from the link given above:

The other 12 helicopters are Mi-2 armoured transports.

what are they (I know what a Mi-2 is)?

If they are Mi-2, it leads me to believe that the Mi-24s are also pre-used. Does Mil still produce a helicopter with the designation ‘Mi-24’?

I can remember watching a history/archaeology documentary on the TV were they located the remains of J.F. Kennedy’s PT boat in the Pacific. There wasn’t much left of the original (timber) hull, but you could still see the two Curtiss P-40 powerplant lookalike engines lying side-by-side, as they have done for the last 65 years or so…

If it is an old MTB I wonder what’s propelling it? Didn’t most British and American MTBs or PTs use V-12 aero engines – Merlins and Allison V-1710, etc?

Well obviously, I’m not saying the Skyshark and Gannet are exactly the same – do you not see any similarities though?

Edit: I just wanted an excuse to post a picture of a cool looking plane, that was all…

Didn’t quite land in a forest, the ‘tushka’ landed on a disused airfield and overshot the edge of the runway into the forest. Photos:

http://komionline.ru/news/22489

http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/volodya-66/album/120267?p=0

on the topic of Tupolevs:

Single engine in airframe connected to twin propellors – Tupolev T-91 ‘BOOT’:

http://airwar.ru/enc/bomber/tu91.html

Using the Su-27 as some sort of DACT combat trainer – bit big and expensive, isn’t it? The American ‘Top-Guns’ use F-5E and F-16N, which are surely more cost effective, if I was going to set up an air combat school in pricey Western Europe, those are the types I would use. And who’s going to be the instructors, and through what language are they going to teach, English? Russian?

but Putin is so much manlier and tags whales with a cross bow and does manly stuff all the time right? In fact he is practically a fighter pilot……

And water-bomber pilot and Tu-160 pilot – the man’s background in aviation is amazing…:rolleyes:

But seriously, it sometimes seems that when a Lockheed Martin employee, a USAF officer or a testpilot says something that puts the F-35 in a good light, the statement is immediately rubbished as PR propaganda – when somebody makes a statement on the T-50, it’s immediately accepted as the gospel truth. Double standard.