This simply makes my head hurt:
I can only imagine the man-hours required to keep those nozzles, canards, flaperons, rudder-vators, etc. in functioning condition. Hopefully the computers are triple redundant.
Makes you wonder why they couldn't maintain the oxygen system well enough that the pilot could breath without letting his mask hang down to his chin.
The demo is an aerodynamic wonder. Tactically, all of that flapping and swirling hot-air is a recipe for a big bulls-eye on your cockpit from a stealthy system operating with multi-source data fusion.
3 comments:
Ed,
From the looks of that Russian Pilot, we should apply to their demonstration team. We'd lower their average age by at least 10 years!
"Too many notes."
Too funny. Heh.
Ed, Having seen the F-22 Raptor Demo a couple of years ago at Aviation Nation and knowing the conservative nature of USAF demo pilots, I'm sure Max Moga could do any of that in a Raptor!
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