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Parachutes work great, problem is those behind you don't care much for them.
When in T/H tapping the brake a bit will have it downshift too, which works well when going down a grade. I haven't towed the IKE with the 10 speed and Gen2, but did with the Gen 1 and 6 speed, WITH 3.15 gearing and it did very well both up and down, which is surprising considering how high the rear gearing was. The 6.7 Diesel with 6 speed though, that beast brakes very well down grades.
Speaking of parachutes, since we're getting power chin spoilers on the upcoming model, maybe the next trick can be a huge hidden turbo wing on the roof that elevates to a steep angle for air braking.
Last edited by Flamingtaco; Sep 25, 2020 at 12:22 PM.
Two games came out in 1998 that were all I played though the '00's, one was Falcon 4.0. Spent so much time on it I actually got consistently good at landing well before the landing gear patch. If my truck was as durable and fast (and fun!) as an F16, I'd spend hundred of hours a month just practice driving it as well. BTW, that is not an F16 in your image.
Treated as a red-headed step child by other fighter squadrons, the F16 is small, light, fast, cheap, and as effective at dogfighting as it is with standoff and conventional munitions.
Modern targeting systems permit you to drop conventional munitions during a climb for increased target distance, like an underhand toss, except the toss is as fast as an overhand. Let's you break off earlier to avoid ground fire hardened targets, or avoid RADAR line of sight by remaining under geographical cover. F16 pilots practice this, a lot.
Also, it's one of the few fighters capable of immediately out falling munitions dropped at level flight, without inverting. Agile as hell that bird of prey is.
This is an F16... the airbrakes are just inboard of the rear horizontal stabilizers, in the full open position here:
The pano roof already comes with a mod for moving out of position, all on it's own!
In other news, the NHTSA will probably start applying safety requirements to sunroofs in the next few years. They have developed a test for them, with the main focus being prevention from being ejected. More expensive laminated glass will be required to meet the testing requirements. I suspect that this will result in the same becoming a requirement for side glass as well eventually.
Hyundai is close to having sunroof air bags in their vehicles.
Yes I know, I started looking for F-16, typed out F-16 then realized the F-15 was what I was thinking of and didn't edit the plane. F-16 air brakes are on either side of the tail, not what I was looking for.
