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Originally Posted by ERA Chas
OK Lude, you da real deal. If you did not return previous meals at 9G you can handle a Twisted Wedge lil Cobra.
Thanks for the explaination-I knew there were many variables involved. It's OK to know that 1.1 is Friggen Fast. Now I'll test your patience one more time: Can you explain the "Block" designations of Eagles (and the other rocketship variants)-like "Block 50, Block 35, etc?
Must admit, I'm a closet Tomcat, Hornet and especially FLANKER freak. (I know, they're the bad guys...)
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Block designations are like model years for cars, various changes & updates become standard with a new block. Of course, revisions are constant, especially when a platform is still in production, but the block designation gives the "owner" or maintainer a baseline of what is included. I believe the F-16 I rode in was a block 50 (newest at that time). The easiest way to tell was the the air intake was made MUCH larger to accommodate the bigger engines in the later variants. The intakes were big enough for several people to crawl inside. Big enough that I knew of one crew chief that got too close while the engine was running & got sucked in. His web belt got hung up on the vertical pitot inside the intake, and that was what saved his life. Some tools were sucked off his belt into the engine & shut it down.
I've Hijacked my own thread now.
