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I'm back! And very glad to see your works (expecially the MiG-21 updates)! Beautiful idea, cmeliak. If you want it, I have some schematics of the Tu-154B. Very detailed and made by a skilled guy, I don't remember his name, sorry about that. I can send to you as a mail attachment. (flanker@fastwebnet.it) Bye!

Thanks Chizh! For Allochtoon, I have found this links for you: http://cybermodeler.com/aircraft/mig-21/mig-21p.shtml good exahust view, http://www.ofbindia.com/exports/parachute.htm ehm... for the chute...

beautiful! It seems that 1.2 grows up faster than 1.1!

Yes, it is named Mach disk. The flow structure displaying a converging exhaust jet and an oblique shock starting at the nozzle lip and ending in a Mach disk, is the configuration of a slightly overexpanded nozzle. The flow is overexpanded due it is too hot and the nozzle can't resist this temperature if adapted. Bye!

For the brake chute I have a scale drawing but I can't upload. Send me your mail address and I send back some usefull images of the Fishbed. I leave for 2 weeks the 31 of March, so... For the main wheels, I have found olny that: Hydraulically retractable tricycle type, with single wheel on each unit; all units housed in fuselage when retracted. Forward retracting non-steerable nosewheel unit, tyre size 500 x 180 mm; inward retracting mainwheels which turn to stow vertically inside fuselage. Size 800 x 200 mm tyres on mainwheels, inflated to approximately 7.93 bars (115 lb/sq in), ruling out normal operation from grass runways. Pneumatic disc brakes on all three wheels supplied from compressed air bottles. Steering by differential mainwheel braking. Wheel doors remain open when legs are extended. Brake parachute housed inside acorn fairing at base of rudder. A little consideration about the model, if you permit. For me, the fixed canopy part is too reclined. Thanks for your work, bye!

I have found some things at http://www.hostultra.com/~migalley/mig21_pictures.html

I really don't know if I have what you want, but who knows? I can send to you a mail whit some images. My mail is Flanker@fastwebnet.it

Thanks for the great mod SwingKid and Alfa!

Hi SilientEagle. I thought that your Falcon grows very well, but there is one already in the game, and it has a good model. Why don’t you use your skill to make a Viggen or an Eurofighter or a Flagon or a B-2 or a F-15E or an Harrier or a Draken or a Starfighter or a Forger or a Rafale or a 747 or one of the several planes (or even helicopter) that aren’t in the game? I have seen the flyable whishlist few topics above, why all the occidental players consider only the F-18 or the F-16? They are monomaniacs! The Ka-50 is a wonderful new entry, because it is a copter an it can show the simulator to another point of view! For me, a valid alternative can be a single engine aircraft with a variable geometry wings, for example.

Fortunately!

Ah, if you want some pics, just ask!

Good to hear you again, Allochtoon. And good question! As far as I know, the MiG-21 is equipped with a split drag chute cone in the bottom of the vertical tail, loaded with a PT-21UK brake chute (I read this… !): Then there is also to consider an auxiliary air intake in the flanks of the fuselage (like the Su-17M4 already in the game): Than there are the usual things, air brakes, canopy, mobile surfaces, gears, and I don't know more. Good luck!

I think BIOLOG refers to it: http://forum.lockon.ru/viewtopic.php?t=2722&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=russian+terms

Ah! :o

Check also this: http://www.airwar.ru/other/drawe.html It seems good.

I know only http://www.aviacherteg.narod.ru/ It has many good detailed aircraft plans, but is in russian and many of the plans are off line... Click on ЧЕРТЕЖИ for the plans and МОНОГРАФИИ for the monografies. The aircraft are ordered in tree periods (WWI, WWWII, and today). Good luck! PS. MiG-29 http://www.aviation.orc.ru/mig/mig29-c.htm MiG-25 http://www.aviation.orc.ru/mig/mig25-c.htm

Perhaps I have found what we need to know about the Eagle intakes: Usual informations, but the text report, like Brit says, that the intakes is also affected by angle of attack. And this is simulated! I have take this text from: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/%7Epettypi/elevon/baugher_us/f015.html#RTFToC20 by Joe Baugher What do you think about it?

Hi Rampstrike, I have take a ride on the Eagle (1.02). I think that the position of the air intake depends from the speed, not only from the throttle. I have the same effects of ruggbutt.

Ehi, I found this topic of Cizh http://www.forum.lockon.ru/viewtopic.php?t=3187&sid=e9c515fa766a5b176a9e00c30afe2239 with some screenshot of the new missiles. Are things of a month old, but I think that can be interesting for you. Rest to modify Russia ФАБ-1500 КАБ-1500Л Х-59 Х-65 9М113 "Конкурс" 9М114 "Штурм" 9М117 С-5 С-8 С-13 9М22 "Град" 9А52 "Смерч" 3М9М "Куб" 9М33 "Оса" 9М31 "Стрела-1" 9М38 "Бук" 9М333 "Стрела-10" 9М330 "Тор" 9М311 "Тунгуска" 9М39 "Игла" NATO BL755 CBU-97 GBU-10 CBU-12 GBU-16 GBU-24 GBU-27 GBU-28 AGM-62 AGM-84E AGM-119 "Penguin" AGM-154 AIM-54 Phoenix AGM-114A/L Hellfire Sea Eagle ALARM AS 34 "Kormoran" FIM-92 Stinger MIM-23 Hawk MIM-104 Patriot MIM-115 Roland BGM-71 TOW SM-2 (RIM-66) Hydra 70 (rocket) Zuni (rocket) M26 MLRS (rocket)

Ok... as I said my English knowledge is not so good. So, sorry my incomprehension. I have learned a new word! I appreciate the competence of JJ, SwingKid and the others, but remember that any Joe Public can read an aeronautical manual. And you too (oh men, I'm british too!), finding out that the ramps function is, yes to "transform" the supersonic flow in subsonic, but also to control the mass flow. And this also before the supersonic flight. For Skywall, thanks, I don't have understood that brit=British!

to britgliderpilot: Why so resentful where not necessary? I express only my opinion that is important exactly like yours. I respect you and I don't have offended anyone. Why you do? PS. I'm not english speaking... what is Joe Public?

Oh, sorry, I am only an Aerospace Engineer... I don't know so much about aircrafts... :goodman:

(Please read the previous post) And we have… the internal ramps picture! (Sorry I don't have any better...) 1-first convergent ramp 2-bleeding holes (I think) or boundary layer trip devices 3-second convergent ramp 4-divergent ramp 5-sing of the max deformation of the ramps 6-Pitot tube (I think) 7-compressor Hope this clear what I mean. Can ED add them in the air intakes of the F-15, Su-27 and so on? TIA.

The function of an air intake of a jet is to slow down the air flow compressing it in the same time before it enter in the compressor. For example when the throat of the intake is in choking (i.e. M=1) we have the max amount of capacity of the air intake. Because of that the air flow upstream is modified. Thus, ramps control the amount of air admitted. And no, in general the engines don't want to eat the same amount of air. For example starting the jet the airflux is not sufficently compressed and than it must be reduced. And then?

I'm with you! Plus the internal ramps are absent even on the Flanker... (Downstream of the intakes are moveable ramps which control the amount of air admitted to the engines)