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From: yann@ai.toronto.edu (Yann le Cun)
Subject: Re: JET | Supra 2400 | Multi-Tasking Hard Drives
Message-ID: <88Mar15.184012est.26999@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto, AI group
References: <4578@garfield.UUCP>
Date: 	Tue, 15 Mar 88 16:12:19 EST

In article <9280@sunybcs.UUCP> ugmiker@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Reilly) writes:
>In article <4578@garfield.UUCP> joseph@garfield.UUCP (Joseph Dawson) writes:
>
>>BUG you CAN'T make the F16 go straight up for ever.  It should be 
>>able to do this because it has a lot of thrust. 
>>Joseph Dawson
>
>sorry, I don't think ANY airplane can go "straight up" for ever, there are just
>too many stress factors to control, not to mention the fact that for a pilot
>to handle/survive going straight up at mach 2+ for an extended amount of time 
>he would have to be able to withstand a very high G count.....

I don't see why the G count should be high if you go straight up....
You can go straight up at constant speed, in which case G=1.

Anyway, It is possible with the F18 in JET to remain nose up at constant
altitude WITH THE ENGINE TURNED OFF (!!!!), it is easier to do it if you
look at the plane from the control tower on the carrier.

These "fly-by-wire" planes are really too easy to fly.

Yann le Cun                            yann@ai.toronto.edu, yann@ai.toronto.cdn
AI Group, Dept of Computer Science     yann%ai.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net
University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4  {uunet,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!yann
