В 2002 году средний годовой налет экипажей в родах авиации Военно-воздушных сил России составил от 20 до 50 часов.

“В истребительной авиации годовой налет экипажей в среднем составил более 25 часов, в штурмовой – около 30 часов, в бомбардировочной – свыше 20 часов. Средний налет экипажей Дальней авиации – около 25 часов, Военно-транспортной – более 50 часов”, – сообщил “Интерфаксу-АВН” в среду главнокомандующий ВВС генерал- полковник Владимир Михайлов.

http://www.aviaport.ru/digest/2003/01/15/43621.html

In 2002, fighter aviation 25 hrs, ‘Shturmoviks’ 30 hrs, Strategic aviation 25 hrs, military transport 50 hrs…

TR-1, how’s your Russian?:)

Probably 200-400 J-20 will be sufficient for PLAAF and PLANAF.

Will they ever get the J-20 to land on a carrier – I don’t see why not…

He was right on one thing – the influence of the MiG 1.4 is very evident on the J20.

The influence of the F-14 is very evident on the Su-27.;)

The most important factor for keeping old aircraft in the air is not finding parts for it or ease of maintainability, but on how much an air arm really wants to keep the aircraft type in service. Look at Iran’s F-4s and F-14s – why do they bother after 30 years of sanctions. Or look at the MiG-23/MiG-27 which is newer than the MiG-21 but is already out numbered by it. How many MiG-23s are still flying today out of the 6,000 built?

The CH-53 chasing Clint Eastwood at the beginning of ‘Firefox’.

Also in the film ‘Million Dollar Brain’, with Michael Caine as Harry Palmer, I remember seeing some Canberras painted up silver with red stars on them to imitate Soviet… let’s see now, Il-28s?:cool:

In terms of safety and integrity it is very rare to find evidence of any Soviet airliner crash involving fatigue or design induced airframe failure. The dreadful crash, in dubious circumstances, of the Tu144 in Paris is a very public exception to this.

The first 100 or so Tu-154s were prematurely removed from service in the early 1970s due to cracks appearing in the structure… ouch, pretty expensive…

Maybe if they changed the country from Australia to Israel the story might actually have some credibility. When the Israelis started building their own version of the Mirage 5, the Nesher/Dagger, it was believed at first that it was a reverse-engineered copy, without the aid of original blueprints/drawings. But now it’s often said that the Dassault did actually transfer the plans to the Israelis – without the French government’s say so…?:confused: