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From: hah@inteloa.intel.com (Hans A. Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another (long) F/A-18 Interceptor r
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Date: 18 Jun 88 22:34:32 GMT
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In article <31100001@hobbiton> choinski@hobbiton.prime.com writes:
$Or better yet, as you reach the operational ceiling, have the engines
$flame out.  I used another simulator that did this.  We would crank an F16
$to max speed and stand her on her tail.  At about 50,000  feet the engine would
$flame out and we would continue upward on sheer momentum until we finally 
$slowed, stopped, and began to tumble downward.  At 50,000 feet or so you could
$try to restart the engines (which usually worked).
$
$This seems to me to be much more realistic.  Besides, we were having 
$competitions to see who could get the highest (I think the best was around
$65,000 feet or so).

If you want realism then ONLY the F16 can do this.  The F16 is the only
modern fighter with a starter.  By modern I mean F14, F15 and F18.  I do
not know if the F20 has one.  BTW the Blue Angles were here in beautiful
Hillsboro OR last weekend.

Hans