Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!rutgers!mtune!mtunx!whuts!homxb!antique!cjp From: cjp@antique.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: JET | Supra 2400 | Multi-Tasking Hard Drives Message-ID: <2112@antique.UUCP> Date: 15 Mar 88 20:11:37 GMT References: <4578@garfield.UUCP> <9280@sunybcs.UUCP> Reply-To: cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 16 Summary: jet, not rocket In article <9280@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Reilly) writes: >In article <4578@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes: >>BUG you CAN'T make the F16 go straight up for ever. It should be >>able to do this because it has a lot of thrust. >... >to handle/survive going straight up at mach 2+ for an extended amount of time >he would have to be able to withstand a very high G count..... Going straight up at constant speed (even if it's Mach 2), you would feel exactly 1 G. Maybe JET is modeling the lack of oxygen when you go too high. That'd be real effective for cutting one's thrust. -- Charles Poirier (decvax,ihnp4,attmail)!vax135!cjp "Docking complete... Docking complete... Docking complete..."