The World's Latest Warbird, An Su27!!

Allow me to vent green….

uuugh. :rolleyes:

Trendy political projects are already vying for the demise of general aviation without warbird enthusiasts jumping on board. There is obviously no green purpose behind flying any warbird…so maybe they should all be grounded to save the human race from dying some hot horrible death? Methinks humanity is far too full of itself!

…or were you being facetious? 😀

However it is pronounced it is still an amazing acheivement to get this one back in the air but would anyone other than a modern military pilot ever be able to fly it.
If you had the money and inclination to buy a WW2 warbird like a Mustang or Spitfire it is possible, with the right approach and tuition, to work up from a PPL to the point where you can fly new pride and joy.
I appreciate that with a pilot with the appropriate experience on board an owner could go along for the ride in a SU-27 and may get a bit of stick time but, even assuming the owner had a bottomless pit of money for fuel, maintenance etc, I would have thought that graduating from a PPL to fly this unaided must be impossible.
I wouldn’t like to pick up the fuel, maintenance or insurance bills either!

But it is preceded by ‘An’ rather than ‘A’…….

So it reads ‘An Ess-you’ rather than ‘A Soo’.

You can’t say ‘An Soo’ – at least not where I come from.

Anyway, its all a bit pedantic…….

Merry Christmas

Ken

Ah, very true Ken! Apologies. I must admit I have a habit of saying ‘Ess-You’, even if it is written correctly! You’ve found me out… 🙂

A Merry Christmas to you too!

Hmmm I’d have thought ‘SU’ would have looked more like ‘Ess-You’. It’s typed as ‘Su’ in the title and first post…

But it is preceded by ‘An’ rather than ‘A’…….

So it reads ‘An Ess-you’ rather than ‘A Soo’.

You can’t say ‘An Soo’ – at least not where I come from.

Anyway, its all a bit pedantic…….

Merry Christmas

Ken

Hmmm I’d have thought ‘SU’ would have looked more like ‘Ess-You’. It’s typed as ‘Su’ in the title and first post…

It’s in the thread title ‘The world’s latest warbird – an Su-27’

That reads ‘AN Ess-you 27′ rather than ‘A Soo-27’.

Sorry for being so anal …… it’s just a pet peeve.

Ken

Most of us have got pet peeves i expect -mine happens to be those aircraft models made out of mahogany:(!

Am I missing something?- I’ve only ever seen it written as Su-er… from … Sukhoi

It’s in the thread title ‘The world’s latest warbird – an Su-27’

That reads ‘AN Ess-you 27′ rather than ‘A Soo-27’.

Sorry for being so anal …… it’s just a pet peeve.

Ken

to be honest my friend, if you have the money to pay for it, i cant see the problem

Allow me to vent green….

Seems like a bloody waste of jet fuel…along with the Vulcan (sorry) and most business jet flights.

I don’t mind fuel being used for good reasons, but making noise and allowing minor celebrities the ability to fly without being bothered by “normal” people are silly.

Am I missing something?- I’ve only ever seen it written as Su-er… from … Sukhoi

Can we please stop calling it ‘AN ESS-YOU 27’……. :confused:

It’s a SOO 27 – Su from the OKB creator’s last name – Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi

Soo khoi – Soo 27.

Back to the normal programme now…….

Ken

Any offers yet ??

I did a trouser shame:o

LOL!!-and some more LOL!!

At the risk of going off-topic, does anyone remember that the MiG-29 that first appeared at Farnborough in 1988 was placarded in English? Anyone know why, apart from a Russian sense of humour? There was a theory going the rounds that the placarding was bog-standard Nato stuff, and had the Cold War had suddenly got hot the Russians could have rolled up at any Nato base and “persuaded” the local ground crews to do the necessaries. Or was that just paranoid gossip?
I’ve got a negative somewhere I’ll get scanned in.

This may have been a MiG-29S (Fulcrum-C) or an export -29SE, the English language cockpit being more marketable.

The aircraft have been restored and relabeled (Russian placards don’t help English-reading pilots)
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1532-full.html#201675

At the risk of going off-topic, does anyone remember that the MiG-29 that first appeared at Farnborough in 1988 was placarded in English? Anyone know why, apart from a Russian sense of humour? There was a theory going the rounds that the placarding was bog-standard Nato stuff, and had the Cold War had suddenly got hot the Russians could have rolled up at any Nato base and “persuaded” the local ground crews to do the necessaries. Or was that just paranoid gossip?
I’ve got a negative somewhere I’ll get scanned in.

Purely for arguments sake, what is to prevent a millionaire in this country from buying and operating an Su-27 here?
I’m assuming that the type is still heavily supported by manufacturers Sukhoi, so the example is very different to true warbird types such as Lightnings etc.

And no, I haven’t won the Euromillions!

FAB!

I did a trouser shame:o

A Hair under 5 million is what there asking!! Cheap if you ask me but then I don’t have the dosh or the sphere’s to fly it anyway!!

http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm