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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JET
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Date: 14 Mar 88 22:47:29 GMT
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>>BUG you CAN'T make the F16 go straight up for ever.  

> sorry, I don't think ANY airplane can go "straight up" for ever,

Well Mike, you're both right. The F16 and F18 jets are capable of 'going
ballistic' because the thrust they generate exceeds their weight. Thus the
origin of the 'Saturn V' manuever where a pilor points his plane straight
up and climbs. This works up to about 40,000 feet where the air starts to
get thin. Jet doesn't allow this. It stalls after climbing a couple of 
thousand feet at any altitude. 


--Chuck McManis
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