The same could be said for ANY modern fighter with FBW and the likes nowadays. I’m not familiar with the Typh’s systems, but I do know that double/triple/quadruple redundancy is common on electric fighters.

For example, the X-29 would fall out of the sky if it’s FBW failed, so it had a total of four identical computers; if one failed or malfunctioned, the other three could pick up the slack. You would need to have all four computers malfunction during a single flight for you to have a catastrophic failure like that, which is extremely unlikely barring an EMP pulse during a nuclear war (and at that point you have bigger things to worry about). But dont quote me on that…

Oh Right, thanks..

I still find it a stunning machine!

You can tell when the Typhoon is about to take off at airshows, you hear a rumble and you look on the runway and see full heat, straight into a vertical take off, I suppose the pilot does pull so G.

I don’t know if this is true, but apparently if any of the computers fail in the Typhoon it’s going to crash. Unless the person who told me this was chatting rubbish! Don’t they have a back up system?

Being a design optimized for landing on an aircraft carrier, F-18 will naturally be an excellent performer at airshows where extreme maneuvers are performed at low speed. Landing on a carrier requires lots of lift at slow approach speeds and excellent roll/pitch/yaw control. F-18 gets its lift by using a long span, straight wing with leading and trailing edge flaps to turn as much air as possible (turning air generates lift). Roll/pitch/yaw control is provided by the huge horizontal tails and rudders.

Unfortunately, the features that allow the F-18 to safely land on a carrier also hurt its flight performance. The long span, straight wing and huge tails are extremely draggy (aft fuselage flow separation doesn’t help either). Because of drag, it doesn’t accelerate well, has a limited top speed and shorter range when compared to its contemporaries. The performance limitations are not an issue when the F-18 is used in its original role, a light attack airplane to replace the A-7 and F-4. It does hinder its newly assigned role as fleet defense interceptor because some adversaries can run right past and the poor ol’ F-18 doesn’t have the speed to catch them (Hopefully AEGIS will).

Thanks for that, Very useful 😀