Well the C-21A was a Learjet. Is that close enough?
edit: Why didn’t they just take over some surplus USAF C-21A’s? They retired a few dozen in recent years if I heard right.
Forget Gripen NG, more likely secondhand Gripens would fill an order.

The best stealth doesn’t rely on pure shape, but rather material technologies to reduce the signature. You would not be able to keep it that small. This is why the stealth cruise missiles are not a huge improvement over the old designs except when it comes to hiding the fan from the radar reflections. There isn’t enough size to work with in a small cruise missile, using material to absorb radar just saps its performance down too much.
Vulcan XM573 is still in Nebraska. I found out its at the SAC Aerospace Museum along I-80.
I don’t squeeze tinner rivets when a strike plate does the job proper.
I do squeeze the handles on a pop riveter. 🙂
We used to have a Vulcan body here at Offutt AFB/STRATCOM. Anyone know what happened to her?
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Whenever I hear hand rivets I think of pop rivets. I’m hoping you are using tinner rivets on an airplane project rather than pop rivets. For the sealed rivet holes you would want to use the solid cored tinner rivets or closed end pop rivets if its not high stress. You have a guy hold a strike plate on one side and use an pneumatic hammer to spread the head. Pre-heating is recommended on the largest tinner rivets. And anytime you cannot afford the rivet to fail use a netsert.
Correction, it was a good solution until engine technology surpassed the efficiency. For a 15% weight penalty you can have tvc in comparison. What would you rather have, swing wings or tvc?
Damn, MiG’s design team looks like they broke old ground. Clearly influences from both Sukhoi and McDonnell-Douglas in there.


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It does look like an SU-35, the hump in back protrudes far aft.
Very cool news. Let’s hope the U.S. doesn’t bully pulpit the deal before its completed.
WTF has that got to do with F-14s presumably in Soviet hands?
The 6th fleet lost just an A-6 and an A-7 back than.
Yeah, we never almost lost a tarps package to the slavs. Just like a pair of F-14’s just happened to crash for no apparent reasons on the same day four came under fire from Syrian guns and missiles.