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The pilot landed it at 260kts touchdown speed with the hook down, no way would it have had its nose that high if it did even with the loss of likt because the the missing wing. But the story is 100% more or less. The problem here is that what ever way it was edited for the History Channel so that they could have some extra pics to show.

Yeah I thought that too. The bottom three pics on the left seem photoshoped to me. The one that shows the fuel leaking form the wing is an F-15E. I can see the CFTs (which Israeli F-15C and Ds do use from time to time), the LANTIRN pods and a 120 on the wing and this is in 1983! :megalol: I don't think a 'winder of Python 3 would stick out that far and it would have control fins up front unless it is a ACM pod.

Speaking of limping back home. The A-10 and Su-25 are known for taking heavy damage and still getting home but check this. A lot of people probably already know about it for a long time but I haven' seen any pictures of it till now. It's the Israeli F-15D that collided with an A-4 in a 2v4 dogfight.

The AIM-120D was flight tested on the F-22 in April to check for noise vibration damage. The missile is externally the same as the C, all the changes are internal. It has reportedly a 50% range increase over the latest C7. This increase in range is said to be because of an improved navigation system! No extra fuel or anything. It was said that it was found during tests of the C7 on the F-22 that certain vibrations at certain frequencies caused or could cause damage to the missile because the cards in the C7 are arranged differently than other models. There has been no other news since on the D which was known as the C8. I do not know if it has been test fired yet to see if it does in fact have the claimed 50% range increase. The F-22 and Superhornet are the first types to be intergrated with the D when is goes IOC. Either way the Meteor looks to be a far superior missile IMO.

It looks like someone else alreay had the same idea and did it. http://www.ch-hangar.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3195

Ice, I noticed on your skin that you have PA tail codes, while the real one has WA tail codes. Is PA even a real one or just one you made up? I don't know of any squadron that has PA codes.

Nice one ICE, would you like to have a go at this one aswell? I can only get it from this angle though.:doh:

Speaking of A320 accidents, one A320 had an emergency landing at Dublin airport last night at 8:00pm GMT. As it was on finals ATC could see smoke and fire coming from the tail. The fire was caused by an electrical fault in the APU. The fire was quickly put out on landing and all 97 passangers were safe.

Thats the BS alright, the demo appears to updated from when it was released. Odd to see the pilot modeled, wonder do the arms move the stick and cyclic like in EE:CvH.

Yes but some MSIP F-15A/Bs were fitted with the -220 and not all F-15Es have the -229. A few units still have -220 powered F-15Es and are usually based in the US for training. Some -220 F-15Es were refitted with the 229 later and in recent years. Currently around 80% of the USAF Stike Eagles are 229IPE powered.

But my statement was very much true. The -100 was up-trimmed to around 29k thrust when used on the F-15D test airframe for the F-15E program. There were limited -220s at the time as they were going into F-16s and the early F-15C/D were being refitted with them so that why the -100s were used for that.

Yep the 229 is heavier and needs extra cooling. Cooling ducts are installed at the rear of the CFTs used on the F-15E and have been modified when newer versions of the CFTs were developed, There were 3 or 4 different versions of the CFT. The latest I think are the dash 4E CFTs.

Yep. the -100 can produce anywhere from 23,770-29,000lbs. The -100s are by default left at the 23,7 power rating to last longer. While they can be up-trimmed to produce 29k as were installed on an F-15D airframe acting as a proof of concept for the first F-15E. The C/D are rated at 23,450lbs but these too can be up-trimmed to give more power at the expense of longer life. BTW the surviving USAF fleet of around 150 Eagles are due an engine upgrade in the next 5-10 years which will be good to see.

The -220 is actually slightly less powerful than the older -100s. The -220 is seen as an upgrade in terms of reliability and behaves better when worked hard by the pilot with multiple throttle slams from idle to burner and back without any fear of a compressor stall or flame-out, it also respons quicker to throttle inputs.

Well the will be around 24-30 Su-27s upgraded to SM standard in the next year or so in Russia. There is currently around 12 already upgraded. Weather the Su-33s get to included in the upgrade program remains to be seen. There are only around 22 Su-33s to upgrade anyway.

Thats like the problem Falcon 4 used to have. The stores were too draggy in the 1.08 patch. This was then fixed in the Superpacks and it flew like a dream then when fully armed. One thing that is for sure is that the A-10 is underpowered but I still think it handles really good in LO. The MiG, I know is a high T/W ratio fighter even when fully armed but I feel it's a little overpowered.

The F-15 also uses PW engines. The F-15C can supercruise if it was fitted with the -229s that power the F-15E. Put a pair of -119s or -135s in and the F-15 would supercruise better than the Typhoon. But then Lockheed have changed the deffinition of what supercruise is. It was origonally faster than M1 then that went to M1.2 and now Lockheed say that M1.5 without AB is supercruise. The F-111F when clean of external pylons could go faster than M1 in dry power, as could the F-14D and the F-15D that was used to test the 229s for the F-15E because it had no CFTs. This was only something like M1.02-1.05 but still supersonic in dry power.

Yeah, what the hell would you do with 5 bullets? Find a clamp and a hammer and carry the thing with you:megalol: Sorry for the OT:music_whistling:

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F-16 canopy jettison test.

That is one hell of a muzzle flash from the GSh-301. :gun_rifle::surprise:

Suppose HE rounds will be for light targets. Trucks, infantry, aircraft and helos.

Yeah, I was reading his post, no.24 a few seconds ago and I am still only going to buy BS because of the AIM-120C, before I found out about that I had no intention of buying BS at all.

Lockon does not support HT or dual core at all, only quantispeed on the old Athlon XP cpus was supported.

Em......wasn't Easter last week. I can't really think, as I had a mad one last night. :D