Aircraft Recognition

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Boeing as well as Airbus offer performance improvement packages in various forms.
The addon winglets is one of them.Available across various modes..737,757,767
Its usually upto the operator to decide on the cost vs savings of the package.

A typical 737 addon pair costs abt 750,000$ and an additional 100,000$ to fit them.

They weigh abt 300kgs. (Thats addition to the Empty wt of the a/c and the a/c will carry 300kgs less revenue payload)
But on the whole the winglets are a no-brainer for a/c which fly 3hr + sectors regularly as the fuel savings more than offsets the cost of the winglet programe.

Lots of good info here abt 737 winglets
http://www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm
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A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter aircraft crashed near Kuchlak, outskirt of Quetta, on Wednesday morning (Oct 1) due to a technical fault:
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Q1- What type of plane?


And when Air Commander Tariq Mehmood says:
The Air Headquarter has ordered an inquiry into the incident to determine the exact cause of the crash.
The aircraft crashed in a vacant area and there was no loss of life and property in the area.
Q2- How come No Loss of Property and/or life?
Q3 - I thought exact cause was "technical fault".
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Q1) It looks like a JF -17
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+1 from the ventral strakes.
Amber G. wrote: Q2- How come No Loss of Property and/or life?
On ground.
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For real oldies:

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NRao wrote:For real oldies:

What is fascinating to me is the number of private companies that were making jets:
Handley-Page Victor
De Havilland Comet
English Electric Lightning (and Canberra, I think)
Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer
and missing from the video, the Avro Vulcan

All were nationalized to become BAe because single companies became unsustainable against American competition. And then even in America, consolidation occurred.

In India we are looking at the reverse.
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Admins if this is not the correct place for this post - I apologize but this is the closest thread I could find.

I am trying to build the models of the Hurricane iiC flown by Jagdish Chandra Verma and the Spitfire/Hurricane flown by Mohinder Singh Pujji. I am trying to add markings to when Verma shot down his lone Oscar and Pujji for any of his 2 kills. Questions for anyone in the know:

a) What were the markings on Verma's hurricane?
b) Did Pujji fly a hurricane or spitfire (what mark for either) for his confirmed kills and what were the markings for his aircraft? I know he first flew a Hurricane iiB with Amrit written across his cockpit and later a Spit Mk V (Don't know if it was B or C or had had the extra nose scoop for the Mediterranean theatre). However there is no piece I came up with to tell what aircraft he flew when he shot down his 2 Me109s though one article had a suggestion it was a Spitfire Mk V possibly RAF Sq 43?

Many thanks if anyone can enlighten as I have tried to research and hit a dead-end!
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^ The history and public relations depts at Air HQ have been helpful with similar queries. Suggest u contact them if u haven't already.
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Thanks Victor. Being across a cpl of oceans might make that challenging but that's a great suggestion and will try it out. As a heads up, I am just about finishing a DML Mig-29, a classic Crown Sea Harrier and an Airfix Spitfire PR XIX in IAF colors. Will post pictures as soon as I am done.
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The Migs we love :


Probably the best view to witness the proportions (Romanian Mig-21 Lancer):
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So what model is it:
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And behold:

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Guards Lieutenant Colonel Valentin V. Privalov - military pilot - on 4 June 1965 - MiG-17 - flying under the central arch of the Public Novosibirsk bridge over river Ob - distance between the supports of the bridge = 120 m - height = 30 m - speed = 700 km/h.

Privalov was facing court-martial, but the Defense Minister, Marshal Malinovsky decided to keep the pilot in the ranks.

defendingrussia.ru/people/valentin_priv ... ayu_vo_sne
"I'll tell you without any modesty, - says Privalov - Gorky was" born to crawl can not fly, "and I was born to fly!"
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looks like early prototype of SR-71 Blackbird
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Nope :wink:

Those designs can be seen here -

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brar_w wrote:..

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Boeing joint strike fighter
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dhiraj wrote:
Boeing joint strike fighter
Not quite! Boeing used a delta wing, and the design at the time was 7 months pregnant with the X-45 :wink:
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brar_w wrote:..

