Cheers!

Drakens are a cool looking plane!

If you're a Mig 21 fan as I am you'll love this. Music is perfect for the subject!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zL6iONasIM

nice found !

The 21 is one of my fav too

With all those talking about perf measurement downto half a knot and arguing about how many feet wider was that type of plane turn radius, here is a wonderful document of how it really happens when all the talking is over...

http://youtu.be/mB9KvZ-Y5nM

Another nice one if you like big sticks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wvEz...eature=related

Ah yes, the "aluminum overcast".

If you have not stood next to (or rather under) one you cannot get a real grasp of the scale of that aircraft.

It is simply amazing.

One of the very few USAF aircraft that has the piston engines are facing the right way. :)

I want .. I want .. so BAD! .. a true fighter - bomber.

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High above the horizon... in the dark of space*


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=VBnkbeGLGk4



One though to J.Adams

The best book I have read on this story is this one from Thompson, one of the test pilot of the NASA (ex-Bell) . In this book you have the detailled retranscrition of radio com during the last tragic flight of Adams. A thrilling read when his plane departed at hypersonic flight during re-entry (I am in a spin... I am in a spin) - nothing he could hve done with such primary flight ctrls

~S

*far far away from our digressions...

EDIT: good source of info online : http://history.nasa.gov/SP-60/toc.html

EDIT bis: Milton Thompson at 16min25sec here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1BmHsv-hs&feature=plcp

Thanks for posting that link! Really interesting commentary.