At what point in evolution would humans have been able to fly supersonic jet fighters and why?

Answer 1

Impossible to answer - until the age of modern technology, there was very little that would test human reaction times to their limits. It's entirely feasible that a man from the 1500s could fly a jet with the right training, or equally likely that until we started driving, we were not travelling fast enough to require quick reaction times.

Answer 2

Development of the jet fighter was a consequence of World War Two. The jet engine, as we know it today, was actually invented by Frank Whittle in 1934 at Power Jets in England, but the RAF was not interested in developing it at the time. Ernst Heinkel created the first jet plane, the tiny He-178, which flew on August 27, 1939. The first supersonic flights were not until after the war, made by Chuck Yeager in the Bell X-1. The first truly supersonic fighter was the Lockheed F-100 Super Sabre, which entered service in 1953 and was used in Vietnam.

Answer 3

The Avro Arrow, designed and built in Canada in 1958 was a supersonic jet fighter interceptor, to be sold to the US as a replacement to their fleet of jets, and was considered to be years ahead of its time. How sad that they bent to political and economic pressure and ended up destroying it. So the answer would have to be 1958 was the point of evolution. Why? Because a team of specialists needed to be challenged by creating something that the world had not yet seen. It was the first jet to exceed Mach 1 and break the sound barrier.

Most if not all of the people, engineers, scientists, propulsion specialists were then hired by NASA to assist with the space programs.

Answer 4

Physically and mentally, humans have been pretty much the same for about the last 30,000-40,000 years. However, there is a whole load of cultural background that would be needed before a person from that time could even be taught to fly a jet.

That said, if you could scoop up a newborn baby from 30,000 years ago and bring it up in our times, you could probably train it to be a jet fighter pilot.

Answer 5

specific you could fly a fighter jet, and specific you could very own one, even nevertheless there is a few regulations. First, it could't be a contemporary airframe utilized by ability of the militia, which ability the layout has been decommissioned, and could be demiltiaized in the previous they are offered-removing of the weapons practise structures, bombs, purpose radars..etc. 2d, they might desire to qualified as limited or experimental. If the plane can't be operated above mach a million. . reckoning on the plane, a form score is needed, extreme altitude flight practise required, and assurance companies will defiantly require a traiining software for the pilot in the previous they are going to insure it, and probaley a Commerical tool score too. Its basic for civilans to very own and function former fighter jets jointly with Mig's, F4's, f5's, A-4 skyraiders, F-86's, and incredibly some running shoes jointly with a T5, t37, L-29/39's, Iskra's

Answer 6

I don't think there have been any physiological changes in humans for a few thousand years, so you could train a human from say 5000 years ago to fly a jet.
It seems to me that by the way of meams, technology is learnt from generation to generation but physiological changes take a lot longer. So a person from 5000 years ago would be able to fly a spaceship that hasn't even been invented yet.
The same question could be applied to us now but in reverse like would someone from today be able to run away from a sabretoothed tiger.

Answer 7

In terms of evolution, we are basically the same as we were thousands of years ago. So a modern human from the Rift Valley 10,000 years ago, would be just about as capable as a Top Gun Pilot today, if given the same training and understanding of technology and Science.

Answer 8

In terms of the intellectual capacity needed to pilot jets and how molecular geneticists such as Lahn and others have been reconstructing the evolution of hominid intellectual capacity in terms of molecular genetics, I would guess anywhere from 37,000 to 90,000 years ago.

Answer 9

Monkeys could probably fly jet fighters if they were taught how.

Answer 10

I would say when jet fighters were invented.