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- From: tnielsen@ems.cdc.com (Terry Nielsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: F-16 flight characteristics
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 22:15:48 GMT
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- In article <BzBA1v.1q5@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, execu!dont@uunet.UU.NET (Don Thompson) writes:
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- |> From execu!dont@uunet.UU.NET (Don Thompson)
- |>
- |>
- |> Please excuse the cross post but you folks in sci.military might
- |> have better sources of info than we in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.
- |>
- |> There are several questions concerning the F-16:
- |>
- |> 1. What are it's stability characteristics? Is a fly-by-wire
- |> system required to maintain control or is it a value added package?
- |>
- |> 2. In the event of a flame out and subsequent failure to restart,
- |> what emergeny electrical power provisions are there?
- |>
- There are three generators on the F16, two are powered from the engine,
- the third is an auxillary power unit.
-
- |> 3. If there is APU, what fuel is used to power it?
- |>
- The APU is powered by hydrozine (sp?). It can provide about 15 minutes
- of power to critical electrical systems. I don't know much about
- hydrozine, except that extreme caution seems to be used when
- refueling the hydrozine.
-
- |> If you have some authoritative sources of information that answers
- |> these questions, we would much appreciate your response.
-
- I am familiar with the electrical systems on the F16, but I don't
- know much about it's flight capabilities. You can email me, but I don't read
- the pc.games newsgroup.
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