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[X-man]

The outcome of the accident: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Rans-S-9-Chaos/1761520/L/

[Vekkinho]

^^^^

Lucky pilot! It's no F-15C to fly with single wing but reminds me of Su-25T...

[mvsgas]

http://www.eglin.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/100816-f-7814k-000.jpg

Fighting falcon

 

An F-16 Fighting Falcon from the 79th Fighter Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C., releases a Guided

Bomb Unit-12 during a Weapons System Evaluation Program mission at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. This is

the second of three weeks of evaluation at Hill AFB by the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group. The WSEP

program is used to evaluate the effectiveness and suitability of combat air force weapon systems. The

evaluations are accomplished during tactical deliveries of fighter, bomber and unmanned aerial system

precision guided munitions, on realistic targets with air-to-air and surface-to-air defenses. For many of

the aircrew participating in WSEP, it is the first time employing live weapons. This provides a level of

combat experience many units face during combat. Courtesy photo.

Edited August 17, 2010 by mvsgas

[mvsgas]

If I could have this screen, flying would be so much interesting

http://www.langley.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/100812-F-0344B-005.jpg

[mvsgas]

You can fix anything with a hammer, even a F-22 :D

http://www.langley.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/100603-F-5594H-001.jpg

LO keeps Raptors off radars

 

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. - Senior Airman Victor Sylvan, 1st Equipment Maintenance Squadron

low observable aircraft structural maintenance journeyman, removes a panel from an F-22 Raptor in

preparation to apply low observable coatings. Low observable is the process of a coating stack being

applied on an F-22 that makes it invisible to radar, allowing the aircraft to remain undetected.

(U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Dana Hill)

[Vekkinho]

LOL!

 

Wooow, it's a +3 rep!

[topol-m]

F-16

[Avilator]

The outcome of the accident: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Rans-S-9-Chaos/1761520/L/

His parachute has him floating down nose first? Did something break on it or is that how it's supposed to go?:huh:

[jpm1]

 

pilot thought he missed , he put full throttle to go around again , there was only one problem he had caught the wire :music_whistling:

 

 

there's a trap

 

 

somebody knows if there are Crusader high res pictures somewhere (wallpaper)

[mvsgas]

http://maju-indonesia-ku.forumotions.com/maju-indonesia-ku-f1/alternatif-lain-penganti-ov-10-bronco-t58.htm

Edited August 18, 2010 by mvsgas

[topol-m]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Namenlos Ein]

Russian Air Force Day in Voronezh, 08/15/2010.

 

[mikoyan]

Libyan mig-23 crash; what do you guys think?

 

Edited August 18, 2010 by mikoyan

[Pilotasso]

looks like a stall, the mig-23 like many swept wing aircraft have vicious stall characteristics.

[mvsgas]

Wow!:huh:

Hard to tell, maybe he was lower than he thought and was unable to correct

[Pilotasso]

His middle wing sweep angle is unusual for such slow pass, and it looked like to me that the pilot pulled that high yo yo too hard and the plane over rolled resulting from the differential lift on the wings. After this it was impossible to correct. My 2 cents

Edited August 18, 2010 by Pilotasso

[Teknetinium]

Could be to hard on the stick when making the role but then again why would he pull so much when he was inverted, Could be that he entered a stall in the beginning of the role and ended up in that shit.

Or hydraulic failure in any way RIP pilots.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Teknetinium

[4c Hajduk Veljko]

These red stars, do they represent combat missions?

 

[jpm1]

seems a wrong manoeuver ?? US tested at area 51 Mig-23 they managed to get all around the world . pilots later said Mig-23 was a nightmare plane with lot lot of failures (even ejection seat was faulty)

[IvanK]

Looking at the Mig32 video the initial roll looks under control. Differential stab angle is consistent with a full roll demand. (At 0:37 into the video) There is no real departure yaw evident. Looks to me as a barrel role manoeuvre gone wrong. At the inverted position the aircraft roll stops with -ve pitch increasing There is then a complete reversal (Almost instantaneous) in Stab positions. The Port Stab appears to go neutral and the Starboard stab now goes full deflection (Leading edge down) at 0:38 then impact.

Edited August 18, 2010 by IvanK

[Sov13t]

These red stars, do they represent combat missions?

 

Not sure what you mean by combat.

 

But stars were and are still put on planes that successfully intercept high speed maneuvering air targets or successfully deploy missiles.

[mikoyan]

yeah, some pilots didn't like the mig-23 at all, Alexander Zuyev on his book says that the mig-23 had several strong points, but was accepted with less testing than other jets thanks to soviet bureaucracy, He mention that the short landing requirements were achieved by faking the real performance of the airplane; like releasing the drag parachute just before the jet hit the runway with its landing gear; even then the landing gear will suffer a lot from that type of landings. He also says that it was difficult to land because the jet tended to float and bounce really easily and if the pilot was not careful enough that bounce could end up in an ugly landing for the instructors eyes or worst a crash. He said that flying the mig-23 was like flying 3 different jets, because it will behave totally different depending on the swept angle, speed and throttle position. In other words a jet that required lots of training to not only fly but to master it.

[S77th-konkussion]

First powered flight Kitty Hawk NC

 

Took a short break and went to Outer Banks NC with my lady- Obviously I had to go check out the site of the first powered flight of an "aeroplane" ever..

 

Google Picassa-- http://picasaweb.google.com/103914262850733094082/WrightBrothers#

 

Other pics of OBX if anyone cares... --

http://picasaweb.google.com/103914262850733094082/NagsHead#

[mikoyan]

Some people think that Santos Dumont did the first powered flight instead of the Wright brothers.

 

Sadly he lost all his passion about airplanes when he found that the became killing machines instead of the unifying machines he dream off.

Edited August 19, 2010 by mikoyan

[jpm1]

 

the only reason why the second one isn't my wallpaper it's that i like the Crusader a lot :D