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    That is what happens when you leave a bird of prey and platypus together with a bottle of wine........weird things happen..........and months later.....BAM! An SU-34 is born!
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    Whats funny is that all those signs are in Cyrillic. While most Algerians speak a French based Arabic. They must have been old Russian AF aircraft they bought.
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    All fighters have some forms of written instructions somewhere on them. Even simple stuff like opening the canopy or the external emergency canopy jettison panel.
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    That is all it takes. Typical of aircraft maintenance. That is also the reason there are so many safety precautions established as orders in maintenance even for stuff that should be common sense.
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    I know they figured out who did it. As for whether they were punished, I have no idea. That debacle affected aircraft state sides also. We were told that at least 1 B-1 and several other fighter units were grounded due to this one tanker. It happened back in 1996. The JASDF was not happy since we ended wasting a lot of JP-4 flushing out the fuel systems on our aircraft.
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    Just for future info here a link for Hasegawa. This should help anyone else who may need replacement parts. Http:/hasegawausa.com/techsupport html
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    I have a friend who was able to get parts for some Hasegawa kits when he discovered them missing from the kits. Also if you want to tint a canopy, try adding the color to some Future floor wax when you go to dip your canopy's.My buddy tried it with F-16 canopies especially since the newer tinting has a green hue to it. I messaged him to find out how well it worked. He tried this a while back.
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    The Isochronal inspections on KC-135's require that the refueling tanks be emptied and cleaned out. Some jackass left pieces of cheese cloth ( we use it for wiping the canopy) in the tanks. Cheese cloth is literally what is sounds like. It is used for making certain cheeses, it is very light, soft and absorbent. This stuff though broke down when left in the fuel tank of the tanker and small bits and pieces got into our F-16's (5 aircraft) fuel systems.
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    Went TDY there in 96 for a Cope North exercise. Got to see them boresighting the 20 mm on one of their birds. That ramp is tiny compared to most air bases. We had the joy of having 5 out of 6 of our aircraft being filled with contaminated JP-8 from a Kadena KC-135. One aircraft IFE'd in with fuel dumping from its fuel vent on the left wing. Crew Chief found a big piece of cheese cloth sticking out of the A/R connect up top while he was preflighting the aircraft. Love those F-4's though, the only aircraft that looks like it is saying "thank god" when it touches down on the runway and its main struts compress with the weight.
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    The Russians have always worked their way around problems designing aircraft by going the simplest route. Take the Mig-25. When we first saw one up close our Aero engineers realized they had used mostly steel in its frame and only used Titanium on the areas that truly required it since they were just starting to be able to process the ore. They also used exposed bolts on the frame by placing them in areas that were not exposed to aerodynamic drag. They also created a vacuum tube specifically for use at high altitude since they still weren't using transistor technology yet. The PAK FA will be one of the first aircraft developed by them that is using mostly composite materials instead of metals in the frame. Their engine technology is one of the few things holding back its performance.
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    The information I could find stated the Al-3's were rated at 33,000 lbs in afterburner, 26,000 lbs in mil setting. The F-119 is currently rated at 35K+ in burner. Dry thrust is the same. I actually read somewhere else the 119 is actually rated around 40K in burner. It will be interesting to see how well the Russian systems fair. Their engine's lifespans are a lot lower than ours. Plus they are still dealing with compressor stalls, something which both GE and P&W have been able to prevent now with thier newer engines. I have seen only one F-16 compressor stall with a GE engine and the pilot had to completely screw the pooch in a climb while chasing a Tornado F-3. It actually took the GE AFREPS doing a minute by minute analysis of the engine operation download to see it.
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    Unfortunately its true performance ability is still waiting to be tapped. The current engine is only an interim one until the new powerplant can be designed. The 117 (AL-31) still has compressor stall issues and one caught fire and severely damaged one of the prototypes. It is a beautiful design though.
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    It may have been braced against the tree, its hard to tell though. AB eats up so much gas, its insane. On takeoff with a 300 gal centerline, the F-16 empties most of the tank. The fuel flow on the GE engine has no set number for pounds per minute when in burner. But to see an AB equipped turbine that size is really incredible.
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    A little off topic but this is the smallest afterburning jet engine i have ever seen.......
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    I can just see them calling the augmentor "hyperdrive motivator"................
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    I was looking at the line art Seto and didn't even notice those on the trailing edges. They are definitely low profile. They did a good job at blending them into the frame to make them less prominent and keep the frame a bit more aerodynamic in Gerwalk.
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    My theory on stability is that the VF's use gyros in the way we use our inner ear. The gyro feeds positional information to it's computer essentially telling it which way it is standing or positioned in either mode. The thrusters used on the VF-1 I think were along the lines of a safety feature. If the computer received erroneous input from the pilot which put the battroid in a situation as Hikaru was in, then the thrusters would be activated in a an attempt to assist in righting the battroid. But I am curious as to how the new gen Valks actually move in 0 g without the back thrusters when not equipped with super packs.
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    I hate to say it but he looked like a little kid playing with the cockpit controls in an aircraft museum piece set up to let folks sit in the cockpit.....it is hilarious to look at.
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    One thing I noticed in Macross Zero though was that the arm movement was tied in with what appeared to be Roys head movement. In the scene when Roy rescues the other VF-0 only to watch it get shot down by Ivanov, D.D. dives at him. As Roy turns his head and looks up the battroids arm also moves to point the gunpod muzzle in the same direction. The control system more than likely incorporates helmet mounted systems based initially on JHeMCS also to aid in certain actions of the battroid while in that mode. I see what you are saying Spanner, it looked more like the pilot was working that Gundam like a steam shovel than a moving spaceborne/airborne aircraft.
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    Here is my current wall paper......
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    Kajnrig, you are right. You are thinking of the Robotech novels explanation of how the system worked. Seto is absolutely correct though. Even in present day 4th and 5th generation aircraft a lot of the controls receive input and translate it to the corresponding system measured as pressure. The sidestick controller on an F-16 barely moves. Most of the flight control movement is the result of the amount of pressure applied by the pilot to the stick. The input is read by the flight control computer and is transmitted to the ISA (intergrated servo actuator) in the fly-by-wire system. The ISA then moves the surface in reference to the amount of pressure applied. I actually brought this thread up in another forum topic a while back. I realized with a fly-by-wire system that the amount of movement on the sticks in the series could cause a pilot to over fly the aircraft into the ground or some object. Even the throttles are going to "auto-throttle" systems. There is no direct mechanical linkage between the the throttle and PLA on the engine. It is done with sensors like the control stick. It does bug me a bit though but someone else in the other forum pointed out that a lot of what you see is also for dramatic purposes. It just doesn't have the same impact watching a guy barely move his hand or foot on a controller while he is in what is supposed to be a high g knife fight in a Valk or Gundam.
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    Klan flight suit

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    Klan flight suit

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    I know what you mean. When I sat and thought about it I was doing a second tour in Korea when I got my copy of Macross Zero. I wanted to watch it so bad that I risked going to the base post office early morning during an exercise to pick it up (getting caught at the post office during a simulated chem attack would definitely suck and would have put a delay on me getting some sleep). Unfortunately the subtitling was horrible so i was little confused and PO'd while watching it needless to say. Damn, time does flies by!
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    Definitely! There are so many movies still screaming to be made fun of!
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    Lol I know it was an Electric lightning, I just didn't feel like typing out the full name F-ZeroOne.
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