The story is "Hawk Among The Sparrows." It was published in ANALOG
magazine back in the dim ages.
The plane was able to fly because it uses jet fuel. The pilot had
'em load the plane with 'parafin,' (aka Kerosene AFAIK) usually used
to fuel the cook stoves. The locals were amazed just how much of the
stuff a jet guzzled!
--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn_at_ix.netcom.nospam.com
>
>I seem to recall a SF story about a jet fighter finding itself back in WW-I
>and it had a real problem. The aircraft were all wood & cloth, no radar
>signature to speak of, not enough of a heat source for the IR missiles to
>lock onto. As I recall, the pilot discovered the most efficient way to down
>one was to blast by at supersonic speed and destroy it that way.
>
>>
>> In the movie you see premier WWII Japanese fighter planes up
>>against the F-14.
>> There is simply no comparison. One of my favorite scenes is the Japanese
>> pilot who has been rescued after his plane is shot down, is standing on the
>> carrier deck and observing air operations. He can't believe what he sees.
>
>Imagine the further surprise in a few decades when the carrier is equipped
>w/ maglev catapults, and the Phalanx are replaced with lasers.
>
>--
>
>Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
>
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>If aviation had grown as slowly as space travel, the first paying
>customer would have flown in 1943 -- in the 1,657th expendable Wright
>Flyer.
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>
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