Well keep telling yourself that. :rolleyes:

You obviously dont know any swedish fighter pilots, that’s for sure. If they were half as immature as those USAF/USN pilots, they’d never been allowed to fly in the RSwAF, period.

http://www.alert5.com/2006/04/fa-18f-guns-down-f-22a.html

A Falcon, a Hornet, an ex-Tomcat and a Strike Eagle pilot have commented on the picture.

Interesting read.

Surely there must be some requirements on mental maturity for fighter pilots in the US? :confused: Some of those guys act like a couple of 5 year olds!

again there are others who dont think highly of its features…

And I’m trying to be realistic about it. The F-22 is just an airplane. Sure it has some excellent features. But the Super Hornet is also very manouverable. I just don’t see why there should be a reason to doubt the HUD shots. That’s just ridiculous IMO.

Here’s a link to a loadout chart of the Gripen. 🙂

http://www.gripen.com/download/18.86359107460425368000879/Packing_Iron.pdf

Robban,

What’s the source of those instability rates?

Thanks.

It was a topic in a Swedish airplane magazine called “Flygrevyn”. But it was probably 10 years ago. They compared the three eurocanards. I have no idea how accurate the numbers are though. I remember reading that the Rafale was spared form serious accidents because it wasn’t as unstable as for example the Gripen. Probably just speculations. But it sounds logical. Perhaps the French has increased the instability of the Rafale over time?

which plane is more unstable???

In the Swedish language there is something called “dubbleringshastighet”. I don’t know the correct translation is in english. But this word is used when discussion the amount of instability built into the different plattforms.

The numbers are as follows.

Rafale – 0.7 seconds

Gripen – 0.4 seconds

Typhoon – 0.3 seconds

A stable airplane needs to be forced into a turn by applying negative lift on the tail causing it to pitch. An unstable airframe always wants to pitch up or down. A computer is needed to balance the aircraft so that it doesn’t depart from flight. If a Rafale for example starts an unwanted pitch and the computers doesn’t do anything about it, the pitch rate will double for every 0.7 seconds. For theTyphoon it is 0.3 seconds. Meaning that the Typhoon is much more unstable. And it’s computers must react much faster to stop an unwanted pitch up.

Man, I suck at this. Hope I made myself clear enough. 🙂

the JA-37 is the end result of the Mirage III success and a solution to fix the Mirage III flaws and shortcomings.

Hmm, I think the experiences with the shortcommings of the Draken, rather than that of the Mirage III, led to some of the aerodynamical sollutions for the Viggen. 😉