I always felt L-159 was a safe design, the poor man’s Hawk. Not unlike the old MB-series of trainers. It would be nice to see the design proliferate although Aero probably needs L-39NG to be successful to have future.

With Russia dropping out of the conventional arms treaty you just might see designs like L-159 and AMX suddenly become en vogue again. Simple. Modern. Affordable. Still relevant.

Counter rotation of single blades would be seriously less drag in forward flight, but vibration from hell in hover. You go multiple blades for lowered vibration and hence less noise. But hey, two bladed flight has been around in monoplanes for a long time so you know it works in concept.

This is better…

http://www.mycity-military.com/slika.php?slika=226411_118647115_18b2p4M.jpg

Sorry, doesn’t appear for some unless they go to the website…

mauriobaggio-

Please refrain from the constant negativity in this thread. You’ve reached the point where people are fatigued.

It could look like anything 🙂

About ten thousand engineers would have been out of work. It’s hard to justify spending without jobs pegged to the task. The rocket and aerospace industries have been hemorrhaging people not much different than when the Soviets fell. How many of our old secrets became cheap? The only solution was a rebuild of all the interfaces (electronic, mechanical, etc.) and UAI accomplished far more than that.

EA-6B had this side by side seating in two sets. 🙂

I’m surprised the old long range jets really haven’t been replaced by new long range jets.

It takes a lot of air tankers to get long range strike like the old F-111’s and A-6’s.