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July 10, 2005 at 12:42 pm in reply to: the coolest looking jet fighter – top 10 #2619256

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Not in any specific order

F-15C
Rafale
Typhoon
Mirage 4000
Su-34 Platypus
YF-23
Tu-160
Vulcan

Regarding the Rafale/Typhoon two seaters personally I think ALL of the last two generations of two seaters look hideous. The Tomcat was designed for two from the outset so it looks okay as do the twin canopies of the F-4 and F-105G but the giant bubbles of the two-seater F-16, F-15, F-18, Flanker, Rafale, and Typhoon all look ghastly. Typically if I’m looking for good pictures I don’t even bother downloading any of the two-seaters.

Agreed! Especially the Typhoon one is 😮 😮

June 16, 2005 at 12:15 pm in reply to: Type 82 #2044443

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Thanks Steve

I really should have looked there 🙂

June 16, 2005 at 11:44 am in reply to: Type 82 #2044456

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Anyone has any detailed info on the Ikara ASW missile ? It always appeared to me as a somewhat obscure system, plus it always intrigued me the fact that its concept was not continued in following designs.

June 9, 2005 at 6:15 pm in reply to: It is official . Brazil will buy used M2000C from French with RDi 5.2 radar #2634470

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and the french idea behind MICA is to be a single weapon that does “everything” instead of the most known combos such as:
R-73/R-77, Amraam/AIM9, Python/Derby, etc etc etc.

But you still have two missiles, MICA EM ( is that how it’s called ? the ARH one ) and MICA IR.

I don’t think that this is a such bad move as some are portraying it to be, especially in other places ( right Charlie ? 🙂 ), but then I understand their fears that the Mirage 2000 will in the end hang on forever on the FAB, like the Mirage III.

June 9, 2005 at 6:06 pm in reply to: Mirage 2000-5 Question (and pics) #2634495

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UAEF M-2000 photo is truely spectacular especially the sun’s reflection in the glass cockpit.

Yep, I agree, that scheme is awesome. But the Mirage 2000 is a so nice plane that it looks good with any.

[photo by Franck Cabrol, whom I think also comes here]

May 31, 2005 at 8:30 pm in reply to: P-3 Orion Thread #2638879

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This FAP P-3P s/n 14806 has just been restored to flying conditions and has been moved to the FAP Museum, with the near arrival of the former dutch P-3Cs.

(photo by Didier Kories)

May 27, 2005 at 11:26 pm in reply to: BATTLE against Indians & Americans #2047242

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And why exactly Goa ?

Is there any naval/air base there ?

May 24, 2005 at 7:33 pm in reply to: Dr. Carlo Kopp and the Chinese air threat to Australia :) #2642599

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Let me guess, dr Koop’s answer to this menace to the survival of Australia would be a mix of F-111s and F-22s 😀

May 23, 2005 at 11:16 pm in reply to: New Russion multirole fighter-bomber … or just a what-if ! #2643276

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It reminds me of the Stavatti F-26 Stalma 🙂

May 20, 2005 at 5:51 pm in reply to: YOU WOULDNT BELIEVE THIS!!!! #2645892

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or this one

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/911_pentagon_757_plane_evidence.html

But, yeah, conspiracy theories are fun to read 🙂

May 7, 2005 at 2:36 pm in reply to: Alouette III users and pics ? #2606209

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Some recent pics of the Alouette III still in service in the Portuguese Air Force:

April 29, 2005 at 9:36 pm in reply to: FLYING DISCS #2609663

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My dyslexic mistake on the title.

I will defer to your expertise on the subject; the author if I understand correctly, writes or used to write for Aviation Week & Space Technology.

As for the US plundering a nazi technology . . . the whole US Space program began as plundered nazi technology . . .

no problem 🙂

The author, at least at the time of the books’s writing, was the Aviation Editor editor of Jane’s Defense Weekly.

My main problem with that theory of antigravity proposed is that, for it to work, contradicts current scientific knowledge. IF ( a big if 🙂 ) the nazis or someone else had discovered some kind of antigravity 60 years ago, it would be impossible for anyone to hold that secret for so long.

Rgds

April 29, 2005 at 4:37 pm in reply to: FLYING DISCS #2609835

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You should read the book “The Search for Point Zero” (I don’t recall the author’s name); it will give you a lot of information, but it will also leave you with a lot of very interesting questions.

It’s “The hunt for Zero Point” by Nick Cook.

Quite an interesting read but I doubt much of what’s in it ( basically he says that the US plundered a nazi technology that allowed antigravity and mach6 flights…)

March 28, 2005 at 1:13 pm in reply to: Winningest Fighter #2628172

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http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_210.shtml

March 23, 2005 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Rafale vs. Eurofighter in BVR #2630326

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Well, the mica IR is also a possible BVR weapon for the rafale. And an IIR missile is very difficult to jam…especially when you don’t know it is traking you : the final phase of the mica IR interception is completly passive. IMHO, the mica IR is far more dangerous than the mica EM or the amraam.

What will be the mica IR’s role ? Will it replace the Magic family of missiles ( dunno the most current one), or will it be just a complement of the MICA EM for BVR missions ?
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