plane designing business is some vicious circle , of endless studies that lead nowhere . One thing does a thing to a thousand things , it's perfectly possible to work with guts for 20 years and achieve nothing physically but have computer networks full of studies ...
you don't have to be an engineer or anything to see there's something wrong with the graphic , as long as you can identify the F-16 . The tip of the arrow or something , right ? Which is like older than yours idiotly and like the standart all the combat aircraft have been measured against in the last 4 decades . Some lovely stories abound about its inception ; Americans suffering against Commies over Vietnam , Military Industrial Complex robbing the US treasury dry and some heroic Americans doing heroic stuff . With designing the heroic Falcon . Bucking the trend , reversing the bad luck , whatever and ever . It's all BS . F-16 was not designed for dogfighting , it was not sized to have a thrust/weight ratio 25% better than the benchmark Fishbed model . It was not meant to fly 500 miles , drop the drop tanks , smash the enemy planes and fly the flying happily back . Harry Hillaker , head of the 250 strong "semi-black" General Dynamics team that did the plane , insisted for long he was the father of the thing , professionally avoiding the story of how the lightweight day fighter ever became the heavy night strike , which the so called Viper does as well as any . After Lockmart took over and Lockmart loving only Lockmart and not loving others , he would limit himself to be the source of the "sperm" , like implying his kid was adopted by others and robustly brought up . See , F-16 was not even designed as F-16 .
it would have been easier in Russia . Where there was one central agency for research and results available for all to see . Mikoyan and Sukhoi had decades of "battles" on who had the first idea of the Fulcrum / Flanker shape , which is the end result of a committee tasked to melt down the 4 US Teen Fighters and get synthesis or something . This be filler and don't bet money on it ? F-16 was just the "wing" , some random work in some US university . On the future , as 1980s were the future in the 1960s , and computers continously optimizing an aerofoil (meaning wing for us idiots) . There are like gazillion wing shapes and one taken , like out of the hat . Because it's a mere study and one needs a reference value to see what improvements will be in offer . A simple shape , 40° leading edge , aspect ratio of 3 . Aspect ratio is an indicator of wing's suitability for different flight regimes . If you wanna go fast , get a wing that has a lower number . If you wanna some ease of mind during landing , choose a higher one . Lower leading edge similarly helps slow flying and stuff . Add a computer or assume that you have one to adjust the flaps at the back and front for higher output and lesser drag . A moment of wow , ain't it cool ? But computing power is extremely low in those days , can you imagine they haven't even played Civ I yet !!?? If people are interested and stuff , the thing must be tested . Wing tunnels do suffer from scale issues in those days , slightest imperfection will mar the results . Leaving actual flight . No one will design a plane for that , now that these stuff cost serious amounts of money , but an F-8 will do . Real easy to replace the wing and more to the point , not exactly dangerous . By then at least two American pilots have flown Crusaders with wing tips folded up ; ı don't know how "pre-flights" were done in those days , where the pilot is supposed to go around the plane and shake stuff to see whether they are loose enough to be a safety hazard .
one university paper . Those Americans must be surprised to see their modest proposal they tinkered with for a couple of weeks and added bits here and there becoming the hot topic of the industry . Everybody going the same route . Get a Crusader from USN storage , add a wing . Simple and cheap ; will never be acceptable to bosses . So , improve by making a full type , wing brought down to centre for best performance , leading edge extensions added , cut down to inlet so that nose of the plane will direct airflow to the engine at high angles of attack and because it will have to be Pentagon to fund the entire stuff , give a bubble canopy to make it look like a fighter and send the lawyers to Ford Corporation whether they will allow the use of the name of Mustang ...
there are at least 3 Mustang IIs . Vought's ugly that would have been sold to Turkey as an attack aircraft and the like , because US Congress had decided to sink a major US engine maker , you know , because London was ranting about the lack of trade ; RR to be declared bankrupt in 1971 kind of thing . A very long story , but it involves Arabs with too much oil money , without too much feeling for the US Lawmakers , so unlike the good old Saudis . Boeing's "supermodel thin" . Which was the type around the 1970 "competition" was launched . American industry always loves the money , it had the thing to get some money . Mustang II would be done by some company for a couple of millions of buck . Northrop commercially working on improved F-5s with its own money decided to bid with the unwanted F-17 to be , inspiring Lockheed to push its own F-104 variants . Yeah , thinking it wouldn't be allowed the supermodel , Boeing's first candidate was a J-79 engined Mirage F-1 , which might have been bought like hot cakes by the Libyans to be gifted throughout Africa for influence . Minimum work , tidy little profits , involves the Frenchies for stability and creates a "good will" for Boeing's airliners , to be bought by the same oil wells . That's how the General Dynamics won . Everybody was thinking just two planes , while the thing had like grown stupendously . Hillaker decided on 300 square feet of wing area , because that was what the Pentagon analysts had used in their own calculations and he might have gone like 200 to go head to head with Boeing . He designed a bomb truck and all that and because that still cost too much , he cut down the size for the initial two . Which barely beat the unwanted F-17 . Boeing's had no luck , because the US Lawmakers had suddenly decided to save money by demanding the programme to be available as a combat plane . Same state with Vought , cuts down the remarkable "patriotism" of Texans when it comes to Defence , and you know , profits . Gotta remember Israelis are doing the Kfir and they do not exactly want good stuff in Arab hands : Hence Boeing's looks like a toy when next to GD's , because Fort Worth was told it would get a full manufacturing programme . The size thing still worked . 300 square feet was too little for landing on a carrier and larger winged version became Japan's F-2 , much better than the Jaguar based F-1 . While smaller versions adapted became Korea's T-50 and Taiwan's "home brew" fighter .
