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Old 06-02-2017 | 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Doug Cronkhite
That high alpha pass was pretty impressive. Same for energy retention and accel.. Very cool stuff.
i talked to one of the F-16 company test pilots....he said the problem with the Falcon doing that routine was that it got too fast too quickly, and it did not bleed out speed easily...so they had to go vertical constantly. We can see on the other hand that the 35 can be balls to the wall the whole time, retain lots of energy and not necessarily over-g due to high speeds. Gonna go watch it at 1PM (day off today).