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  • Friday Night Flights: Fighter Friday

    Aircraft-Type Summary:
    Military aircraft are designed primarily for air-to-air combat against other aircraft, as opposed to bombers and attack aircraft, whose main mission is to attack ground targets. The hallmarks of a fighter are its speed, maneuverability, and small size relative to other combat aircraft.

    Many fighters have secondary ground-attack capabilities, and some are designed as dual-purpose fighter-bombers; often aircraft that do not fulfill the standard definition are called fighters. This may be for political or national security reasons, for advertising purposes, or other reasons.

    A fighter's main purpose is to establish air superiority over a battlefield. Since World War I, achieving and maintaining air superiority has been considered essential for victory in conventional warfare. The success or failure of a belligerent's efforts to gain air supremacy hinges on several factors including the skill of its pilots, the tactical soundness of its doctrine for deploying its fighters, and the numbers and performance of those fighters. Because of the importance of air superiority, since the dawn of aerial combat armed forces have constantly competed to develop technologically superior fighters and to deploy these fighters in greater numbers, and fielding a viable fighter fleet consumes a substantial proportion of the defense budgets of modern armed forces.


    Flight Plan: KSUU - KLSV - KEDW - KDMA


    Time-zone BreakDown: Friday, September 18th, 2015 at:
    9PM Eastern
    8PM Central
    7PM Mountain
    6PM Pacific

    ::Other Useful information::

    Target Airspeed: [475 kias cruise or higher]
    Average Cruising Altitude: 30,000 FT AGL (One leg, chosen at random will be extremely low elevation)
    Preferred Aircraft: Modern Military Fighter Aircraft. Freebies include the F-14 and F-35 from Dino Catteneo. Default military-loadout F-18 also acceptable. I will be in the F-14 or F-22.
    *"Modern" aircraft in this instance can apply to some fighter aircraft that may be no longer in service.

    Steam/Boxed/P3D users always welcome. I will be on Boxed for this flight.

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    Here are Some pics gents. http://imgbox.com/g/MnUivjB0Lx

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