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Bell P-39C Airacobra - 1st American Volunteer Group, 1942

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2015... Early test flights of the Boeing F-15F Super Eagle from Eglin AFB !

Supermarine Seafire Mk.IIIC - No.2 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1944 The successful Dhimari counter-attack at Maqazad in the Spring of 1943 proved to be short lived and the Parani bombing of the Dhimari city of Shaqaz during May 1943 led to the deployment of Dhimari P-66 Vanguards and Hurricane IIC's to northern areas of Dhimar leading to a further weakening of the Royal Dhimari Air Force in their desperate attempts to defend the Mazadran Oil Fields and the Valley of Kerman during the summer of 1943. Paran's senior Commander, Brigadier General Abolqasem Mossadegh, followed up by launching Operation Whirlwind in September 1943 and, with Paran gaining air superiority over the Valley of Kerman, it's land forces pushed onwards towards the industrial oil center at Al'Qatan in an audacious attack on the wider Mazadran oil fields. The UK government had long promised Spitfires to modernise the Royal Dhimari Air Force and whilst a handful of war weary Spitfire VB's from Malta were received during the Autumn of 1943 many more fighter aircraft were required. Churchill ordered that 30 new Spitfires were to be transferred to the Royal Dhimari Air Force but, much to the annoyance of the Admiralty, the Ministry of Aircraft Supply ordered that they should all be from the initial batch of 30 interim Seafire IIIC's coming off the Westland production line and all built without wing-folding. Powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin 55 series engine rated at 1,470 h.p. (with power absorbed by a new four-bladed Rotol propeller) the Seafire IIIC's also featured the slim Aero-Vee air filter and the six-stack ejector type exhausts. Entering service with No.2 Squadron in December 1943 the Seafire IIIC's immediately replaced the P-66D Vanguards and proved to be the equal of the Parani Ki-61's and Bf 109G-6's enabling the Royal Dhimari Air Force to restore air superiority over the Valley of Kerman. Skin Credit: Charles

Flying between two tunnels by @costadario

Douglas A-4E Skyhawk - No.860 Squadron, Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service, 1971

I think Ace Combat is owed an apology. Surprised the aircraft could lift the man's tungsten balls.

Giving the new Vulcan a workout high over the English countryside..

I have absolutely no idea! I set up the mission to be a simple intercept of the Airbus (actually the 'real' mission was to intercept a Tu-95 on a recon run off the North Sea coast but I set up a couple of F-15Cs out of Lakenheath to take care of that). The story was that the airliner's navigation equipment had gone down and we would form up on it and lead it down through the clouds and onto the runway. I was as surprised as anyone when I got in visual range, and the flyby to check over the airliner was real. I re-wrote the story in my head on the fly as I tracked the Airbus down and over London until it landed. Funny thing is I've flown the mission a few more times since then because I thought I had set something wrong, maybe with the airliner dropping below stall speed, and it has been absolutely fine... Maybe TK programmed in a secret setting - RandomCatastrophicMishap=TRUE

awesome, your weathering or did the original come like that? more mandatory screenies from todays theme (now in a more appropriate setting)

Kawasaki Ki-100 Otsu - Parani Army Air Force, 1945

Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien - Parani Army Air Force, 1944

Douglas F-6C Skyray - 178th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, United States Air Force, 1966

