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Re: [OM] Of interest perhaps to Indiana Barker and other fliers

Subject: Re: [OM] Of interest perhaps to Indiana Barker and other fliers
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:53:52 +0100
I think that the F-5 would have been far better, Chris.  It had agility as well 
as looking cool (very important, of course :-))

Chris

> On 31 May 15, at 23:56, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I don’t think that the engine was the only factor in its gaining that name, 
>> Chris.  
>> Although it was designed as a high-speed interceptor, the Germans and 
>> Italians (and 
>> perhaps other nations) used it for ground attack, nuclear strike in the case 
>> of the 
>> the latter, with the F104S (I think).  But the machine had tiny wings, as 
>> you have 
>> pointed out, and wasn’t great on the recovery from dive attacks; so if you 
>> pulled 
>> too hard or were slow, I understand that the anti-stall measures would 
>> ensure that 
>> you didn’t pull out of the dive.  We in the RAF heard that there were 
>> several 
>> aircraft that hit the ground 12 o’clock from the centre of the dive target.
>> 
> 
>     I can see it being used as an interceptor or a one-way nuclear strike, 
> but not for ground support.  The various F-5 derivatives probably had similar 
> problems when used for ground support.

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