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F-14 was a very complex and expensive to maintain. A beauty, but an Hangar Queen in her last years. Maybe by "peers" the author meant it was one of the "teen"
by galgot 4y ago
F-14 was a very complex and expensive to maintain. A beauty, but an Hangar Queen in her last years.
Maybe by "peers" the author meant it was one of the "teen" fighters serie,
F-14, F-15, F-16 and F/A-18.
Like there was the "century" fighters, F-102, F-104, F-105, F-106.
- muro 4y agoAny reason for not including the F-101?
- pxmpxm 4y agoFun point I read about this topic while back is that planes essentially cost the same amount of money per pound in the air, so building anything with two times the MTOW is an inherent disadvantage.
- rjsw 4y agoApparently, a comment on the TSR-2 [1] was that it was too heavy. The problem was that the manufacturer misinterpreted this and instead of just going away and designing a smaller aircraft they spent a lot of money trying to make the existing one lighter. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAC_TSR-2
- tengwar2 4y agoIt's not exactly practical to throw away a design and start on completely different aircraft! Also consider that the size was fixed by the fuel requirements and the wavelength of the sideways-looking radar. The second point was a dominant consideration in the earlier competition which led to the Avro 730 selection.