Keep an eye on the sky tomorrow

[Rockport24]

so relate this to Top Gun for me since that is my entire frame of reference for fighter planes - those were F-14A Tomcats in that movie, correct?

[Guppy]

Past weekend baptism of my latest grnd son, the God farther (sons good friend) is a navigator on the F18,, A more patriotic guy would be hard to find, proud to know him.
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[Liv2Fish]

The blurb I heard on BZ today said these jets can fly at twice the speed of sound? That' like 1500 mph or 25 miles per second.

I can't imagine going from the tarmac at Otis to NCY in something like 8 minutes as they did on 9/11. I have a buddy who's a jet mechanic at Otis and was there that day for the scramble. He said in a blink they were gone and out of ear shot.

[piemma]

Originally Posted by Liv2Fish

The blurb I heard on BZ today said these jets can fly at twice the speed of sound? That' like 1500 mph or 25 miles per second.

That's what they tell the public. It's WAY more than that.

The old A6s in Nam could do Mach 2 and that was almost 50 years ago.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

so relate this to Top Gun for me since that is my entire frame of reference for fighter planes - those were F-14A Tomcats in that movie, correct?

Yep - F14 Tomcats

Originally Posted by BEETLE

if they stuck to the original flight plan, I figured they should have been flying over MV about 20- 30 min. after I saw them.
I'm 13 miles from the city and heard the roar - and they were going slow. Cool stuff. I hear their something like $20-25 Mil. each ??

Nope - 20-25 mi8llion each in 1990 dollars for C models like the ones we are talking about. 110 mil each today for the deriviatives of the F15E Strike Eagle (bigger, more advanced)

Originally Posted by piemma

That's what they tell the public. It's WAY more than that.

The old A6s in Nam could do Mach 2 and that was almost 50 years ago.

A6 might break Mach 1 in a dive and might even not break apart