Private F-5B Supersonic Flight?

FlyByWire22

FlyByWire22

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Maybe Bunk, or AMG can help me with this one. If you had enough money to buy yourself one of these, could you fly it supersonic?
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Not my picture. Wish it was my plane.
 
For civil ops, these are covered in 14 CFR 91.817, 819, and 821.

Military-wise, we had designated areas to do them, and had to log them in a "sonic boom log" back at base.
 
If you could get cleared to operate in one of the various offshore warning areas, or one of the several supersonic corridors in the restricted airspace system, I don't see why not. We did it all the time in the W291 and R2301W, as well as the W72 now that I'm out east.
 
There is a guy at my home airport that owns an F-5. Yes he has afterburners.

Unfortunately last I checked the plane was still in pieces.

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One of my lifetime goals is to break the sound barrier. I don't think I'll ever get to do it. :(
 
Truthfully, I don't know what the big deal some people have with supersonic flight. It's really very ho-hum and not noticable....apart from the very high fuel burn.
 
Ajax BU said:
One of my lifetime goals is to break the sound barrier. I don't think I'll ever get to do it. :(
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Well, if it makes you feel better the earth is moving around the sun at around 67,000 miles per hour. And if that's not fast enough we can talk about the speed of the sun within our galaxy, or even faster yet is how fast our galaxy is moving in relation to the rest of the known universe. Hauling butt we are!
 
My favorite physics question. If you're traveling at the speed of light, and you shine a laser straight ahead, how fast does the photon come out?
 
The pieces of it?

N104, a former RCAF CF-104D, sits in the old T-38 hangar at KIWA in the southeast PHX valley. Nice plane.
 
There are several companies that provide military aircraft to the US Gov't for dissimilar ACM. There's a company that owns several Kfir's, a guy in Florida who own a Hind, and a MIL-17, a company out of AZ that owns or owned a few A-4's. Then there's the company around that flies LJ35's as a weapons test platform and radar target. Get the Gov't contract w the purchase of the F-5, and I'm sure you'll find yourself warmly welcomed in the restricted areas and warning areas by a bunch of blood thirsty Viper, Rhino, Eagle, Hornet, or Raptor drivers.

Then, after they promptly and swiftly hand you your hiney, you can high-tail it home at Mach 1.2, or whatever you can wring out of that F-5.
 
ProudPilot said:
My favorite physics question. If you're traveling at the speed of light, and you shine a laser straight ahead, how fast does the photon come out?
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The photon still comes out of the laser at the speed of light. But in theory, the laser photon will be traveling twice the speed of light. Right?
 

Ajax BU said:
No, it will only go the speed of light, no faster.
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Hmph. I'm no physics guy here, I just try to look at it from a view like:

If I have a gun that shoots a bullet at 500mph, but I strap that gun to a jet that is flying 500mph and pull the trigger, theoretically the bullet will be traveling 1,000mph. No? I just applied that same logic to the laser question, but I guess that doesn't work for speed of light?
 
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