It was extremely fast for it’s time.

It was the first mach 2 fighter in service.

Pilot account (incude 4Vs6 (another Delta)):
http://users.bestweb.net/~kcoyne/f104story.htm

the term “buffeting” is ill-chosen in tht case. More sensitive to wind gust is what they shld hve say.

As wing area increase, variation of total lift is less damped by the weight of the airplane. Also, bigger wing means increased wet surface that means more time to regain the speed lost in wind gust.

Hence, basically your plane oscillate more in the vertical and horizontal plans as the wing is bigger for a given thrust and weight.

Hi!
I found some pictures of the Malaysian A.F.
http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21003
All the best!
Alex

Great shot of a Ca-27 (Avon Sabre with 30mm Aden Canon)

They were said to be the higher flying Sabre

what are they developing?
actually, i’m not certain, but i was reading about BAE’s development of GPS-independent (i.e. with jamming or dead satellites) navigation methods that using the video system extrapolated the location of all objects/features in field of view, compared to known location at beginning of flight and other objects simultaneously in field of view, and constantly derives the aircraft’s own location from all of this. i don’t really know if that is specific to taranis though, as opposed to mantis which has also been tested in AU.

It’s an “old” navigational mode developed ard the Raf requirements: to be able to penetrate hostile airspace at low alt (50ft) in a totally passive mode (no GPS, no TFR, no radar alimeter – only image comparison).

I thought this had been integrated ijn the Scalp/Apache but I might be wrong

Maybe someone should start an F-4 and Draken thread, seeing as how this is a Mirage III and F-104 thread.

At least the Drak (a superb aeroplane by the way) won’t hve out accelerated the Mirage.

However High alpha +better roll rate-> Ok, the Drak had the upper hand on this

hve you read the sources of that wiki art ? That does not look trustworthy

IIIVs104 is really an interesting debate. It’s a mock up of the supersonic dogfights of tommorrow. There shld be a thread dedicated to this.