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^This.

Not entirely true... there were projects that were developed for the TBS and they ended up going to DCS as well afterward. Syria and Afghanistan are two examples. They were on TBS website for a LOOONG time.

Nice photos! Indeed, the F-16 has a nice afterburner with many shock diamonds in it. It's quite clear how that pilot had some sort of incomplete combustion during the take off. MiG-31:

I think we can see some thermocouples right there! Beautiful piece of engineering.

I'm very happy about what we are getting, one of the latest Charlie models, with a bunch of armament options. Asking for something more wouldn't be fair.

I wonder if the AoA capabilities are the same as the Legacy though. Legacy can pull a lot of AoA, of course, it bleeds a lot of energy at the same time. The problem of the Super I'd say is the induced drag, depending on your loadout, the aircraft can't even break the sound barrier at sea level. (according to some articles I found on internet, not sure if these are 100% correct) But I don't have any doubt that the Super would be a blast. I find it more interesting than the Legacy.

They burn a bit more fuel as well :) And they have a lot more induced drag because of the LEX.

IMHO if you're going to make a Super Hornet (one of my fav airframes) you should make the Block 2 or up, AESA radar man!

The Mighty GE90 of the 777, "side by side" with the 737! 128 (fan - while the nacelle is 134) inches of diameter... that's a lot! :D -

Indeed. I find this image brilliant, amazing. For a really long time, rockets used to be thrown away in the space and now, we can make them land vertically, which is mind-blowing, at least to me. Not sure if I'm exaggerating but I could say that two rockets, landing information, vertically, must be the most beautiful thing of this century, yet! Technologically saying. :)

Thanks for contributing Texac!

Amazing photo of the Falcon Heavy during lift off.

:megalol:

Hey guys! So it's been a long time that I've been wanting to create a thread that is all about gas turbine engines, jet engines in general. I absolutely love the topic and I'm sure there are people here who love this topic too! So I'm finally creating a thread all about turbine engines. I've been thinking about this for months, and I still don't know what to post here. Not sure if I should post a video, a question, quote or even photos... So I decided to post a link to a channel that inspired me to study the subject, which is, of course, the AgentJayZ! One of the greatest channels on YT IMHO. :smartass: https://www.youtube.com/user/AgentJayZ/videos A channel that is all about jet engines! So what I want to discuss in this thread: Everything about jet engines, being turbofan, turbojet, turboshaft, ramjet, rockets, anything related to jet engines. Please, if you have any question, picture, article, video to share, feel free to post them here! [emoji106] Here are two pictures of the SR-71 Blackbird (one of my fav jets!) taking off (1st pic) with afterburner on, and as you can see the Shock diamonds in the afterburner flame, which are oblique shockwaves caused by the supersonic gases and the difference in pressure (abrupt pressure changes) between the exhaust gas flow and the atmospheric pressure. At low altitudes, jet engines nozzles are generally over-expanded, which means the atmospheric pressure is higher than the exit flow of the exhaust. This increase in pressure ignites basically anything in the engine's exhaust! [emoji3] Temperature and pressure in the core of the shockwave are extremely high! I could talk about the SR-71 all day long... but anyway, feel free to post anything related to jet engines, I'm looking forward to seeing them! [emoji4]

+1 for that.

I'm not saying it has, I was just correcting myself, my post above. I thought our Hornet had the MPCD, but it's actually AMPCD. Thanks for the information though, I thought it was used for navigation only. There is a video on YT of a Canadian explaining how the Hornet cockpit works, and he said he could use the targeting pod thru the middle screen, but that's the CF-188A.

Uhm, right. But it's actually AMPCD. Our Hornet has the upgraded screen.

Seriously? I didn't know that! Any pic?

ED didn't even finish the MiG-29 FM and you guys want FC4? :D

Haven't seen that, did you repair the game?

Getting rescued by my buddy in the 109! Let's go back home!

AFAIK, no, MPCD is used for navigation only.

Oh it makes sense now. Initially, it didn't seem to be a radar to me :D

The Ricardo mod works just fine in 2.5.

Well maybe not :) having to repair every time you land might be a bit annoying :P