Wow, Russian fighter looks like it is in a space movie

I have seen things done by our fighters but never saw anything like this. The F-22 Raptor is a magnificent war plane and does magic things. I don't know if it can fly this way though. Any aircraft experts please let me know of our airplanes able to fly like this.

 

Blimey, it looks almost alive. Kudos to the pilot.

 

It's a model isn't it? It has a much tighter turn because it's small.

 

That's a model. It's a tiny (relative to the real thing) remote control aircraft.

 

That's a cottton-pickin' good point; when it was doing the aerobatics, and when it was on the runway, that sure wasn't jet fuel thrust, it looked more like steam. Bit like those vehicles in International Rescue? 'Thunderbirds are go!'

(I just changed aerobics to aerobatics, as it should've been )

 

From the youtube channel this video was posted in.

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What gets me is the lazy way the smoke stream floats away with all that jet wash.

 

Why does maneuverability like that matter in the era of BVR missile attacks?

 

You guys do know I hope that while visually impressive those kinds of maneuvers are all but useless in actual combat. The aircraft slows down so much and loses so much energy when it does that it would be a sitting duck for missiles either air to air or SAM.

 

It's not the plane but who's in the cockpit.

How were U.S. Navy piston driven A-1 Skyraiders able to shoot down jet powered Mig-17's over North Vietnam ?

The best of the best, Bob Hoover.

 

That reminds me. In the 1990s, Russian pilots SU-27 Flankers and their variants loved to wow audiences at air shows with a maneuver called the "tail slide" that involved bringing the fighter almost into runway contact yanking the nose way up (more that 50 degrees) and have the engine exhaust hit the runaway directly before shooting back up near vertical.

What no one bothered to mentioned was that U.S. F-15 pilots had been able to do the same thing for a decade or more. They just didn't because

1) McDonnel Douglas stopped flying demonstration flights with the F-15 years before.
2) The USAF largely banned its pilots performing the maneuver due to danger and wear and tear on the Eagles.

But the Russians were continually implying that this was some brand new kind of maneuver that Russian aeronautics had achieved.

 

It isn't CGI... It's a radio controlled model airplane.

 

holy f

 

Quite true. Flying as slow speeds makes the target even easier to hit.

 

I am sure I have seen Bob Hoover fly in past air shows.

The only time I saw both flying and on the ground the SIAI Marchetti -260 was at the Livermore, CA airshow.

 

I would bet anyone whoever been to an air show from the 1960's to the 1980's more than likely saw Bob Hoover doing his thing.

During the 1980's the Soviet Union invited Bob Hoover to test fly on of their news Migs. That's how good Hoover was.

 

My first airshow had to be in 1958. My date knew the Blue Angels. Fact is they approached us and talked to her. She was so beautiful men did not want to miss talking to her. Men hit on her during our dates. We were making out one time parked on a city st and two cops stopped to check her out. We were legally parked and they had no reason otherwise.

I have been to a number of airshows. Bob Hoovers name is well known to me. I believe he also flew at the Reno Air Races. If I am in error, you probably know.

 

Ok....now for a REAL plane.

 

Yep, I noticed it pretty quick. I think it was the camera movement that clued me in first.

What's really funny is this was posted in the thread and went unnoticed:

 

Nope, it is a computer simulation of an RC plane. Wild, I know.

 

I believe, meaning it's my opinion, that the F-22 is the finest fighter plane ever built.