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Old 11-14-2014, 09:16 AM   #1
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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.

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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

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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)

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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

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