Are the Russians drunk again?
Be nice. They may yet have to bail out your government (nice grammar btw).
Engine placement & alignment vis-a-vis LEVCON and hence intake:
Here’s something else. The circumference of the top-half of that metal engine casing is smaller than the lower half. Hence only the top-side can be indicative of engine alignment & positioning. It also explains that slight and unusual divergence of the nozzles.
Therefore trying to assess engine placement using bottom elevation is mis-leading, as for the topside, it’s pretty clear & speaks for itself, as posted above (in the AN-124).
Is it an unreasonable supposition that the centre (lateral axis) of the comp. face is in-line with the LEVCON root?
…’blind freddies’ need not respond.
These ‘bracket’-type things are something to do with the comp-face mounting, they’re similar to the ones found on the Su-35. Hence a reasonable deduction is that the cf has a ‘high’ installation, note the height difference between the front intake lip and the engine bays (which themselves are not indicative of the mounting angle & elevation).
The intakes have curves galore, definitely the most baadaass intake design yet conceived by man, wind-tunnel & supercomputer.
It would require only subtle alignment variations to hide a substantial %age (if not all) of the cf.
I mean, how stupid must one be to do something like that?? ;)…
How stupid must one be to imply something like that? 😉
Lysenko my hero:
I’d wager there’s at least one KnAAPO employee who hasn’t stopped laughing since it’s ‘leak’.
The aspect ratio appears all wrong, compare:
I have a v.hi-res (4.21MB) version of that infamous pic, I’ve just tinkered with the brightness/contrast etc and the entire metallic engine section (topside) has been removed (should be easily visible from that camera angle), not even an outline. That pic is mischief indeed!! 😉
…the entire structure upon which that all moving fin is based- has been removed…
Pass the sherry Watson- this case is closed.
Yip, she flew again yesterday…
…yesterday would’ve been an excellent photo-op. Good weather/light and T-50 & T-10M-8 flying in pairs, let’s wait ‘n see.
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