Flogger…if you look very very attentive to the Khazakh MiG-29 photo you`ll notice something very very peculiar. Look bellow the horizontal stabilisor. You`ll notice a counter-direction (sorry for my English). I thought that aerodinamic arrangement was used only on the prototypes. Are those Khazakh Mig-29s still flying?

The Koreans also bought Mi-17s.

The Mi-38 will have two types of engines. The VK-2500 for Russian market and the P&W for the western market.

TinWing..you make it sound the Mi-38 will cost quite a fortune. Of course it`ll be a little expensive, but I think it`ll be cheaper the NH-90 and EH-101. So, you pay a little more for lifting capabilities higher than the Mi-17 for lower flying costs. And the Mi-17 is a proven helicopter…flying for 25 years now. If the political bullcrap prejudice wouldn`t be as it is, I think the Mi-38 will be a winner.

Ink, over 80 countries use the Mi-17. This helicopter is living its second youth with the latest upgrades. We`ll still see the Mi-17 in the skies for quite a while…at least 25 years.

Is it me…or under the wing is what I think it is (unguided rockets pod) ? I would really like to see them fire the rockets.

SERBMIG…it`s really hard to read your posts. Could you use some punctuation marks?…you know…like..commas…exclamation marks…question marks….it would make the reading a lot easier.

The SU-30MK does the extended Cobra falling…while the OVT does it horisontaly. I find it more impresive done horisontaly than falling.

The Merlin can fly very well with only two engines.

Comparing an airliner with a helicopter..isn`t that of a bright idea…I mean…a MiG-21 reaches Mach2 with only one engine 😛 Does that mean Merlin is able to reach Mach6 ? 😀 Not even Airwolf reached Mach6 and it had 2 engines…and 2 boosters.

I’ve seen a video showing a Rafale catapulted from CDG and immediatly doing a looping and goes as close to the sea that reactors letted a trace over the sea…

There is a video showing a Thunderbirds F16 doing the same from an airfield and crashed.

Nothing impressive in this Typhoon looping at plein power and from a security haltitude.

From what I know…the Thunderbirds F-16 incident was because the pilot set his altimeter wrong. The figure he had to do was a Split S. It wasn`t because F-16 isn`t able to do the figure.

and if you look, the bird enters the engine to the left of the screen, indicating an air intake on the starboard side of the fuselage

BARNOWL

That`s actually port. I have this video for quite a while and when I downloaded it the info said it was a British Hawk.