Ever wanted to drift race....in an airplane???

[ponyfool]

Crazy skillz, or just crazy, I dunno!

https://www.crazyaviation.com/movies/CA_SU-30.wmv

 

[airboss]

WOW! talk about low-g manuvers.

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Very cool. Just think, all that in a plane that will do better than Mach 3. I hear it has a range of about 80 miles.

 

[juniorfjr]

And just recently retired. Too bad.

 

[HaulinAshe]

A Lumshivak in a turbine-delta config. That takes big hairy balls!

When the nose flops over you go from +2 to -3 in about 300 milliseconds. You have to have your throat shut off or you get a nice chunky vomit burp.

Too cool!

 

[S76]

I can't believe he doesn't tear the wings off doing that!

And I can't believe he doesn't get into compressor stalls with the air going by the inlet @ 90 degrees to it.

Awesome machine.

 

[NightShine]

And on the landing approach, did you notice that the big old hairy drag device behind the cockpit was deployed before he actually touched down? You wouldn't think that'd be a standard procedure in the Pilot's Operating Handbook! :blink:

 

[Tropical FJR]

And on the landing approach, did you notice that the big old hairy drag device behind the cockpit was deployed before he actually touched down? You wouldn't think that'd be a standard procedure in the Pilot's Operating Handbook! :blink:

He would have had lots of power on with the speed brake out like that....

Amazing!

 

[evilmedic13]

I can't believe he doesn't tear the wings off doing that!
And I can't believe he doesn't get into compressor stalls with the air going by the inlet @ 90 degrees to it.

Awesome machine.

That is one hell of an aircraft line, su-27/30/33/35/37/32, even navalised versions for their old A/C that I believe India now owns! Tey've been flying that routine since about99-00. The engines (al-31f) don't go into compressor stalls because they have vanes/slat under the engines that open when needed. Plus Russian engines are a hell of alot tougher than ours since they are desinged to take off from unprepared fields,another reason for slatted intakes UNDER the engine, look at the landing gear of these puppies.

This is another area the Russians kick our *****, thrust-vectoring technology! Yeah, yeah the F-22 has it, but I have yet to see an aerial demonstration of it. Which to me means we're not even close to proficient w/ it due to not wanting to lose one our precious jets!

Don't forget the uprated version of the ARCHER off-boresight helmet mounted targeting system. It was developed in the 80's to give them an over the shoulder /snap shot missle launching capability,mainly used by the MiG-29 family at that time. It allows the pilot to look over his shoulder and allow his missile to lock on a target from a greater than 45degree angle,unheard of by the west. It and the MiG29 family also have infra-red seaerch and track/laser ranger which is both a passive & active targeting system located on the nose of both aircraft off to the starboard side. That's serious bitch too, whereas a US/NATO fighter can shoot another jet w/ 40-50 rounds w/ our g/s the IRST/LR can help the pilot knock another fighter out w/ 6-12 rounds!

Another interesting feature is their ejection seat, another world best from all the reports I have read, a 0/0 seat,meaning 0 airspeed & 0 altitude for ejection, and a supposed capability to keep the pilot alive during a mach 2 eject. Not sure about the last statement but everything else I've read has been backed up by footage of crashes so ,I doudt they're FOS on the capabilities.

An unknown (to us) prgramme the Russians had in the 80's, (yes the 80's1) was that their jets could communicate via a data-link! The MiG-31 for instance has such a powerful radar it would be used as an AWACS type platform while the USSR was beveloping their AWACSski the IL-976/A-50 Mainstay. This is yet again, something we are just now using.I don't mean AWACS aircraft either.

Keep in mind ,this is only the stuff that is out in the the publics eye. Only god knows what else they developed that we're keeping secret. The stuff I learned about the Russian Navy while on a Fast-Attack submarine doing intel would make the average joe VERY afraid. Don't forget when the KURSK went down it was supposed to fire a SHKVAL torpedo, rumored to go >200mph by producing super-cavitation and riding the rocket motor all the way to the target w/ minimal drag! I am so glad we didn't fight them, they not only had the quantity, but the quality as well.

 

[E1Allen]

The front canard wings help with the manuvers. Its a damn shame they spend all their money on military technology and not much else.

 

[S76]

The front canard wings help with the manuvers. Its a damn shame they spend all their money on military technology and not much else.

We flew into norther Russia a few times and to see the way they operate over there is unbelivable. The aircraft got snowed in and they plowed around it but we still needed to shovel it out some. We asked for a shovel and got a 2X4 with piece of plywood screwed on the end. That's all they had. Everything is very crude and very poor. The hangars were freezing cold and techs were working in there. The good thing is we carried alot of Vodka and for a bottle of Vodka you could get anything you wanted.