What is the difference between T 38 and F-5?

Originally Answered: What’s the difference between the f-5 and t-38? The short version is the F-5 can carry and fire me weapons and most versions are single seat planes. The T-38 does not carry weapons and it is always a two seater since it is a trainer.

Did Tom Cruise fly an F-14?

Although he pilots several different aircraft in Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise was denied clearance by the U.S. Navy to fly the F-18 jet. Probably because no one flew an F-18 in the movie it was an F-14 FFS… And that was the question…

Which Soviet pilots were impressed by the F-5 fighter?

Soviet pilots from Chkalov’s Russian Flight Test Center near the Volga River — among them Vladimir Kandaurov, Alexander Bezhevets and Nikolay Stogov — were reportedly impressed by the F-5’s performance against the MiG-21.

Did F-5 tests lead to the Soviet MiG-23?

The data from the F-5 tests apparently contributed to the development of the MiG-23. The F-5 wasn’t the only American fighter the Soviets obtained. One curious photo depicts what seems to be a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter — or a mock-up of the legendary jet — under a tarp at the Zhukovskiy airfield near Moscow in August 1971.

What makes the F-5 a popular export aircraft?

Being smaller and simpler than contemporaries such as the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, the F-5 cost less to both procure and operate, making it a popular export aircraft. The F-5 started as a privately funded light fighter program by Northrop in the 1950s. The design team wrapped a small, highly aerodynamic fighter…

Is the F-5 a serious threat to modern fighters?

As adversary aircraft the F-5 is becoming old, but in the right hands it can still be a serious threat for more modern fighters, as told by Physco: “Another interesting thing with the F-5 is that we are a simple, less advanced aircraft, and when you kill a fighter like an F/A-18 it definitely gets their attention.