aircraft

For background, the aircraft that he's standing in front of is AA-1, which is the first F-35 aircraft.

Speed is life refers to any aircraft and the ability to trade speed for altitude.

Well, flying in aircraft mode means it can go much higher (12000 feet) and much faster (250 knots cruise speed), so it spends less time in threat areas.

Even if you choose a civilian aircraft and militarize it, you're looking at a decade where you have no medium lift.

The reasons why 4th generation aircraft have been able to last so long are numerous.

None of which exactly inspire confidence when it comes to something like operating aircraft.

I just watched the latest Mythbusters, where Adam went up in a U-2 spy aircraft to 70k feet.

Any aircraft the Chinese make will presumably be put to some examination, some day.

One thing that constrains a lot of the older aircraft is electrical power.

Point-to-point wired aircraft just get really difficult to improve past a certain point.

And running away is not what these aircraft are designed to do.

You can outturn your enemy in a wider portion of the flight envelope, in an area where fighter aircraft were traditionally not the greatest.

So the question of "can we succeed against other types of aircraft that we will encounter?" will be examined in great detail.