Cross-posted to uk.rec.engines.stationary and uk.rec.models.engineering)
Got this from our friends in the USA just now, the images are fairly large and take a while to download, but very interesting and worth the wait.
It concerns an Iraqi MIG (23?) that was buried in the desert and then "rediscovered".
Peter
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Peter, should there be a link? If there was a binary attachment then BTclick would have stripped it out....
Hmmmm, it's in the original but not on both the posts to the ng's:
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Those sandstorms are a bugger ;-)
Regards, Tony
Gottit, although I think there's something missing ;-)
In message , Peter A Forbes wrote
It looks like either a MIG25 (Foxbat) or the MIG31(?) that was developed from it, the Foxbat was very fast Mach 2.5 ish, not agile and with short range the 31 was I believe slightly slower could turn and had better range.
Now moved to
Tony Robinson?
- Brian
No - I meant the flappy bits on the side that keep it up in the sky, although I concede that Tony Robinson is also not present ;-)
You'd have to flap pretty damm hard to keep that thing up in the air :-))
Reminds me of a wry comment made by Camm or Hooker:
"Nothing comes down quicker than a vertical take-off and landing aircraft upside down" or words to that effect.
Peter
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