Top Gun- Maverick 2020

[churchmouse]

P-38? I missed the twin-tail devil! Designed by Kelly Johnson (the guy who also was responsible to the F-104, U-2, and SR-71) the Lightning had twin Allison engines, four .50 cals and a 20MM cannon. It was bad to the bone, just ask Yamamoto. Oh wait, you can't, he's dead! Got smoked by a P-38 Lightning!

"Glacier Gal" was the P-38 dug out of a glacier in Greenland. It was restored in about 10 years and was at an air show in 2004 at Langley AFB. It sounded like the baddest hot rod ever. The P-51 with the Rolls Royce Merlin (also built by Packard) engine had a very unique, very classic sound. The P-38 just sounded bad ass!

If memory serves the port engine rotated in reverse to counter the torque roll. Those are the engines they ran in land speed cars and dragsters.

Yes they packed a deadly punch. A few were equipped with a cannon (yes a real cannon) for anti ship duty.

 

[gregkl]

Did you guys read any of the comments after the YouTube trailer? There are some funny ones.

 

[KellyinAvon]

If memory serves the port engine rotated in reverse to counter the torque roll. Those are the engines they ran in land speed cars and dragsters.

Yes they packed a deadly punch. A few were equipped with a cannon (yes a real cannon) for anti ship duty.

For the guy who designed the SR-71 (before computers) coming up with reverse-torque on one engine was child's-play! Kelly Johnson was the man at the Lockheed Skunk Works.

 

[Kutnupe14]

The F-4 would've been awesome.

But the F-15.... Its nice and all... but... can it land on a carrier?

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[actaeon277]

If memory serves the port engine rotated in reverse to counter the torque roll. Those are the engines they ran in land speed cars and dragsters.

Yes they packed a deadly punch. A few were equipped with a cannon (yes a real cannon) for anti ship duty.

A LOT of fighters had a mix of cannon and machine gun.

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;kyAn3fSs8_A]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAn3fSs8_A[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

Then one day, 2 idiots stole 2 Zero fighters, started blowing up yachts.

Capt. finally had enough, and said, "Splash the Zeros".

[video=youtube;NkOsXNF_ZoM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOsXNF_ZoM[/video]

 

[rhino]

For the guy who designed the SR-71 (before computers) coming up with reverse-torque on one engine was child's-play! Kelly Johnson was the man at the Lockheed Skunk Works.

The coolest part of the SR-71 were the engines . . . a hybrid of turbojet and ramjet. At high speed, the flow was directed about the turbine and directly to the afterburners. Brilliant concept and design.

(three guess who was on a research team studying ramjet combustion when he was in grad school . . . hint: he's a well known science denier with "no background at all" in science).

 

[actaeon277]

The coolest part of the SR-71 were the engines . . . a hybrid of turbojet and ramjet. At high speed, the flow was directed about the turbine and directly to the afterburners. Brilliant concept and design.

(three guess who was on a research team studying ramjet combustion when he was in grad school . . . hint: he's a well known science denier with "no background at all" in science).

Bennie? From Bennie and the Jets?

 

[rhino]

Bennie? From Bennie and the Jets?

Buh buh buh Bennie!

 

[actaeon277]

So I got it in one guess

 

[rhino]

So I got it in one guess

Hah!

Did you know that the combustion instabilities in ramjets are dominated by acoustics?

 

[actaeon277]

Hah!

Did you know that the combustion instabilities in ramjets are dominated by acoustics?

I musta missed that in thermodynamic/heat transfer/fluid flow class.

 

[Dead Duck]

Here Are All the Screw Ups in the Top Gun: Maverick Trailer Already

 

[actaeon277]

Just because 30 years have passed in real time, doesn't mean they've passed in movie time.

 

[churchmouse]

A LOT of fighters had a mix of cannon and machine gun.

Not a machine gun can but a larger bore single shot breach loading "CANNON". It was low in the nose. I saw a deal on the Military channel once about these ship hunters.

 

[gregkl]

Just because 30 years have passed in real time, doesn't mean they've passed in movie time.

True.

The helmet comment is that they probably used the helmets they did so the movie watchers could see their faces. They have done that in other space movies and movies containing underwater (scuba diving) scenes.

Bunching up planes does look cool, whether it's done or not. BTW, don't the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels fly some pretty tight formations?

Goofs or not, I'll probably watch it. I love to watch fighter planes fly whether real life or the big screen.

 

[churchmouse]

True.

The helmet comment is that they probably used the helmets they did so the movie watchers could see their faces. They have done that in other space movies and movies containing underwater (scuba diving) scenes.

Bunching up planes does look cool, whether it's done or not. BTW, don't the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels fly some pretty tight formations?

Goofs or not, I'll probably watch it. I love to watch fighter planes fly whether real life or the big screen.

Years ago a friend of mine called me and said you need to get out here to the tower. He was an air traffic controller. I had access to restricted areas at the airport as a contractor so I rolled. There were 6 F-15's on the deck refueling and pilot downtime. I got there just in time for he and I to watch them roll out. They all did what he called a performance take off. Before they cleared the end of the runway they went vertical on full burners. G.O.N.E.
Man that was a site too see.

 

[rhino]

I musta missed that in thermodynamic/heat transfer/fluid flow class.

They must discuss that in the second semester. HAHA!

It was counterintuitive to me that acoustics (essentially determined by the length of the combustion chamber) would dominate other aspects of the high speed reacting flow that can induce and affect turbulence. It would be interesting to study a similar situation for a SCRAMJET in which the combustion process occurs when the flow is at Mach numbers higher than 1. But I digress . . .

I've already been informed by SWMBO that we're going to see the movie (whether I like it or not).

 

[rhino]

Years ago a friend of mine called me and said you need to get out here to the tower. He was an air traffic controller. I had access to restricted areas at the airport as a contractor so I rolled. There were 6 F-15's on the deck refueling and pilot downtime. I got there just in time for he and I to watch them roll out. They all did what he called a performance take off. Before they cleared the end of the runway they went vertical on full burners. G.O.N.E.
Man that was a site too see.

I've never seen a plane with thrust that exceeds its weight fly straight upward, but I want to! Those F-15s were freakin' fast (for American planes).