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  • September 18, 2004 at 7:44 pm in reply to: Vietnamese Air Force 2010 #2645661
    Arthur
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    Replacing Yak-52s with those Korean wannabe-PC-9s? Totally different aircraft class, never going to happen.

    September 17, 2004 at 7:35 pm in reply to: Corgie's Canberra #1437954
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    How about a Corgi of the flourescent orange B.2s9o used by the Luftwaffe as test-beds?

    Officially, they were weather-recon. Actually, they were electronic intelligence snooping that other Germany.

    Is a B-57G in the works? The one with that moveable gun in the bombbay would be nice, me thinks.

    September 17, 2004 at 7:26 pm in reply to: Nuisance caller… #1962270
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    Sing back something even more penetrating, although Stand and Deliver (…yoliyoliyooo…) is brilliant enough at that.

    Suggestions: Delilah (Tom Jones or Engelbert Humperdinck or whomever is now juicing up the elderly ladies in Las Vegas nowadays), Fernando (Abba), Row row row your boat, Boys (Sabrina), Rasputin (Boney M)…

    September 17, 2004 at 5:01 pm in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2646141
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    The A-40 at Gelendzhik, 2002, carried side number 20 – is the an LBG code ??

    No, it’s LBG code was 378. Somewhere that aircraft got it’s original bort number back: when i was at Taganrog in 1996, both A-40s were there. One 10r, one 378r. Another example: the T8-UT (or Su-25UT or Su-28 if you wish) dumped at Zhukovskii still has it’s LBG code 302 painted on.

    As for the bort numbers of the Lukhovitsy machines: they seem to be part of some sequential series. In 2001, there was a MiG-29UB on the MiG ramp at Zhukovskii with bort 139. It seems to fit in the same series as the aircraft above.

    September 17, 2004 at 4:05 pm in reply to: Picture challenge: Find the real aircraft! #2646184
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    The North Korean paintjob shown on Sean’s pics in my eyes looks more akin to the ‘standard’ MiG-29 camo (as it was on the original Czechoslovak, East German and some former Soviet machines in the Ukraine), and not the dark green/grey camo scheme as on the drawing.

    September 17, 2004 at 12:57 pm in reply to: Chinese EC135 (B7009) down today #2646301
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    Damn you Eurocopter, may your nomenclature rott in purgatory!

    I initially thought EC-135, quickly followed by WTF????

    September 17, 2004 at 12:48 pm in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2646314
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    Yes, but the 353 has been applied on theis aircraft ever since, must be something else…

    Who said the Le Bourget codes should be removed after the show? I believe the Burlak Tu-160 still has it’s LBG code, and when i saw both the Beriev A-40s in 1996, one still carried it’s Le Bourget code from three years earlier. Both Su-25s which visited LBG in 1991 also carried their three-digit LBG ‘borts’ for a very long time.

    September 17, 2004 at 12:41 pm in reply to: Let's try again: Russian school siege part deux #1962475
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    Anybody remember the Canadians caught beating up Serbs in Bosnia?
    I thought not…

    The Canadians also shot Croats – perfectly neutral if you ask me.

    September 16, 2004 at 8:19 pm in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2646644
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    Tail and fuselage borts collide more often than you’d think. The fin bort is often forgotten when an aircraft gets a new bort number. Seen it plenty of times on operational aircraft.

    September 16, 2004 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Songs with specific aircraft in the lyrics #1438659
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    Enola Gay from OMD surely does count? Not just a specific type, but a specific airframe.

    September 16, 2004 at 9:58 am in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2647018
    Arthur
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    Actually, three-digit codes are (when in VVS service) mostly reserved for training aircraft, like the weapon school’s MiG-21s at Barnaul.

    These three-digit numbers appear to be sequential, which could be for any sort of reason. The bort numbers were likely painted on by the Lukhovitsy plant itself – perhaps even based on the line number?

    September 16, 2004 at 9:32 am in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2647030
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    The line numbers are on the construction plate inside the wheelbay, and are different from the five-digit c/n which is far more commonly known. And, with a little luck, printed all across the airframe.

    September 16, 2004 at 9:30 am in reply to: Greek AF Commander Dismissed #2647035
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    Must….resist…..very….tasteless….joke…..
    thanks Phillipp!

    September 15, 2004 at 10:24 pm in reply to: Greece vs Turkey #2647290
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    Turkey has a hugely powerful Tunesian AF????

    September 15, 2004 at 10:10 pm in reply to: Strange MiG-29s at Lukhovitsy #2647329
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    Well, if anyone has bothered to check the line numbers (which are not the construction numbers :diablo: ), you could check which production batch they are.

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