there was a guy on some web forum who said even that wasn't the end of the story . Seems the F-16 could actually turn even tighter if its control software was "relaxed" but the structure (simple and cheap aluminium) wouldn't bear the loads . Turkish to boot and ı was never a fan of the guy , now that he insisted the hated F-35 was an equal of the F-16 in pure numbers . No doubt Footpad would sudddenly improve and pull all sorts of stunts as soon as some American wrote a new miraculous addition to F-35's software . Ah yes , we are really coming to some place ; now that the guy became another casualty of London's god given mission to design a Qatari combat aircraft to be built by Turkish slave labour . How dares he to assume unobtanium/ adamantium alloys make Typhoon eat the dust of the Falcon ?
because us Turks lack computers , in addition to everything , with the standart provisions that am an idiot and not actually one of us Turks and it's just a figure of speech , the requirement was written around some basic assumptions . Because of stuff of how we will all be put into concentration camps and the like , one aim was to shoot down an AWACS flying over Athens city centre . Not Greek hating per se , but you gotta understand the prevalent Stealth works on limiting the angles of radar returns . Actual Greek radar stations in place then gives a fuller understanding of what should be done . That the evil Turkish is not full standart is no issue . Its pilots would be shot like dogs anyhow , so what if 2 "gets" killed for each F-22 they "down" ? 2 to 1 , the F-16 number would be 200 to 1 or thereabouts . Tankers , J-Stars like stuff , a couple of drones , this being the immediate aftermath of the relevant Gulf War . The J-20 of the Chinese comes to mind ? Yeah , exactly why you see "one" in the graphic , the beginning . No relation you dumb eager American , just the notion of a cruiser , but perhaps with larger wheels as all the airbases would be regularly cruise missiled .
the Brit mockery in the immediate start of the stuff followed the lines of stupid Turks want the moon and logical British experts cut them down to size . Actually the name of the team leader mentioned online . Inevitable that Ankara would have heard of what was being discussed , right ? Congregation's latter actions prove America is unhappy with the overall lack of success in the Syrian mess . No stones should be left unturned , if you know what ı mean . Hence , flashier first edition , next to the cruiser . Which we are to be convinced will not be able to make it to Athens from anywhere between Eskişehir and Van but will eat F-22s alive , reversing the exchange ratio . Because the F-22's software is archaic and its datalinks are baaaaaaaad . Halfway around the route , without any fanfare it will become a resume for the expatriate experts , being reduced to the lemon or monkey edition of the F-22 . (The picture is some "unclassified" from 2014 , might have mixed the order .) 'Cause we don't deserve any better , while the experts will be working on real stuff , they gotta keep sharp . Better than nothing , could safely kill vanilla Flankers . Oh , wait , the real one , just the capability of the F-16 , 200 to 1 , with anywhere between 2 or 3 times the overall cost .
this is the point ı will be called a liar again . That it was the so called national aviation industry of Turkey that published the graphic . Why , it is the road-map as designed by the US and the like . It never amazes me with this relative of the mastermind of the Disgrace of July 15th is "secretly" photographed kissing the American flag . Congregation member having escaped the US , he has a shop or something and has the Stars and Stripes on the wall . Some Turkish TVs supposedly said it was a church , too . Now that the Party finds the going rough and their fight with the Congregation seems , ı don't know , the only thing ? America gave New Turkey to London , after the unsettling Brexit affair and what a bonanza New Turkey is ! 4 major projects of "free enterprise" with a company funds a bridge or tunnel and gets decades of payback with Goverment guarantees . Yeah , 4 major projects and 4 billions US dollars of "free money" in the first year alone . The canal is slated to cost 65 billions or something and being an idiot ı see no point in its construction , apart from a possible killing of entire marine life in Marmara , you know , so that we wouldn't have fish to fish , too .
but it's like amazing . London happily took over the job . To fly a New Turkey jet on the 100th anniversary of the Republic of 1923 .
As an insult . No point in discussing why the F-35 will never wear the markings of the now dead Turkish AirForce and where it was first said like 10 to 5 years back . Will be called a liar again , since every airforce has the roundel and they all look the same in Stealth Gray hence New Turkey has the new roundel as much as the PM's "fit for Sultans" mosque costs one third of the cost it will be claimed to cost after the elections . Or the coins made in the name of the Congregation are still in circulation or something because the Islamic tradition identifies an independent state one that has its own coins among other stuff , as a yet another proof of why the Republic was dead .
thus some Leftist TV channel has it on and on . On a band under the screen that says FT aka Financial Times reports the Anglo New Turkey project is under strain . And even that is no bridge building , contrary to what "is" claimed . Because Trump needs a victory , any victory and that means a crack in New Turkey's hostage diplomacy , now that the PM also needs a victory , any victory . Hence F-35 will not be sent to New Turkey , even if they are to be at some US airbase until the end of 2019 training wise , so that some brilliant scheme can also be found around that they are not wanted here , at all . Typical policy for average Arab polity , to replace one influence with an other and London adds some leverage to Washington's . Now that US Lawmakers are to vote exactly today on an embargo . Oh yeah , don't forget to evacuate your center fuselage jigs from Mürted ; no intention of leaving that as a canard . On how god like , mighty USAF would vape us all , only if it had 34 893 more F-35s , but there was a production bottleneck ...
but her office never opened. Later, we got a text saying she was having problems with er father.
