• New Thunderbirds aircraft revealed!

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 2:34 am**

Who says the VTB won't be in the running to fly these baby's!

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 7:08 am**

Haha, awesome.
Well as long as you had the HUD and some MFCD's, you guys would be great flying them!!!

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:34 pm**

Gawd, I hate those aircraft...

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:12 pm**

I can imagine one hell of a sneak pass...

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:21 pm**

It would the slowest sneak pass and one boring flat show; no inverted flight.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:43 pm**

Well that just about rules out everything. LOL

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:14 pm**

Panther wrote:It would the slowest sneak pass and one boring flat show; no inverted flight.

That's just a limit of the control system, isn't it? With a direct radio link rather than the satellite relay I'm guessing they use...they could have better real time control, allowing conventional control.

Or they could program the "lead" jet's flight path and tap into the research that's been going on in automated formation flight.

Heck, if a guy like me can make an RC helicopter keep itself airborne autonomously, then the guys with the big budgets had better be doing some amazing work.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:16 pm**

It's classified.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2010 9:46 pm**

Panther is so cool

I've always wanted to be able to say that and mean it. LOL