Top Gun: Maverick
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- Fastest unmanned aircraft
The NASA X-43A hypersonic plane holds the record for the fastest free-flying, unmanned aircraft, reaching a top speed of Mach 9.6 (7,310 mph) in 2003. The X-43 was developed to test scramjet engine technologies and explore hypersonic flight.
- Fastest piloted aircraft
The NASA X-15 holds the record for the fastest piloted airplane, reaching a top speed of Mach 6.70 (4,520 mph). The X-15 was used to test hypersonic flight principles and was deployed from under a B-52 "mothership".
The speed isn't a problem...it's the acceleration required to get there. You can accelerate at 1g and get to Mach 10 in about 20 minutes. The SR-72 is rumored to be capable of Mach 6.
Thats what I thought. The human body would disintegrate if you were flying that fast and had to eject. It could only be done over 40K feet
“If you had to eject” is the key point you left out of the first post 😁
On the point…once his aircraft started breaking up he’d decelerate rather rapidly so we don’t know what spead he ejected as it wasn’t shown 😄
Don’t F with Top Gun: Maverick Jimmy
I'll f with it all I want. While entertaining, it is complete bullshit.
Maybe they used The Force.
Mach 25 on space shuttle re-entry
The ISS travels at Mach 25 and astronauts step outside to work all the time so altitude is the determining factor.
Perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about, but I think we are debating apples and oranges.
Movie was a stupid Star Wars rip off.
Come at me.
Come at me.
We going to start picking apart Hollywood?
There is nothing resembling real life in the movie. You guys can jerk and squirt to Tom Cruise all you want. NTTIAWT
Probably my biggest complaint about that movie. For some much effort that went into the authenticity of the first and the second, the complete disregard for reality in that scene almost makes it non-cannon. Some goofy spoof before the real movie started as it really had no bearing on the plot anyways.
Honestly when I watched it I thought he was dead and that was the setup for the next generation of fighter jocks. I purposefully didn't watch any of the trailers so I had no idea what it was going to be about or how big of a role Tom Cruise actually had this time.
Honestly when I watched it I thought he was dead and that was the setup for the next generation of fighter jocks. I purposefully didn't watch any of the trailers so I had no idea what it was going to be about or how big of a role Tom Cruise actually had this time.
Top Gun is far from realistic. But it does appeal to the simpleton masses.
Go to an airshow. Reality is way better.
Go to an airshow. Reality is way better.
One more time...Mach 10 is absolutely not a problem. The astronauts on the ISS are traveling at more than twice that speed. And ejecting at Mach 10 can - depending on the altitude - exert less dynamic pressure on a human body than ejecting at Mach 1 at sea level. The movie Darkstar is capable of flying at 120,000 ft where the air density is 0.4% of sea level. Pilots have ejected at Mach 1 at sea level. They survived. Ejecting at Mach 10at 120,000 feet would be easier on the body.
The actual problem with that kind of ejection is heat. Even at that altitude, you're going to hit something like 3,500 C. The pressure suit would protect against some of that but any engineer designing a vehicle capable of Mach 10 is going to design an ejection system that would take that into account. It's not mentioned in the movie but there are existing planes where the cockpit ejects as a capsule. The F-111 had that kind of system where rocket engines carried the cockpit away from the aircraft until it reached a speed and altitude suitable for the deployment of a parachute and the entire capsule landed on airbags.
Bottom line - there's no inherent problem with the acceleration, speed, or ejection from a Mach 10 capable plane.
The actual problem with that kind of ejection is heat. Even at that altitude, you're going to hit something like 3,500 C. The pressure suit would protect against some of that but any engineer designing a vehicle capable of Mach 10 is going to design an ejection system that would take that into account. It's not mentioned in the movie but there are existing planes where the cockpit ejects as a capsule. The F-111 had that kind of system where rocket engines carried the cockpit away from the aircraft until it reached a speed and altitude suitable for the deployment of a parachute and the entire capsule landed on airbags.
Bottom line - there's no inherent problem with the acceleration, speed, or ejection from a Mach 10 capable plane.
It is science.
- Air density
The air density at the altitude required to reach Mach 10 would be so thin that a person ejected from a plane would be killed instantly.
- Re-entering the atmosphere
To return to ground level, a person would need to re-enter the atmosphere, which would subject them to the same strain as a space shuttle.
- Temperature
The temperatures at Mach 10 would be extremely high, approaching 4,000°F at the nose tip of a vehicle.
Goddamn it Jim. The movie came out like 2 years ago. Nobody fvcking cares.
Call it an after action review. It is a bullshite movie.
I am sure the pilots in the movie had auto adjustable pressurized suits so as they got near mach 8 9 and 10 it kept all the blood up in their brain, heart, and torso. Just spitballing here
The science says it is all bullshit. But if it made your wanker turn a bit, good for you.
It wasn’t the 60 year-old O-6 that did it for you?
It’s a movie made to sell popcorn and see it on the big screen and pull people back to the theater. Yes there are a lot of faults but it’s still entertaining. The first movie had many faults not completely obvious. After working on F-14A Avionics and spending 5 years at Miramar where the first movie was filmed I can point out all the faults but the first and second one are still fun to watch!
Why not both? Top Gun Maverick and air shows are both awesome
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