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NVM. Moved to its own thread...

Are you familiar with the Flight Sim forum?
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=216

D'oh. Forgot about that.

Oh well its late and I just got off work, my brain is all a mess...

Now you know how I feel all the time. :doh:

That's why we get along so well:doh:

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Originally Posted by darius359au (Post 1546444)

The F-111 here had the tail hooks for carrier landings ,there was a couple of times where they set up the arrester cables on the main runway at Amberly to stop them when there was a problem.

Plenty of military jets have tailhooks, even though they're not Navy, like for example the F-104, F-15, F-16, F-22 etc.
What you described above is a standard emergency procedure and not limited to the 'Vark.

The tail hook is used with all these jets when something goes wrong during take off or landing, like, engine failure (take off), hydraulics failure (brakes), gear configuration errors, icy runways, or the drag chute cannot be used because of the crosswind component exceeding the drag chute limit etc.

There will be a barrier / cables of some sort being set up or activated on the runway which the airplane is supposed to run into or get "hooked" by.

Like this F-16:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jCNc8FnK6c

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1546924)

I know, I just like busting the balls of all our resident Harrier lovers.

Now that's debatable. Just in number of conflicts the both are fairly equal; Vietnam and SE Asia, Operation El Dorado Canyon, Desert Storm, and Bosnia (EF-111). However Vietnam's air war was on a scale only duplicated in Desert Storm.

If you compare their first combat operations the F-111 flew 4,000 missions with only six losses. I know the FAA lost 6 Sea Harriers in the Falklands but I doubt they flew anything close to 4,000 missions, it would probably be a couple wars before they reached that.

In the Gulf war 84 F-111s dropped 80% of the LGBs employed and had the highest success rate of any Coalition aircraft (3.2 to 1).

No problem about the ball busting :DL but your reference toward the number of missions flown in combat is about those flown by the Aussies, yes?

Or are we straying away from the respective comparator countries (UK and Austaralia) again? :hmmm:

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1547599)

I think he's talking about US missions and or both US and AU missions?

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Originally Posted by TarJak (Post 1547602)

I think he's talking about US missions and or both US and AU missions?

So do I....you ain't got enough gas to complete that many missions :DL

Mind, neither do we now :-?

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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1547613)

So do I....you ain't got enough gas to complete that many missions :DL

Mind, neither do we now :-?

That's why we are always going to war... to get the gas to go to war...

... wait.... :-?

:O:

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1547662)

That's why we are always going to war... to get the gas to go to war...

... wait.... :-?

:O:

We don't need war for that... just a good tamale pie. :salute:

http://www.billsrecipeideas.net/Tamale%20pie.jpg