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Originally Posted by Thor
Just have to say having an older brother who's a pilot and aficionado of planes, I've long had a crush on the f-18, especially when I saw it at an airshow in cold lake when I was 14, when the announcer said it was the only plane that could go straight up and gain speed. Well something like that, as a kid I just remember it being so cool.
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Yeah, that's not right, there are some planes that can do that, and the CF-18 isn't one of them.
The CF-18 only has a Thurst to weight ratio of ~0.9 (checked wikipedia for that one) so it can't accelerate straight up.
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