Photos/Videos (NO DISCUSSION)

[IvanK]

Great video. Looks like a Flapless approach therfore pretty fast, super long float with gulp long touchdown, then ran out of brakes

[topol-m]

Mixed:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[zakobi]

danish F-16 :)

[topol-m]

Fuel dump?

 

[mvsgas]

Fuel dump?

 

 

I think that is the second time we see that Topol-M, didn't you posted another photo of another

JASDF F-15 doing the same? If I remember correctly, the F-15 fuel dumps are on the wing tips

and I do not know or can think of a reason why they would dump fuel while taking off, so I

think something might be wrong with the external tank connection on this particular photo. I'm

no expert and I could not tell you for sure, but it does look like fuel is coming from the

external wing tank pylons doesn't it?

 

I'm looking for a photo of the F-15 wing tip, never realize how hard it is to actually find one.

[Eddie]

Looks like vortices coming off the rear of the wing hard points to me. If it had been on the underside of the fuselage I'd have said excess hydraulic/engine oil vaporising, although that generally only happens at start up on most aircraft in my experience.

 

 

Edit:

Unless it's fuel venting from the drop tanks for some reason?

Edited January 30, 2010 by Eddie
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[topol-m]

I think that is the second time we see that Topol-M, didn't you posted another photo of another

JASDF F-15 doing the same? If I remember correctly, the F-15 fuel dumps are on the wing tips

and I do not know or can think of a reason why they would dump fuel while taking off, so I

think something might be wrong with the external tank connection on this particular photo. I'm

no expert and I could not tell you for sure, but it does look like fuel is coming from the

external wing tank pylons doesn't it?

 

I'm looking for a photo of the F-15 wing tip, never realize how hard it is to actually find one.

 

 

Indeed I posted it. :) I knew you`d remember so here 3 more :D Still don`t know why it is dropping fuel that way...

 

 

 

[Airway]

Any pictures of the new russian stealth fighter?

 

http://bit.ly/c5r4u9

[Pilotasso]

Open you eyes budy. :D

[Airway]

Just found the T-50 (PAK-FA) construction started thread :music_whistling:

 

I didn't know that it was called T-50 as T letter was used for tanks in the past and I didn't read the thread.

 

Thanks :)

[Bucic]

Just found the T-50 (PAK-FA) construction started thread :music_whistling:

 

I didn't know that it was called T-50 as T letter was used for tanks in the past and I didn't read the thread.

 

Thanks :)

T was also used for Sukhoi prototypes.

[Airway]

There you go.

I just watched pics in the other thread and thought. Well hmm, looks like a little bit altered Mig-29 or Su-27.

[topol-m]

There you go.

I just watched pics in the other thread and thought. Well hmm, looks like a little bit altered Mig-29 or Su-27.

 

"a little bit altered" :laugh: :doh:

[topol-m]

China threatens U.S. with sanctions over Taiwan arms

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China threatened to impose sanctions on U.S. arms firms and cut cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, in an unprecedented move signaling Beijing's growing global power.

 

Quote:

... The United States will shoulder responsibility for the serious repercussions if it does not immediately reverse the mistaken decision to sell weapons to Taiwan," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei told U.S. ambassador to China Jon Huntsman in comments reported on the Foreign Ministry's website (http://www.mfa.gov.cn)...

End of quote

 

the article: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60T07W20100130

[topol-m]

Japan's newest military transport aircraft Kawasaki XC-2 first flight on January 26th:

 

[MoGas]

Japan's newest military transport aircraft Kawasaki XC-2 first flight on January 26th:

 

 

Looks like the little brother from the C-17 :)

[hitman]

i like how china threatens us like that. oh no! they wont sell us garbage and cheap crap! guess we'll have to buy good quality made in usa stuff and bring more jobs back home instead. :(

[topol-m]

i like how china threatens us like that. oh no! they wont sell us garbage and cheap crap! guess we'll have to buy good quality made in usa stuff and bring more jobs back home instead. :(

 

If only it was simple as that...

[Lucas_From_Hell]

There you go.

I just watched pics in the other thread and thought. Well hmm, looks like a little bit altered Mig-29 or Su-27.

 

Just a thing, if a doctor alter you the same "little bit" Sukhoi did with the PAK-FA, you'll look like Pamela Anderson :D

[topol-m]

Just a thing, if a doctor alter you the same "little bit" Sukhoi did with the PAK-FA, you'll look like Pamela Anderson :D

 

:lol: :megalol: +1

[hitman]

yeah...one thing in common is that its all crap from china. everything from my shoes to my cell phone, to cheap ripped off technology.

[Airway]

The design is the same like MiG-29 or Su-27 Design.

Just everything is a bit more rectangle.

Jetintake overhead is the same as with MiG and Su designs, engine position, nozzles, almost everything.

 

Will show like a big dustbin on radar, while other stealth designs will be smaller.

 

Let't not hope, or better: let's hope this will be the final design

 

What a crap copy of stealth technology.

Made in China by reverse engineering?

[159th_Viper]

[topol-m]

The design is the same like MiG-29 or Su-27 Design.

Just everything is a bit more rectangle.

Jetintake overhead is the same as with MiG and Su designs, engine position, nozzles, almost everything.

 

Will show like a big dustbin on radar, while other stealth designs will be smaller.

 

Let't not hope, or better: let's hope this will be the final design

 

What a crap copy of stealth technology.

Made in China by reverse engineering?

 

OMG this guy is the King of trolls. :doh: Look more carefully at the pictures top-down/side/front - 1. you either will SEE the difference, or 2. you will not see it cause you don`t want to see it, or 3. you won`t see it cause all modern fighters look alike :huh:

Edited January 31, 2010 by topol-m

[mvsgas]

Looks like vortices coming off the rear of the wing hard points to me. If it had been on the underside of the fuselage I'd have said excess hydraulic/engine oil vaporising, although that generally only happens at start up on most aircraft in my experience.

 

 

Edit:

Unless it's fuel venting from the drop tanks for some reason?

Definitely not just vortexes, I wonder why they leak like that?

 

The US F-100-PW-220 engine (which is used in some version of the F-15) does dump Fuel of

the bottom but only when going from burner to MIL power (max RPM power) or from going

from running (normally idle) to cut-off.