the A model. I just asked one of our test pilots. He say it's true for all US fighters. We decided that it may be covered by some MILSPEC. This pilot also flys a MiG-15 (for a museum), so now I have even more information. In the MiG-15, turning the engine off and on is done with the HP (high pressure) cock, which is separate from the throttle lever. The MiG-15 throttle lever is just a throttle, with a range from idle to MIL, since it doesn't have a burner. He thinks that the MiG-17, which does have a burner, has a detent at MIL. I have also been told that the Concorde has the detent at max dry thrust (this isn't a military plane, after all).