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The Stuff you can pick up at surplus auctions... (Read 382 times)

Apr 3^rd, 2003 at 3:27pm

CaptainCub Offline
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The Soviet Union has gone out of business and their loss is my gain! Check out what I picked up at a Military Surplus auction and brought home to Chicago:

"Russian, must remember to think in Russian...."

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Reply #1 - Apr 4^th, 2003 at 1:47am

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Not a bad book, not a bad film. Totally awesome aircraft!

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There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #2 - Apr 4^th, 2003 at 7:27am

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nice aircraft! what is it?

Raw power...the J-58.&&&&&&My Anet collection.&&

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Reply #3 - Apr 4^th, 2003 at 7:30am

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That is a Mig-31 Firefox (fictional, from the book by Craig Thomas, and made into a movie of the same name starring Clint Eastwood).
You can download it here at SimV, its great fun to fly as it is hypersonic, and whilst getting it off the ground takes a fair bit of runway, once in the air its beautiful. Landing is damn hard though!

Ozzy

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #4 - Apr 5^th, 2003 at 11:31am

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Ozzy's right, she is hard to land, as her stall speed is about 200 knots. I ussually use the autopilot to slow her down to that as I make my approach, and once I'm on final, switch it off, go to the virtual cockpit which gives me a better view, and ease her down to the runway while gently throttling her down. Once I'm down I kick in the reversers and spoilers to slow her to a point where I can apply the brakes without snapping off the nose gear and setting her on her nose (Trust me, I've done that a lot!)

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