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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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02-14-2013, 04:56 AM
takedown
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I know I have a love/hate relationship with the tilt-jet. We've talked about this here on our thread. So, for the new rawhides of the filecard thread, I'll try to explain. We have a hard time believing the Skyhawk is able to fly, because of no wings for sustained lift in flight. But it goes beyond that for me. Tilt-jets is a cool idea but...
The idea that jet engines can perform sustained lift, vertical lift like a helicopter is almost impossible. The longer the jet aircraft hovers in its own wake with unstable air expelled from its engines the tougher it is to maintain lift. The longer it stays in the same airspace it attempts to create more lift by rushing more air to maintain lift. So unstable air against the already unstable air causes a violent reaction, the aircraft cannot support stable flight and thus begins a "stall" senario for the aircraft and possibly result in a crash.
Yeah, I know it's cool in Firefly, Caprica and GI JOE. Tilt-fans in my mind might be able to work like in Avatar & the Sigma 6 Dragonhawk, but still questionable. Yet, even the Tilt-rotors havent mastered transitioning from rotory-wing flight to fixed wing flight. Jets like the AV-8 Harrier & the Joint strike fighter doesnt use tilt-jets, they use movable nozzles to assist in "hovering" but they still have trouble with a maintained hover with an unstable air flow. Remember that True Lies had a Harrier on cables to hover... Just imagine from forward movement lift to transition to slow down airspeed and not stall yet have the engines at maximum to maintain lift. Wild!
So, I'm of the old flight characteristics mindset. Until they fix the dirty air problem Rattlers and Sky Hawks cant fly like that. I still use the Tiger Rat and SkyHawk Mark II, as a S-TOL style aircraft rather than a V-TOL. SkyHawks Mark 1 & Mark 1A I use like the "Revenge of Cobra" miniseries, river interceptor craft.
Yet it's up to you how your Joe Team & imagination works. As for me and my 79th JOE Force, Im saying SkyHawks, just like Sharcs aren't capable of sustained flight.
So now you know...
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