Recent content by Murray B

There is a paper posted at http://firstmicroprocessor.com/documents/ap1-26-97.doc that indicates the F-14 had the first mutli-chip microprocessor so I expect that the F-16 didn’t have one. It does need something though because the wing is way to far forward to be flown manually. It is going...

Is that the site that wrote that the Avrocar was actually secret alien technology being developed in Canada by the U.S. military? Anyway, whoever they are they are the lying weasels that I am talking about since the accurate thrust is given in the 1957 Avro MK I brochure which every one of them...

You make another while denying the first. Are you a lawyer? My response was to our friend in U.S.A. who apparently thinks we have government run health care. We do not. We have government run health care insurance where the premiums are hidden in our taxes. Last I heard, before recent tax...

So, rather than arguing ad hominem why don’t you show us how to calculate the thrust? Some formulae are posted at NASA as I have indicated but you can use any source you like. The problem is this: If an aircraft achieves mach 1.76 with 48,000 lbs thrust then approximately how much thrust is...

An Ontarian is someone from the province of Ontario, Canada. Ontario was the location of Avro Canada with head office in Toronto and factory in Malton. It is also where $308 million taxpayers' dollars were given to Avro to develop a super aircraft that wound up being average. In the late...

It was good talking to you. To understand more about Diefenbaker please read the ’63 Time Magazine article at: Storm over Diefenbaker - TIME. The last paragraph on the first page indicates who conspired with whom against whom. Well, I did not say that the Mosquito had a low radar...

We are only a couple hundred engines away from building a whole herd of Mosquitos. Waynos has practically admitted that the F-22 was copied from it. Both made of radar absorbant material. Both with internal weapons bay. One fly-by-wire and the other fly-by-cable which is practically the same...

Sorry, but I no control over what the IMBD writes so you will have to take it up with them. The stuff is posted at: The Arrow (1997) (TV)I have heard some people in the U.S. trashing Diefenbaker so I know the propaganda has been effective outside of Canada. Nope, because this is supposed...

No, I had to come out of the closet because my flashlight batteries went dead. Are you saying I am a pro-US racist or an anti-US one. You would lose but I won’t take your money. According to IMDB about the mini-series ” The Arrow's first airing it gathered the second largest viewing...

Excellent. I was wondering why you did not think the Canadian Air Force’s “mach 1.96 = 1650 mph” was so funny. If you look at an airspeed vs mach vs altitude chart the problem becomes obvious because it is not on the chart. I had to crunch the equations and mach 1.96 = 1650 mph at about...

Do you believe that you are a jockey? You wrote: Since the F-106 was a single-seater this sounds like you were the jockey. The Arrow program was top secret and the information about it would have been compartmentalised. There is no reason to assume that the test pilots knew that the...

They are both Avro products too. Many British companies including Avro had problems building low-drag bisonic aircraft. The U.S. companies were more successful and I think this was partly because they had lower drag than their competition. The Phantom II is big and powerful but it also slides...

According to the Arrow Scrapbook page 15 the J-75's weight is given by Avro as "about 7,000lb". On page 33 they give the weight of the Iroquois at 4500 pounds. Note that they also overrate the thrust at 26,000 pounds when it was actually rated at 25,000. This is a 5,000 pound difference...

My choice is the Lightning since all the others are deltas and will lose too much speed in turns. My favorite aircraft of the time is the F-4 but it is not listed. In '65 a Mustang was a "girls car" and I would not have wanted one. The dream cars for guys in '65 would be more like Corvette...

Thank you, Foxriver, for posting the photos. The uniform I like the best is the first one from Equador. My father came from a former communist country so I find some of your statements confusing. As far as I know China is still a communist dictatorship. Communist countries do not...