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mcdonnell douglas jsf
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brar_w wrote:
dhiraj wrote:
Boeing joint strike fighter
Not quite!
McDonnell Douglas MRF wind tunnel model later bought by Boeing
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dhiraj wrote:
McDonnell Douglas MRF wind tunnel model later bought by Boeing
Bingo! The design wasn't bought by boeing, they didn't (the acquisition) integrate till much later but yeah Boeing did buy some sense on how to design a real fighter through that acquisition. Now for bonus (and to check whether this was from memory or using google) please guess which iteration this design was for that particular team based out of St. Louis
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I had no idea of this one. Is this a follow on of the 287-1006 studies?
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indranilroy wrote:I had no idea of this one. Is this a follow on of the 287-1006 studies?

Around the same time. The eventual design submitted by MD was obviously as a team (post JAST study) with The heavy weight in Northrop Grumman (coming out of a poorly implemented acquisition/merger) but this particular design was the third of their internal effort. Of course as the story unfolded MD continued to show the show the middle finger to the Marines and did not listen to that half of the program requirement and eventually lost. The original competition was thought to be between MD (and team) and Lockheed. Boeing weren't even in the picture until they agreed to jointly fund their test aircraft just to get in the door (they had to fund the testing as well). That's why there are two X-32's in the JSF history, one developed by Lockheed and the other by Boeing. MD's effort was probably the best from a purely CTOL aspect of the designs submitted (because they thought that STOVL won't be a very big thing from a design perspective for the acquisition people) and this was throughout the process whether it was their own internal design effort or the collective designs that were eventually tested/submitted. Much Like Lockheed in the B-2 competition or Northrop and MD during the ATF, the team lost out because A) They did not draw the correct conclusion from the draft RFP, and B ) They did not manage the design risk properly while the winner(s) did. There were so many different designs developed and tested in the tunnel (by all teams) as the RFI's and RFP's evolved that one could just sit with a catalogue and see which designs are reflected in future projects around the world, particularly some of the things coming out of South Korea and Turkey.

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Thank you for the information.

I sympathize with them. Aerodynamically speaking, it is an impossible task. Internal volume and weight are a fighter aircrafts worst enemies for performance.There is an extremely large school of people who don't think CTOL and VSTOL should be merged, especially for US which has the wherewithals to support fighters optimized for either requirements. Anyways, we both know about both sides of this argument.
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I somewhat agree, but from a purely competition perspective one has to design around the RFP received or else back out and not compete otherwise you risk of loosing a ton of business and being acquired by someone else (and thats what happened to them - but in a way it was a good thing as the next decade should show us). This has happened before with Kelly Johnson doing his own thing on the LWF and ticking the USAF off that ultimately contributed to his retiring from Lockheed. Otherwise, the JSF was the only way either of the three services could afford a new aircraft and therefore the challenge was wide i.e. design an aircraft that exceeds the performance of all the aircraft it is replacing in relevant conditions and incorporates the huge advances in stealth, sensors and avionics made since the legacy jets were designed. Thats what the OEM's were asked to deliver and that is what they set out to demonstrate. The ATF gave them a very high mach super cruise requirement along with the ability to hold a very low signature at that speed. Heck even the watered down F-22 (from the original ATF requirements) can go supersonic on dry power at sea level, yet that all comes at a cost. The JSF approach was then as it is now, to utilizes the enormous advances in materials, stealth, sensors and avionics and package them into a platform that balanced design and performance with affordability. One can easily go out and compare what the Brits or the french spent on a handful of Rafale's or Typhoons or even what the USAF spent on a handful of F-22's. Looked from that angle the 350 Billion odd acquisition cost of 2400 odd F-35's spread over 3 variants is a bargain given the capability.
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The real argument is never F-35 vs Eurofighters, or F-35 vs F-22. The real question is what the F-35 could have been using the enormous advances in materials, stealth, sensors and avionics and package and not bound by the unnecessary baggages placed on it. Anyways, let's stop this discussion.
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I really like this thread and here is my pooch to the avid sky-watchers.
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GopiN wrote:I really like this thread and here is my pooch to the avid sky-watchers.
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Me-323
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Prithwiraj wrote:
GopiN wrote:I really like this thread and here is my pooch to the avid sky-watchers.
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:shock: Correct
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Pretty straight forward..

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brar_w wrote:Pretty straight forward..

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Indian AMCA
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X-32
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Boeing JSF, that was one ugly looking bird.
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All Wrong... :D

This is the Boeing ATF Submission (1986) for the competition that eventually led to the F-22A.

