FESTIVAL AEREO 2004 FAE
GUAYAQUIL-ECUADOR

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What a sexy little plane, way to go FAE 😎
Got any more of these pictures by any chance, ecuatoriano? 🙂
BTW a weird configuration – P3 on one side and P4 on the other 😎

Nice stick. I have one of my own just like it 😉
Straight from an Israeli AF Kurnass-2000. Now that’s what I call second hand from a pilot 😀
(watch out falks, high quality pics)
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=E93F8A555D20D3E6E53E13E0155C5A38
When that Israeli pilot said that “the Phantom fights you, and you got to really kick the stick to make it turn”, he meant it, and as you can see it’s well kicked:
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=57672D5C5CEA5266F5AF9D2B6B038D73
Straight from St. Louis:
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=84F297C455A71B29CADC8B2B038E65E7
How about a USB connection :confused: :
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=BAF4E8EBBC4D77F78F408036E875C809
And finally, with his brothers in the background:
http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=439A7B65AE64DBC3B75EB705DF331692

Were they going to the toilet? “Doing what they had to” sounds like they were going to the toilet.

If so, yuck. Nothing is more unsexy than a chick taking a dump….

I couldn’t agree more :dev2:

I just got back from the Negev, where something more or less similar happened:
There was a big drill that morning, that included tanks and helicopters that were firing missiles, so we were adviced to stay in the same place for a few hours.
While resting, a group of girls went to do what they had to do. A few minutes later, a UH-60 appeared from nowhere, about 20 meters above us and directly where these girls were. I only later realized that the pilots might have “enjoyed the view” :diablo:

Living in a country with military censorship your internal view is limited by national intrests to be polite. Most data and infos about the “Lavi-project” came from companies related to that project and idependent foreign publications. Similar to Merkava, most parts came from those at first. During the development an infrastructure had to built-up to produce those parts domestically. Licences still pay for sharing the production know-how. The whole thing does work only, when built in high numbers and cheap Israeli labour. To achive that high numbers, Lavi had to be exported very fast, to ease the burden of developing.
None saw the benefit of an Israeli F-16 clone. Where to export with such a high content of US-restricted parts. Israels economy was so weak in the 80s after costly Lebanon war. Israel could not take the offer like Turkey did, to manufacture further purchases of F-16 at home. In my opinion, Israel was lucky by that. No white elephant to keep alive with tax-payers money.
Have someone an idea, how many licences were taken by China to keep its aviation industry going?!

I don’t want to get into this discussion again. It’s unrelated to the topic of the thread.
About the censorship – from the moment the project was cancelled, and even more, throughout the years, most of the information, whether technical or just personal stories, were released.

Will the IAI or Elbit (or any other Israeli company) be displaying there?

???
Edi, don’t you have better things to do other than writing all these unrelated BS?
Heck, it’s not even related in any rational manner to the quote you added that was written by nani!.
And what’s with the “influenced” thing?
The Kfir is based over the Mirage V. Period (why are we talking about it on an ‘Lavi VS J-10’ thread anyway??).
“Inagruably”? “the flow of F-16 technology for which the Lavi is so dependent”?
1) That’s your own personal (and IMHO, uneducated) view of the Lavi project. We’ve been through it so many times. One and a half years ago, when I registered to this forum, I did it in order to get into a discussion about the Lavi project. Ever since then I hear people like you talking about how the Lavi is an F-16 variant, and while I always show proofs and evidents it isn’t, the BS celebration goes on.
2) It’s unrelated in any manner to the original topic, which itself is pretty much pointless as we don’t have enough info about the J-10.

PS: No offence meant, you are still my favorite forum crazy 😉 :diablo:

Mr Erez. It is clearly a spine and probably used for fuel or avionics. Since the two seater has less space for fuel (that is mostly the effect of another seat) they need any space for fuel. The center location is superb. I think if the avionics will get better quality then they will start adding there some decent parts. Sofar it is just a two seater with a small spine.

Actually, I don’t think that the adding of a second seat caused a dramatic (if any) reduction in the amount of fuel that plane could carry. If anything, I think that the adding of a second seat might have caused a need for some avionics to be moved to a different location. That’s one of the reasons that, IMHO, they created the spine.