Contains 1 item, last updated on 03/21/08
Russia now has #1 fighter plane in the world...? SU-30- Vectored Thrust
with Canards.? As you watch this airplane, look at the canards moving
along side of, and just below the canopy rail.? The "canards" are the
small wings forward of the main wings.? The smoke and contrails provide
a sense of the actual flight path, sometimes in reverse direction.
This video is of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russian's-30MK
fighter aircraft.? You will not believe what you are about to see.
The fighter can stall from high speed, stopping forward motion in
seconds.
(full stall).? Then it demonstrates an ability to descend tail first
without causing a compressor stall.? It can also recover from a flat
spin in less than a minute.
These manoeuvre capabilities don't exist in any other aircraft in the
world today..? Take a look at the video with the sound up.? This
aircraft is of concern to U.S.?? and NATO planners.? We don't know
which nations will soon be flying the SU-30MK, hopefully China isn't
one of them..
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Note:
Friends worked with advanced aircraft flight control systems and
concepts for many years as an extension of stability control and means
of control.
Canards and vectored thrust were among many concepts examined to extend
our fighter aircraft performance.? Neither our current or next
generation aircraft now poised for funding & production can in any way
match the? performance of this Russian aircraft NOW FLYING in any near
combat situation.? Somehow the bankrupt Russian aircraft industry has
out produced our complex politically tainted aerospace industry with
this technology marvel.?
