Originally Posted by Croppyking
I'd be interested to see the realities of the combat ranges you have quoted with similiarly configured aircraft (does this include loading stores on the outboard supers pylon?)
A bit outside my field of knowledge here I'm afraid. The figures I've given were MTOW hi-lo-hi combat radii.
Originally Posted by Croppyking
My understanding of the super vs classic for front seaters is that they are almost identical aircraft to fly - ie one or two mission checkouts is all that is required on the super.....?
From a basic flight point of view, perhaps. The cockpit layouts of Super and late build/upgraded classics, and the basic handling qualities are quite similar. However, in order to take the Super (which is almost 30% heavier than the classic) to war, I'd imagine there would be quite alot more conversion training required.
Magoo