With so many of you posting pix of your flights, I’d suggest you might as well post some video captures as well of your own simulations. Perhaps 5 seconds clips could do for starters?

How could anyone man or bird see the spiral once the engine has been run up.
Unless they have strobe vision!

Dude.. read all the posts again. Birds have better framing rate than humans. Hence… !

Yeah … sonic booms.. extremely high decibels.. buffets .. and not to mention the high risk of an untoward incident.
However, the Russian pilots were the pioneers in doing the ‘face-to-face’ (i.e 2 jets screaming towards e/other and pass through within a few ..er yards of each other at high speeds). Of course, these stunts are passe nowadays but they were the first !! I wont be surprised if they take the entire length of their a/craft through the hole (pun intended).

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Overly risky stunt.

I mean that is a perfectly good hole. Who knows what kind of damage a big Flanker could do to natural rock formations of this sort?

READ in block letters – AIRBRUSHED PICTURES !! Even a kid proficient with Photoshop could decipher the fake boom graphics.

Wheres the vapour?. Why is the vapour trial so back and already spreading our?

Comparison

But if this picture is legit. The F-18 sonic boom is pretty impressive

This could be a result of the recent bonhomie of the two nations. If India does give the kinds of facilities the Americans are asking for, then it would be certainly to
contain the Chinese potential presence in Bay of Bengal.

Americans asking for such facilities is not new – and should not be treated as novelty in recent times. Getting strategic points around the globe in the name of R&R / Refuelling facilties & what nots, has always been on their agenda – weather u like it or not. They even knocked on Vietnam’s doors to get renewed & greater access to their famed former base – CAM RANH BAY !!!

Refering to the report (on the link) Personally, I’d say an outright NO … weather the Indian Navy has access to the Pacific or not !! And in any case, what would an assumed benefit of Indian Navy bring in the Pacific bring to India ???

http://srirangan.net/india-defence/node/266

Found this on the net. But am not quite sure if it is true. It would be surprising if India agreed access to mumai and vizag.

HI Aditya, according to the TOI report dated November 2003, they were to go for the US Customs Dept. Here’s the link to the article. THere are quite a few other sites where this speculative news has been around but nothing concrete has come out of it.

On another note, the guys in HAL really must push hard for the Latin American markets. It is a huge market (nonetheless a fairly risque one when it comes to currencies fluctuations et al).