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Old 05-04-2004, 03:37 PM   #3
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I really dug that flick. It all has to do with the addition of those stubby little wings on the front of the place that make it possible, with the directed thrust off the jet exhaust to recover from a stall like that. That is an updated version of an Russian Sukoi design. The earlier version crashed at the Paris airshow after failing to recover from a stall that radical I think they called it the SU -29. I know the U.S. had nightmares about it because it could out-manouveure the f-16 and f-15 eagle. Now with the canard wing addition and the directable thrust it really cooks. Still got a stealth problem though, very detectable.

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