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Landing speeds for naval aircraft?
What are the carrier landing speeds for:
The F-14 Tomcat? The F-18A Hornet? The F-18E/F Super Hornet? I'm working on an article about the Space Shuttle and I want to address the commonly repeated claim that the shuttle is a "mistake" because its technology is being abandoned. I'd like to compare it to swing-wing technology. During the 1960s, the swing-wing was the rage in new aircraft design and it ended up in quite a few aircraft such as the F-111, the F-14, the MiG-23, Tu-22, MiG-27, the B-1, and the Russsian Tu-160. But the Tu-160, designed in the early 1980s, appears to have been the last swing-wing aircraft. What I'm trying to explore is why that is. Why was this technology really popular for a couple of decades and then phased out? I don't think you can say that better airfoil or wing technology replaced it. It's just that requirements changed and the swing-wing was a solution that no longer fit the existing problem set. But I'm willing to be proven wrong. D |
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