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Old 02-13-11, 02:24 PM   #1
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Good landing. At least he had a good bit of height to play with on the way down. Allowed him to get into a good approach. F-16s are not the most glidable of aircraft, in fact, not many modern aircraft are IIRC, althoughone would have thought with its large wing surface the F-22 wouldn't be too shabby.
As CCIP says the onboard computers do a lot too, particularly with flight controls, if all of the onboard computers had died with the engine...well...that probably would have been the end of the F-16, thankfully there's two backups IIRC. Does make you appreiciate the Warthog a fair bit, or the early Hogs at least with their manual backup systems. Computer gone? No problem, just bring her in old school. Then again, F-16s weren't exactly designed to be as durable as the Hog.
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