A F-117 during a night landing!

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My deepest regards to the family members!

(I know, it is too early to speculate, but I personally presume, that one or both of the pilots misinterpret the TCAS screen.)

See thread ATE Super Hind Mk V!

Aluminum it is.

What I really don’t understand is why they don’t go for more fibre optics.

“Fly by light” is still too “heavy” and so still too expensive for commercial aircrafts like the A380.
The optical/electric converter seems yet to be a too heavy component for such an aircraft.

But “Fly by light” has been tested on military aircrafts (resistant against electronic warfare) and on helicopters (Eurocopter Germany, testbed EC 135 or BKK 117 :confused: )

Source: “Fly by light” @ Wikipedia.de (only in german!)

And you have also to be born on U.S. ground!
That means CONUS, U.S Bases, Embassies and aircrafts en Route USA.

So Arnold can’t run yet!

NVA

Hi

this another photo for SU-22M4 but I don’t know if it Iraqi sukhoi or no.

Could be a SU-22M4 from the former East German Airforce/Navy.
The markings 25+?? on the front fuselage are maybe the GAF (West German Airforce) markings after German reunification.

Poland will soon receive the first of seven DB-110 airborne reconnaissance pods to equip its newly procured F-16C/Ds (Peace Sky). DB-110 (known as Raptor) is built by Goodrich Corp. and is operational with the U.K. Royal Air Force Tornados, used during Operation Iraqi Freedom It is also in operation on the OP-3C aircraft flown by the Japanese Maritime Staff Office.

Source: http://www.defense-update.com/products/d/db110pod.htm

It’s about jobs!!!
Russian aircrafts would have been cheap, but the Russians would have built only them.
So closing down aircraft factories in the UK or in EU and importing russian aircraft would be a death sentence for any politician in the next elections.
Now it’s about votes!!! 😉 😀