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I work in Church Crookham which is in line with the runway. This week I saw planes do things I never thought they could! I was outside today to see a four engined fighter rocket past on full afterburner, apparently all the light fittings in the factory shook! Do any Jap tuning companies do afterburners for Soops....cos if they do, I want one:d

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I was outside today to see a four engined fighter rocket past on full afterburner..

 

A four engined fighter? You sure it had four engines? Can you describe it more? Sorry, I'm an aircraft junkie and know almost every fighter aircraft in the world, but don't know of any with four engines. Maybe it was a bomber.

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A four engined fighter? You sure it had four engines? Can you describe it more? Sorry, I'm an aircraft junkie and know almost every fighter aircraft in the world, but don't know of any with four engines. Maybe it was a bomber.

Could well have been a bomber, two engines on either side, swept back wings which ended behind the tail section, grey colour all over and may have had two tailplanes. Hope this helps... didn`t get more than a few seconds to see it!

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Could well have been a bomber, two engines on either side, swept back wings which ended behind the tail section, grey colour all over and may have had two tailplanes. Hope this helps... didn`t get more than a few seconds to see it!

 

 

Sounds Like a B1 to me? But not sure when you mention the tail

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blimey that is cool. how do they get the thrust out of the front vent? must be some serious piping going on!

 

The Harrier is the only aircraft that manages to achieve true V/STOL usign only one engine. Plenty of other nations (including the French and the Russians) have managed to create credible VTOL aircraft that used serarate lift and thrust motors. Of course once you are airbourne, the lift motor is just dead weight, hence the Harrier's advantage.

 

The front vents on the Rolls Royce Pegasus engine are pre-combustion chamber, or "cold" vents that take air straight from the compressor stage. The rear vents are after the combustion chamber.

 

The V/STOL version of the JSF is a bit of a backward step because it uses a separate lift fan which is a mechanical affair, driven off the main engine's centre shaft via a gearbox. I don't think the lift engine burns any fuel, so its like a cold ducted fan rather than a jet engine. The rear main thrust nozzle vectors downwards to provide hot lift thrust from the rear.

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Bloody hell! What a plane!

 

This thing can rotate almost on it's own axis! It can also hover in a stationary position for a few seconds!

 

Saw this at Fairford on Sunday, its unbeleivable! It put the Eurofighter to shame!

The pilot was apparently Russias top ace, he held the thing stationary only 600feet above the runway. Very, very noisy indeed :)

 

Will post up pics once they're of the camera

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