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Subject: Re: [OM] Flight Woes (OT)
From: JOHN DUGGAN <john.duggan10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:21:24 +0000 (GMT)
Chris,
      surely you have not forgotten the English Electric Lightning. A beast of 
a machine, intercepted an American spy plane at 88,000 ft, and caught Concorde 
in level flight. Also I believe it was the first plane to accelerate vertically 
like a rocket.
(don't tell me it was before your time!  ;-0

Regards
  John Duggan,
     Wales, UK
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--- On Sun, 25/1/09, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> They probably didn't need it, Chuck.  Even the huge F14
> didn't need  
> burner once they had the GE F110 engine fitted, the F14D, I
> think it  
> was.
> 
> But it's just not cricket to have that much power.  RAF
> aircraft have  
> always been more frugal than thrusty, until the Typhoon
> (Eurofighter)  
> that is.  And that has oodles, no, double oodles, of power!
> :-)
> 
> Chris



      
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