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Please to identify the said plane
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^^ This was a graphic that lockheed released in the late 80's talking about one of their designs that they considered at one point. This design was officially never, ever submitted under any request for information or request for proposal. All the way up until the mid 1980's, lockheed martin was pushing the "battle-cruiser" concept for the ATF which bore a resemblance to the YF12/SR71 families. The history of the ATF program is extremely interesting particularly the back and forth between the USAF, the Pentagon and the contractors. At the time the RFP was being drafted they grossly underestimated the capabilities in stealth. They then had to get folks that were familiar with the ongoing efforts on stealth (F-117 and B-2) into the picture and then just 8 days after the RFP was released, they amended it and added considerably stealth requirements. The All aspect stealth (as opposed to frontal) was a big win for Northrop and Lockheed since they had tremendous volume of R&D on stealth and shaping and had by then received the sort of computers and had developed algorithms to develop stealthy curved shapes. According to the program boss who managed the entire program they had " 2 excellent designs, 3 very good designs and other designs where the contractors had no idea what the hell they were doing".
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brar_w wrote:^^ This was a graphic that lockheed released in the late 80's talking about one of their designs that they considered at one point. This design was officially never, ever submitted under any request for information or request for proposal. All the way up until the mid 1980's, lockheed martin was pushing the "battle-cruiser" concept for the ATF which bore a resemblance to the YF12/SR71 families. The history of the ATF program is extremely interesting particularly the back and forth between the USAF, the Pentagon and the contractors. At the time the RFP was being drafted they grossly underestimated the capabilities in stealth. They then had to get folks that were familiar with the ongoing efforts on stealth (F-117 and B-2) into the picture and then just 8 days after the RFP was released, they amended it and added considerably stealth requirements. The All aspect stealth (as opposed to frontal) was a big win for Northrop and Lockheed since they had tremendous volume of R&D on stealth and shaping and had by then received the sort of computers and had developed algorithms to develop stealthy curved shapes. According to the program boss who managed the entire program they had " 2 excellent designs, 3 very good designs and other designs where the contractors had no idea what the hell they were doing".
And we have a winner .. Yes, this was the LM "Rounded stealth" Concept (A concept also pursued by the Soviets at that time) This was the diametric opposite of the stealth shaping we see today wherein the rounded edges redistribute radio waves over such a large arc that the Receiver cannot pick this out of the clutter.
My mistake to post it right after you posted an ATF design
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more of the same breed, who lost to raptor - http://yf-23.net/Lockheed.html
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Boreas wrote:more of the same breed, who lost to raptor - http://yf-23.net/Lockheed.html
The top one is a derivative of the battle cruiser concepts, the second was a graphic released for media consumption and nothing that they took very seriously at the time (at least form the submitted documents). The third is the most important picture of the lot, since it shows the evolution (Codeonemagazine has a full section on this). Lockheed was very smart in involving General Dynamics into their design efforts after they were down-selected. The borrowed the ATF wing designs directly form GD's design team. Northrop on the other hand didn't really use McDonnell Douglas much and pretty much carried their design from the earlier competition (for the down-select) whereas they could have reduced the weight significantly had they spent more time on enhancing the YF23.
My mistake to post it right after you posted an ATF design
One point however, this was a general design for lockheed leading up to the ATF design team's creation. It was not a part of their ATF effort either at the RFI stage or the RFP stage. The evolving designs can be seen here :

http://www.codeonemagazine.com/images/m ... 7_7236.JPG
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brar_w wrote:All Wrong... :D

This is the Boeing ATF Submission (1986) for the competition that eventually led to the F-22A.

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An easy one for the gurus, but the guy who figures it out also has to give a small explanation of this aircraft..
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^^ Looks like the BA609.. Of course it is the 'Osprey'esque tiltrotor plane.. Fly like a plane land like a chopper..
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It was the BA-609 now its the AW-609(Was a Bell/Agusta westland collab - Bell Bowed out).. Tilt rotor yes, but my favorite part is the forward swept wings. Has a smaller footprint than a V-22 and is expected to be cheaper too.. First was aimed at big Oil execs then focus shifted to people who have the luxury of a plane with the ability to land in Helipads.. Amazingly this Tilt rotor can be flown by 1 pilot in Instrument rules condition. Italian military has expressed interest, I hope so do our special forces.. Would make a formidable plane to land troops in enemy lands and pick them up in double speed
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