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For a moment I thought he had jettisoned the tank but the thing got stuck, so the whole plane dropped..........

I used to collect an avaiation mag in the 80's called Warplane. It would have a centre section pull out of a featured plane every month. In this section they would have a cutaway drawing of the featured plane. If it were a Soviet plane the cutaway would just be the outline with a seat in it, lol, and the article would have phrases in it like 'believed to be' assumed to be' engine in the XXXLbs class'.

Well, either way, the film studio did a Movie Aircraft that was 'close'. Faceting for stealth was not in the popular press for stealth craft, as depicted in your picture above. The 80's Idea for stealth was versions of the SR-71, flattened out and capable of hypersonic, plasma assisted flight! Personally the actual F-117 was a let down, subsonic, ugly and in reality not even a fighter. AHh those were the days, the cold war spawned endless avaiation marvels and speculations, no?

35 Years ago! I am just saying that the PAK from that angle in that instance has a passing resemblance of the FF. Especially the nose and fuselage directly behind. The intakes help also. But yes I agree the YF-23 is closer to the mark.

Thats interesting, as the real MIG-31 is a close relation of the 25.

I manage to find a silver one?

Yes he was on thin ice for a while. Well even by 1982 the faceting of the nose was interesting as this would later show up on the F-117, someone must have given him a nudge in that direction.

Bingo, all it needs are some engine intakes above and a canard. Makes me wonder who Craig Thomas was talking to when he was researching the book.

Have a look at the attached picture, now imagine the plane is painted black. Remind you of anything? Cryptic I know, but after a few guesses I'll say what I think it looks like, just wanna see if it's just me.

A Horse designed by a committee is a Camel. Reminds me of the time the guy in charge of the TSR2 program was in a meeting and like 24 people turned up, he said to them that was for too many and they would scrap the meeting until next week when he would expect 9 attendees. The next week 26 turned up. Everyone thought they were too important to miss the meeting.

If it is a copy of the F-22 then will it have similar problems? The more I read about the 22 the more it looks like thing was over designed, too many gadgets and virgin technology that could have been added later. Just my 2p.

Did anyone hear of a rearward firing R-73 Archer? I found this article about the AIM-132 and in it was a line or two about the Russian version. Here is a clip of the article and a link. 'It is worth noting that over-the-shoulder launching is a fundamentally different approach to that taken by the Russians, who have addressed this problem by producing a rearward firing variant of the R-73 Archer, the R-73R, which uses an additional booster to overcome the aircraft's forward velocity. The rearward firing Archer is cued by the Flanker's NIIP N-O12 tail warning radar.' http://www.ausairpower.net/API-ASRAAM-Analysis.html Just like Clint in Firefox, Sci-fi to Sci-fact......

Nobody?

Hi all I have been playing the hell out of the SF2 I Lebanon campaign and after a while decided that the Mig21's were a bit easy. Decided to download a Syrian Mig-29 from here and changed the 21's in the campaign to 29's. But they don't appear, even changed the 29's data file to have a service start year of 1979. Nada. Copied exactly the entries from other campaigns I have done this in but still no luck. Is this because this is a stock campaign or is there something else you have to do to get this to work? Baffled.

http://www.ejection-history.org.uk/ Interesting site of all known Ejections.

The nuke effect is not included, do you know where I can get it? Also the linear payload, there is no options for it unless I remove the specific station code line, I think I am missing something.