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Offline jr2

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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
Prolly not... Boyd was just trying to compile all of that into something useful that could be taught.  He probably used those sources, as well as others.

 

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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
I think it is not about compiling 'all' of that, since the FAF system is the 'all' by itself! I see Boyd formulated the equations for energy-maneuverability theorem and then pushed it all forwards by urging the USAF to build fighters that do not lose energy as efficiently as the earlier ones. So, Boyd's contribution is in the aircraft building, not in the tactics or in the strategies. You could also say teaching, but the stuff was really taught and applied at least (meaning that someone else might have figured it before 1940s) 30 years before Boyd wrote it. Maybe 'popularizing' would be a better word.

More so, take a look at the current Swarming doctrine. This is a doctrine that US armed forces use against Iraqi opposition in current war. It is again the same stuff which was used here 70 years ago, the same stuff which was applied in your Independence War and in early Napoleon's wars, the same stuff Mongols used when they started their raids and the same stuff Sun Tzu wrote in the old China etc. etc. etc.

So in short, there is nothing new in the doctrine, it is simply common sense and it should happen by itself in a well-trained army. And it is effective as the beginning of the current war showed! The only problem is that the doctrine was never intended for lengthened occupation if the occupied territories proved unwilling to co-operate! That is the reason there is not enough troops in Iraq at the moment.

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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
...right.. "popularizing" would be the correct term.  I know he compiled all of this research & stuff and tried to get the AF to see the benefits... with limited success.

 

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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
Holy cow! I definetly raise my hat to the pilot of that F15, GJ :yes:
Habeeb it...

 

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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
Interesting the course this thread has taken... :lol:  from pilot skills, to avionics, to the A-10, to gattling guns, to usefulness of specific plane types, to aerodynamics...
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Re: Israeli Pilot Safely Lands F-15 With Only One Wing
Mars, random beamage with no useful post = no. Post deleted. And hey Gortef! :)