Most people would have absolutely no idea. They think that fighter jets are just a tube with wings and flappy bits that make it turn lol. There are so many engineering marvels in just a single airframe.
Neat! I had no idea that the F-100 used gravity actuated slats too... mostly because I've only seen one that was operational. Well, looking at my pics of N2011V at the 2015 Airventure, I see that they are deployed at take-off, so I guess I just forgot about them. Part of the fun of looking at aircraft is seeing all of the features that were fixes to problems of the era. Slats are a bit obvious, but as noted in another video, things like vortex generators aren't as obvious. Then there are the really subtle details, like the "sugar scoop" fairing and the "single surface" rudder on the Skyhawk that were fixes to problems discovered early in the aircraft's development. I wonder if modern jets avoid these sorts of fixes through better design tools?
Modern jets, and aircraft in general, have the luxury of computer/simulation modeling. You can create the entire aircraft on a computer and put it into a simulation that will tell you everything you need to know. Speeds up the process to an incredible degree. Instead of drawing up plans, creating a scale model, putting it into a wind tunnel, changing whatever needs to be changed, draw up new plans, new scale model, wind tunnel again, on and on until you build the first test airframe, find out you need to change things because this doesn't fit there and that doesn't fit here. Then all the ground tests before finally flying etc etc(you get the point). You can draw up plans, do all the tedious stuff on a computer, and solve all the problems that would arise before even building the scale model for wind tunnel testing.
@@RedTail1-1 true... I don't know about computational fluid dynamics, but I used to run circuit simulations in the early 90's that I had to run overnight. Now, I imagine it would run in a minute on my laptop. Having said that... I used to work near the wind tunnels at McDonnell Douglas then, and it was always interesting to hear the shrieks from the compressed air.. might have been a trans-sonic test? It was a fascinating place to work!
Thanks for a great video! I have one comment though, according to my understanding, vortex generators are doing the exact opposite of "smoothing out the air on the wing" ;-)
The VG’s will throw a series little tornados over the wing which is a smoother flow over the airfoil than the otherwise “burbling” air which would result from them not being there
Most people would have absolutely no idea. They think that fighter jets are just a tube with wings and flappy bits that make it turn lol. There are so many engineering marvels in just a single airframe.
They’re really incredible machines!
Good video subscriber gained
Thank you so much, I sure appreciate that.
you are extremely underrated mate, hope you reach more people
I sure appreciate the kind words! I’ll keep pumping out the vids and see what happens!
Are you flying the F100 as well ? Could you make a more detailed Video about that one ? How many airworthy F100 are still around ?
Neat! I had no idea that the F-100 used gravity actuated slats too... mostly because I've only seen one that was operational. Well, looking at my pics of N2011V at the 2015 Airventure, I see that they are deployed at take-off, so I guess I just forgot about them. Part of the fun of looking at aircraft is seeing all of the features that were fixes to problems of the era. Slats are a bit obvious, but as noted in another video, things like vortex generators aren't as obvious. Then there are the really subtle details, like the "sugar scoop" fairing and the "single surface" rudder on the Skyhawk that were fixes to problems discovered early in the aircraft's development. I wonder if modern jets avoid these sorts of fixes through better design tools?
Modern jets, and aircraft in general, have the luxury of computer/simulation modeling. You can create the entire aircraft on a computer and put it into a simulation that will tell you everything you need to know. Speeds up the process to an incredible degree.
Instead of drawing up plans, creating a scale model, putting it into a wind tunnel, changing whatever needs to be changed, draw up new plans, new scale model, wind tunnel again, on and on until you build the first test airframe, find out you need to change things because this doesn't fit there and that doesn't fit here. Then all the ground tests before finally flying etc etc(you get the point). You can draw up plans, do all the tedious stuff on a computer, and solve all the problems that would arise before even building the scale model for wind tunnel testing.
I’m sure they do! Computers can model out a lot of the issues ahead of time!
@@RedTail1-1 true... I don't know about computational fluid dynamics, but I used to run circuit simulations in the early 90's that I had to run overnight. Now, I imagine it would run in a minute on my laptop. Having said that... I used to work near the wind tunnels at McDonnell Douglas then, and it was always interesting to hear the shrieks from the compressed air.. might have been a trans-sonic test? It was a fascinating place to work!
Thanks for a great video! I have one comment though, according to my understanding, vortex generators are doing the exact opposite of "smoothing out the air on the wing" ;-)
The VG’s will throw a series little tornados over the wing which is a smoother flow over the airfoil than the otherwise “burbling” air which would result from them not being there
When the Blue Angels flew A-4s, I believe they pinned the slats in - no surprises.