Im quite sure with all his contacts in the military Yeager is kept abreast of developments. Consider the fact that these military contacts will tell Yeager ..

Given the age of him, most of his friends in the military already retired or death. And to be honest, there is absolutely no reason for a military contractors to share classified information with an old retired test pilot ( if it is the kind of information that can get them fired or face prison time) , like what the heck would they gain by doing that? asking for advice? Yeager is just a test pilot

the truth that they wont tell the general public, for fear of reprisals from the Pentagon for not toeing the political line..

Well, all the new that we got about the problems of F-22 and F-35 came from the USAF and Pentagon, so if the 2 aircraft are a waste of money and they dont want the public to know the truth, then why the heck would they bothered report bad news? what the point ?

I find it rather interesting because in this kind of thread sometimes we get to read very interesting and informative post from knowledgeable people like Andraxxus

But we will also get nonsense post from member like JSR

Without any details analysis to explain why , this kind of thread is a waste of bandwidth

So i followed your suggestion and was able to convert GIF to BPG using this https://www.reaconverter.com/convert/gif_to_bpg.html software , the files size reduced significantly from 19 MB to just over 500 KB, too bad though WordPress doesnt recognize .BPG files type and neither is most software in my laptop, I already tried to convert GiF to GiFv but WordPress doesnt allow me to upload video. Anyways i optimized the GIF abit , reduce their colour and resolution a tiny bit so now the front page is only half the size ( 10.1 MB now as opposed to 19.5 MB before so hopefully the loading time would be more bearable ( unless you are from Australia , in which case the loading time would be enomous for some weird reason that i havent been able to figure out why )

According to https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx , people that are not from China will load the blog in seconds

It such a shame that this website isn’t nearly as popular as these BS blog from Picard and the like.

There are a few reasons for that
1- This website is new, Picard blog, APA has been created for several years already, given enough time they will be equally popular
2-While this website give a lot of knowledge, it doesn’t have any “this vs that” sort of comparison, you know that what internet fan boy interested in. Even if the comparison is very dumb.
3- These posts are too long because they need to covered such a big topic. Most people are very lazy to read, they like something simple and being spoon feed to them

Actually, few times I have posted the video interview where the chief test pilot Sergey Bogdan claims that the PAK FA is superior to Su-35 in all cardinal performance parameters (that it has better thrust to weight ratio and lower wing loading, better acceleration, turn performance etc.)
When asked to compare the plane to Su-27, he said that after absence of one year flying that particular plane, it felt like a truck compared to PAK FA and Su-35 that feel more like a race car in comparison.

Since you are not new here , you already know that everyone assumed that all positive statements from pilots are PR nonsense ( unless it is about their favorite fighters ofcourse, then it would be regarded as god words )

When we look at the high AoA perfomance, we can see that PAK FA has even faster roll/yaw rates than Su-35 (F-22 is not even in the same class), but what I find very interesting is the sinking rate/distance and energy recovery. PAK FA can regain the lift much faster/sooner than Su-35, and the amount of lift it can generate in relation to its weight allows the plane to spend less time/distance sinking and thus regaining the energy much faster

These statements are quite vague to be honest , do you have any number and source to back it up ? , you are not neccesary wrong , PAK-FA may be better but by how much exactly ?

The way you measured the time is not the most reliable and accurate. If you want to more accurately measure the 180 degree turn you should start at about 2:46 mark because then the plane is at about 90 degrees in relation to camera position and exposing its full lenght. You should stop the time when the plane reaches 90 degrees in relation to camera position exposing its full lenght but pointing in oposite direction. That should give us some nine to 10 seconds trnaslationg to 18 to 20 dgrees per second.

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I think you screen shot it a bit too late ? , the aircraft nose position doesnt seem to change between 2:53 and 2:56 ? it look like the aircraft finished the turn in 7-8 sec in my opinion

PAK FA air show performance is more than impressive even if we exclude the fact that the plane showed only about 50% of its full potential and was limited to about 5+ Gs according to official statement.
There is no other western plane in the world capable of doing such complex high AoA manuvers even in this stage of flight testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG6vi87my9A

As far as i know F-35 also have G restriction at the moment , some where between 5G and 7G depending on source

Still, the record stands,

The problem with this record is the information isn’t very clear and quite confusing, it doesn’t state whether the speed is the maximum speed that Su-27 reached at one point while still cover 1000 km, or that the average speed of Su-27 all over 1000 km circle

and there is one with a 1TM of payload, is clear this record has practical implications.

The su-27 being used is a modified one without radar, IRST, jamming system so it is quite a bit lighter than the average Su-27, iam not saying that the average sukhoi doesn’t have good range, but the one perform the record will likely have better kinematics performance than your war capable su-27