FSW are a very large solution to a relatively small problem, and that very large solution brings problems of it’s own again. Don’t forget that none of the FSW aircraft built until today (except for marginally swept Blanik gliders and the handful HFB320 bizjets) was actually flown for a somewhat realistic lifespan. Especially if you consider that at high speeds, FSW will suffer a lot more strain than any other sort of wing.

Anyone who has seen the Su-47 fly must agree that the thing is wobbly like hell – don’t know if the same was true for the X-29, but it didn’t give me a lot of faith in the whole idea of FSW.

There were lots of F-16 systems put in the X-29 though. Landing gear, seat, cockpit, part of the FCS and quite a bit of other stuff.

How does the movie deal with Hughes’ latest years of total lunacy? Apart from aviation, one of my other gazillion interests is psychotics and that definately applies to HH in his final years.

Is the Il-80 ‘Maxdome’ operational??

Or has it been put out of service..

Three operational at Chkalovskii: RA-86147, RA-86148 and RA-86149.

Only Diego Garcia-based websites i can find still running are the Navy meteo site at https://207.133.112.31/ (doesn’t mention anything), and a wireless company (at http://www.cwnetdg.io/ but nothing interesting there either).

Nothing on af.mil yet either.

Quit whining about moderation or lack thereof. If you think ‘your’ threads on country X are dealt with more strictly than ‘their’ threads on country Y, it might have something to do with the way things are expressed, rather than some percieved bias. You might be surprised how much more you can get away with as long as you know how to decently formulate it.

If someone tries to prove a point by bringing in off-topic stuff, it’s perfectly logical when that off-topic itself gets debated. If you don’t want that to happen, don’t bring it up.

Nitin and others, stop making generalising remarks. Adress your complaints to one person, not against a whole group (especially not if the only way to define that group is a nationality).

So gentlemen, please behave.

GRRRR

naval aviation has 150 of them

long range aviation around 100

hmmz.. i hope most survive.. they are just so sleek and i can just imagine a wave of them massacaring some carrier group 😀

See the Sean;s Myths-thread, especially post #37 at http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=549580&postcount=37
Also, your numbers are way too high.