They are more aerodynamic than the long noses believe it or not. We get FAR better fuel economy over here and we normally carry more weight in standard configurations
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what disease did cured ham have exactly?
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Enough with the dad jokes already lol! Don’t quit your day job of organizing rally events. 
Some of the cooler stuff I’ve seen being delivered …
Oooo, I delivered a 737 yoke and column to a flight simulator building company just last week! They had a couple of full sized cockpits being built in their warehouse.
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I don’t want to live in a world where George Carlin jokes are now dad jokes
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The there I was thread awaits impatiently…
https://forums.mudspike.com/t/so-no-joke-there-i-was/10109/17
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I want to hear the NZ trucking stuff! When we’re you here?
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I shall oblige once I stop for a bit today lol bear with me
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They do look awesome though.
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Looks like the junky airstrip that someone made as a mod for DCS. Great stuff!
Managed to buy few hours inside Yak-52 while visiting St Petersburg. Found a local club and even spend a night with locals while there.
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Was at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Saw this photo hanging near the elevators on the 8th floor.
IIRC it was tae in the early 1980s. I thin I had an 8x10 glossy in my stack of photos for Reece training I VF-32. Pretty sure the Mirage is either a III or V…
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I’ve seen that image somewhere myself. At first I thought the book, “Red Eagles”, but nah, don’t think so. Hmmm. cool picture.
IIRC, it was taken just after the US and Egypt started Mil-to-Mil engagements. Evidently this was a big deal flying by the pyramids. Well…considering there was something like 4,500 year difference between the pyramids and the jets…it is kind of a big deal.
It was a few years old when I first saw it in 1986-ish. The USN participants are a telltale of the time frame. Tomcats but no FA-18s (the A-7 instead). The A-6 has the low viz paint but not the A-7.
Got to love that MiG-21 camouflage.
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92/93 UNTAC
Russians provided most of the aviation support via Mi-17
& this massive bi-yatch, the Mi26
some months after i took this photo an mi-26 crashed on take-off
it burnt to absolutely nothing but the rotor hub
& the chassis of a polish military lorry that was in the back
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I would do anything to have an MI-26 halo and a CH-53 of pretty much ANY variety in DCS
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Does that come down to lower surface area then?
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