The Fighter World Experience!
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2023
- We toured Fighter World at Williamtown, NSW, with ex-test pilot Ron Haack as our expert guide. It was an awesome visit and we'd like to thank Ron and all the crew at Fighter World for making our visit such a great experience. The unusually busy day at the airbase next door did make it challenging for our audio recordings, but what a great atmosphere!
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What a great interview thank you 👏
We used to tow that Mirage up to 76SQN for functions etc. I sat in the cockpit and I barely fitted. It is tiny. As is the radar and its scope. When you see how thin the wings are and the very small cross-sectional area of the fuselage, you realise these things were built for speed. They were insanely loud and took-off and landed very fast.
I recall reading an article about RAAF training in F/A-18s and how they bested the US Navy in mock dogfights, principally because they practiced it a lot.
Love Rons proud story telling , especially the 40 second surfing thing, 😅👌👏👏. I'm always amazed by mid air refuelling 😳👌. When Ron says quite exciting, does he actually mean quite nerve wracking? 🤔😅
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With all due respect to Ron, he did get a few things wrong on the armament side of things for the F/A-18. The 20mm M61A1 gun didn't shoot at 4000 rounds per minute to "save ammo". The rate of fire was selected depending on whether you were shooting in air to air or air to ground mode. In air-to-air mode, the rate of fire was 6000 rounds per minute or 100 rounds per second. The reason being is that you want to saturate the air with large lumps of metal to increase your probability of hit. In air to ground mode the rate of fire was 4000 rounds per minute. Presumably so as to limit ricochets and likely because the target wasn't moving all that fast in comparison and you could potentially come back around for another go.
Absolutely fantastic video, its been over 5 years since I last visited Fighter World, when I lived on the Central Coast, now after seeing the added planes and facility I will be making a special trip next time I am down from Hervey bay, once again thank you for a top video
Mirage111O retired in 1989. Loved working on it!
Great video with fantastic commentary!
Well done Ron. 👏👏
Excellent video, and talk by Ron. Well done.
Great museum. Visit the USAF museum in Dayton, Ohio sometime. They have four display buildings crammed with pre-WWI aircraft to the latest aircraft and rockets available. When we visited it took us most of a day just to walk through.❤
An excellent video, and very informative. Thanks very much to all involved.
I miss the sandwiches most of all, the B-53 was epic.
Awesome vid n awesome display👍👍I wouldn’t mind having go simulator of F18.
Do you know if there is a CT/4A there? I tried contacting the museum about it but had no luck getting through to them
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