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It was my understanding that the ventral openings under the engine necelles on the Su-27 and on the top of the Leading edge extensions on teh mig-29 is what allow them to keep the engine breathing during the extreme AoA maneuvers like the cobra? The tail slide I don't know how they overcome reverse flow back up to the compressor section....

are you driving at exceeding critical AoA and (wing)stalling? or compressor stall? just a guess...

70 Ka-50's??????

There is no way that ED will allow 3rd party devs to build anything for them. It means less money in their pocket, and they would have to release proprietary info to someone else! Especially since BS probably won't sell (at first) what LO or FC has. Alienating the Jet guys is simply risky business.

I realize that nothing I can say has any remote effect on ED, but it feels better to share my bewilderment with how ED has decided to continue...If there are others here like me, which there must be hence all the controversy over BS, here's what I foresee: The Lockon series of players all bought Lockon or FC, because they love JETS. There are fans out there who love both helo and Jet alike. Then there are guys like me who don't care to ever use a helo in a sim EVER, but respect those who do. And finally there are guys who vehemently hate choppers. My feeling is that BS won't initially make the sales hoped for until there are viable JETS (plural) in the sim. Plain and simple. Waiting YEARS for a single new fighter addon to a stand alone module is almost asinine in my view. Think of it. If BS is actually available the start of JAN 08, the soonest we would have a new module according to the FAQ is roughly sept. (9 months away). If that module is the Apache, that still doesn't satisfy any of the fast movers. And if the A-10 is the first jet, your looking at sometime in 2010 before the FIRST fighter is made flyable (Barring the option that ED decides to distribute some "lesser known, produced in small numbers" jet). Undoubtedly there will also be delays just as with BS. As for me, I'm not holding my breath for anything. I want to see just how popular BS becomes. I'll be playing FC and waiting for FO and the next from LP. Hopefully someone in Sales over at ED sees the light and decides to release a few jets at a time as the very next module. :cry: Here's hoping!

Seems to be a good enough a/c yet, to have the DoD concerned with surplus parts falling into the wrong hands.

I would be willing to pay upwards of $100.00 for an F-14 module that was fully detailed to the extent that the Ka-50 is supposed to be. Sounds crazy, but if done right it would be well worth the money to me. Although, since it's no longer in service, I would imagine that ED doesn't want to include something that could potentially kill at twice the range of all other aircraft. Here's hoping though...;)

More on the A-10C http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/a-highertech-hog-the-a10c-pe-program-03187/

In all likelyhood, the handle was in the up position for a an immediate retractraction upon liftoff...the squat switch was disengaged for a second and the hydraulic pump started to lift the gear...too bad...

All the time...especially if he knew the area well.

Looks like it is from sr-71.org I find it interesting that the performance envelope is so narrow...well, cheers to Kelly Johnson's team anyway!

Is that sr-71 performance chart from sr-71.org ???

I think I know what you're trying to get at...I'm just having seconds thoughts about it. First of all the airpseeds used for the sr-71 are in KEAS. So, at say 25K ft 450 KEAS is not much more than mach 1.10 I don't think that the blackbird can't go supersonic at low altitude, so much as it doesn't at low altitude because it is extremely fuel inefficient to do so. There are probably other factors for the number ie: maneuvering speed; since the aircraft has almost dry tanks on takeoff and (i assume they don't refuel at 7500 MSL) without the extra weight of fuel the wing loading would be severely reduced...but since I've never flown the plane I can only make an educated guess... Okay, I do however, know of what is called "mach tuck" or Mmo or Vmo (max mach operation speed). This is when an aircraft that CAN produce the thrust required to go faster at any given altitude is limited to a lower airpseed because of structural limitations. ie: The plane is only traveling at 0.85 mach but the air traveling over the wings is actually going .99 mach and the structural design speed of the wing is mach 1. So the aircraft is limited to an KIAS to comply with the design limits of the wing itself. This speed will change as alt. increases/decreases because of pressures associated with different altitudes. Not sure if that is what you are thinking of...hope it helps.