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MiG-23PD was the designation of the Ye-230 development aircraft line. It had similar wings like the MiG-21, that is true, the gear system was similar. But it was a dead end development line. The same was Ye-8, which based on MiG-21PF. The intended service designation of the Ye-8 was in fact MiG-23. But it had nothing to do with the real MiG-23. The MiG-21PD, which you mentioned, was only a technology demonstrator. It had only fuel for 10 minutes or so and was unable to retract the landing gear. The MiG-23 based on the Ye-231 development aircraft line, which had not much in common with the MiG-21, beside some electronical equipment. Back to Su-17 vs MiG-27. Both planes were developed, because the soviet frontal aviation realized in the 1960th, that there was no dedicated CAS aircraft available. To modify the MiG-17 and Su-7 from fighters into fighter bombers helped not very much. Thatswhy the construction bureaus MiG and Sukhoi got the task to build a fighter bomber plane which should be able to fly CAS missions and tactical nuclear strikes. Sukhoi took the Su-7 plane and changed the wings in that kind, that the outer wings could swing. This was simple and clever. The development risks were low. The plane was easy to handle for the pilot. Existing weapon stations could be used. Sukhoi decided to add additionaly electronic, like ECM, Laserdesignater etc, as pods on one of the weapon stations. With the last versions this was changed, the Su-17 got the humpback, with enough space for a powerfull electronic package. The latest versions Su-17M4 and Su-22M4 were mighty planes. They were so big and strong, that east german pilots, who after the political change switched from Su-22M4 to Tornado IDS said "In contrast to the "Susi" the "Tony" was a fragile plane!" The Su-17 was a plane with the major focus on CAS. The MiG-23BN was a little bit different. The MiG-23BN was smaller than the mighty Susi. Electronical equipment like Laser or ECM were built in internally. The MiG-23BN had thick armour plates on the sides of the cockpit. The Autopilot, the weapon control system and the navigation system were networked. Thatswhy a MiG-23BN was able to follow a flight path along programmed waypoints automatically and was able to fire weapons automatically and was finally able to land automatically. Only for start the pilot was needed, the rest the plane was able to do it alone, without pilots help. Of course, the accuracy of the automatical weapon release was not good enough to hit small targets with conventional weapons, but it was good enough for hitting a target with a 30kt nuclear bomb. And this was the main task for the MiG-23BN. The CAS role was rather secondary and there the MiG-23BN was not really good. The KH-23 missile was more or less crap and without this missile the MiG-23BN was only a dumb iron dropper. So you can say while the Su-17 was more focused on CAS, the MiG-23BN was more focused on nuclear strike. The MiG-27 was the attempt to implement modern weapon systems into the MiG-23BN airframe. The electronic was much better, the autopilot, for instance, was not longer dangerous for the pilot of the plane. The air intake system was modified, the engine changed. The plane got the ability to defend itself against air opponents. And so on. The MiG-27 was a much better CAS plane than the MiG-23BN, but finally the latest versions of the Su-17 or Su-22 were the better planes.

Nice! The pilot is Italian! This has been such a great year in sports for my country.

I found this photo of a model of the original lift-engine variant. The intakes were moved to the side to fit in the radar, just as was done on the Su-9/11 and the Chinese MiG-21s. WofRussia04_Mig_23-01.jpg (464×349) (impdb.org) This is the prototype in flight: mig23pd-1.jpg (600×296) (bp.blogspot.com) Early MiG-23 development concepts were based on the Ye-8, which was the MiG-21 with the intake under the nose and a small canard. The Ye-8 variants progressed into the 23-01 variants, which were barely flying before they were canceled in favor of the swing wing redesign that became the MiG-23. So, they didn't start with a blank sheet of paper and build a design around the idea of the swing wing and F-4 style intakes... they started with a MiG-21 variant and kept making changes until they got an acceptable design. The time frame was about: 1963-64 for Ye-8 with lift engine concepts, 1966 for the flying 23-01 prototype, and then about 1969 for several flying MiG-23 prototypes. They spent so much time figuring out what wouldn't work that they were left with almost completely different airplane than the starting point. That is what you can see in the development of the F-105 and F-17 (F/A-18) as well. But that doesn't alter the fact that the design started from an existing aircraft and gradually evolved over time. The Super Hornet is one more case to consider: while it looks very similar to the legacy F/A-18A/C Hornets, it is essentially a new aircraft, yet the first thing the Wiki entry says about it is that it is ultimately a derivative of the F-5.

The MiG-23 was an evolution of ongoing V/STOL work done on the MiG-21. I have the really big MiG-23 book that details the evolution of the MIG-21 that led to the MiG-23 that entered service. I won't waste my time scanning in the photos, but the MiG-23 is a derivative of the MiG-21 just as much as the F/A-18 is a derivative of the F-5. MiG spent many man-hours testing/changing the design to get the final form. Another example is the Su-15: it looks different, but it was an evolution of the Su-9/11. Another example of evolution that included a size change was: F-84F -> RF-84F -> F-105.

It happens, the reason 15 years ago I wrote a tutorial on "having 2 aircraft named the same" and how to keep them seperate. hint: as you've discovered, unique names

This was great. The Finns and the Rafale were show-stoppers.

Update.

Vickers-Supermarine Seafire Mk.IIIC - No.2 Squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1945

eastbound and down rollin up and truckin.... we got a long way to go and a short time to get there....

Avia S-199P - 2nd Fighter Regiment, Parani Air Force, 1947

Avro Vulcan B.2 (MRR) - No.27 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1991

Fresco

es muy tarde y no lo probé lo suficiente, pero solucione el inconveniente del mapa de Malvinas. y no hay quien pueda!!! cantaban los halcones.

for variant F, new quadruple bracket ER-4

First flight in the new version of the ODS30AE mod. Well, it would be rude not to..

Tiger II's

F-4S Phantom de 1.ª Escuadrilla Aeronaval de Ataque sale de ARA Guillermo Brown (V-5)

Vulcano, ¡cuidado!