Russia’s SU75 / 57 and it’s woes
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Russia’s SU75 / 57 and it’s woes
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SU-57 “stealth” fighter wing with semi-recessed roofing screws.
This, it’s an improvement on the wing fixings on an SU-30 built as recently as 2018…
Excellent panel shut lines on both aircraft…
This, it’s an improvement on the wing fixings on an SU-30 built as recently as 2018…
Excellent panel shut lines on both aircraft…
There is nothing like craftsmanship when it comes to building aircraft!
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Is this the new aircraft that our Russian chums informed us is more advanced than the Stealth Fighter, the design of which essentially started nearly 50 years ago?
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I walked amongst scattered parts of the still smoking wreckage of one of the MIG 29s involved in the mid air at IAT Fairford in 1993. For what was then a world beating design, I wasn’t very impressed by the workmanship.
(Or the flying
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(Or the flying
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