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  • April 29, 2007 at 10:37 am in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2537723
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    Just for a change, the old jets of the Albanian Air Force

    April 28, 2007 at 11:22 am in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2538051
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    Let’s keep it up like this. More EAF stuff .

    April 27, 2007 at 6:02 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2538182
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    something went wrong with the first attempt, sorry.

    April 27, 2007 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2538186
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    Here comes one.

    April 26, 2007 at 9:33 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2538396
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    Flex mate, as always you are the best.

    Dingodog, glad to contribute to the thread my friend.

    April 25, 2007 at 10:53 pm in reply to: Small Air Forces Thread #8, for Pictures and Discussion. #2538600
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    Since I feel deeply impressed by all EAF picks I am also jumping into the fray 🙂

    April 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm in reply to: Aircraft With Weird-Looking Modifications #2543168
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    Tupolev, Tu 134 ULB

    April 7, 2007 at 12:20 am in reply to: Chinese News, Photos, and Speculation #10 #2544640
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    In case this was not put here before here it is 🙂

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=374dbc294c&p=1

    April 6, 2007 at 1:02 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2544934
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    This is an example:

    April 5, 2007 at 9:46 pm in reply to: Aircraft With Weird-Looking Modifications #2545062
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    This is one of the Chinese modifications of the J-5 alias MiG 17.

    April 5, 2007 at 7:51 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2545110
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    I did some homework and looked through few publications on the MiG 19, in particular the 4+ one.

    Apparently, in addition to the already discussed here drag chute container and wing pylon the J-6 has a number of external specific details, typical of the Chinese production such as :

    Canons without muzzle brake.
    UHF blade antenna on the port nose
    Repositioned auxiliary Pitot head

    April 4, 2007 at 10:58 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2545522
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    I looked a bit through the net and found this description on Iraqi F-6-s:

    The Iraqis obtained some MiG-19S fighters in the early 1960s, but later sold them all off, though the survivors did see some action against the Kurds in the 1970s. In 1983, during the Iran-Iraq War, the Iraqis obtained a batch of F-6s through Egypt, while the Iranians acquired a batch of their own F-6s. Neither side made that much use of them during the conflict, and there are no records of MiG-on-MiG dogfights.

    April 3, 2007 at 10:39 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2546058
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    Flex and Arthur,

    I do not pretend to be an expert on the Shenyang F-6 but I have the impression that early batch machines produced mostly until the end of the 60′ doesn’t sport the ruder base drag chute while later batch aircraft produced in the early 70′ do have this feature.

    The PAF example shown above is probably one of those received during the 60′. The Iraqi examples were apparently put together in Egypt from shipped components, making use of the Egyptian experiencewith the type they acquired for the EAF by the end of the 70′. Thus the logical assumption that Iraqi machines were of a late batch production, similar to those used by the EAF.

    I have several more picture to illustrate this but I am afraid this could bring us slightly of topic.

    April 3, 2007 at 5:42 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2546178
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    Flex,

    Thank you for putting the photo here. It is quite interesting indeed but I have one doubt though if it is a F-6 or a MiG 19 S. My incertitude comes for the fact that I don’t see the cylindric shaped drag chute container at the ruder base which is a typical feature of all Shenyang F-6 produced after the 60′. Maybe we can bring some light into this?

    Thanks again for your kindness

    LIKA

    April 2, 2007 at 8:51 pm in reply to: The old Iraqi air force #2546639
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    Flex,

    Forgive for my ineptitude but I tried the link you posted and I am unable to find the F-6 photo in question. Any more help on this please ?

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