I think anything connected to WWII Luftwaffe aircraft, are simply put “exotic”, to say the least.
Luckily I have seen in the air “black six” also the 109E when she was here in Canada, & at Hamilton the 190 & 262.
But imagine being at an airshow & hearing this. ????????????
This is a very sad incident my condolences to the pilots family and friends. Fortunately incidents like this these days are so rare when you think of the number of commercial airliners flying around the world. There is though the argument of having two pilots in the cockpit, true that computers fly aeroplanes they can take off and land themselves anywhere in the world, all it needs is a human to guide it from the terminal to the runway.
But and its a big but, technology can go wrong just as humans can, so there is always a back up. In my mind the idea of cutting cost’s by having one pilot in the cockpit is going over the top its unthinkable. Technology and pilots very rarely but sometimes do go wrong, what about mother nature she can also throw surprises and challenges into the equation in most cases would take a human to deal with this situation.
Would you feel comfortable going on a long haul flight say in an A380 with one ore even no pilot in the cockpit?
250 flying hours in MS FSX might help too….if someone in the passenger tube has it.
I am glad that F-35 is only marginally slower when flying from Ugolny ( Russia ) to Nome ( Alaska ) than a Saab J-35 Draken according to Microsoft FSX. :highly_amused:
X-15 is 4 times faster than A-10 and F-35. :angel:
Ta-152C is 15 minutes slower.
F-104 and F-22 are the fastest jets…not even a Mig-21 can beat them ( though I haven’t tried Mig-31 ).
That’s completely irrelevant. Fighter jets just don’t need to computer power of an iPhone. A fighter jet’s CPU doesn’t need to generate 3D graphics, nor play music, nor any of the trivial but computer intensive crap phones do nowadays.
Buy a SONY ( xperia ) phone…seems to work just fine…and they haven’t violated thousands of patents like the few other brands have.
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