Experimental Russian jet

From your description it sounds like a Yak-30 or maybe the Yak-50

"DHarper" wrote in message ...
From your description it sounds like a Yak-30 or maybe the Yak-50

At first, I thought of that terrible MiG I.320... except for the
fictional Ta 183 inspired tail you described.

Rob

I believe Aurora was working froma perliminary description of a MiG9.
Back then the first hints came from either a May Day flyby or pictures
(long range and out of focus) nabbed by military attaches. Oddity -
estimates of dimensions came from measuring the pilot's helmet in the
pictures and working from there.
Walt BJ

anyone remember the stealth fighter kit of the 1980s? this was before
the f-117 was made public, so the kit looked like a sr-71 blackbird.

flying toys [r/c planes, model rockets] often have shapes that are
distortions of the original, for areodynamic reasons.

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anyone remember the stealth fighter kit of the 1980s? this was before
the f-117 was made public, so the kit looked like a sr-71 blackbird.

Yup! My stupid poly-sci textbook (college level!) was written by pinkos, so
there was a nice article about how inept the military is because they
couldn't keep top-secret designs out of the hands of toy-makers (referencing
the Testors "teardrop" shaped "F-19 Stealth Fighter", which Microprose
promptly copied for it's computer game).



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Bill Silvey wrote in message ...
Yup! My stupid poly-sci textbook (college level!) was written by pinkos, so
there was a nice article about how inept the military is because they
couldn't keep top-secret designs out of the hands of toy-makers (referencing
the Testors "teardrop" shaped "F-19 Stealth Fighter", which Microprose
promptly copied for it's computer game).

I have a book at home about stealth technology - apparently the F-19 design
was a complete fake; it wasn't a stealthy design, and was created as a ruse
to fool the press.

It had a fairly large RCS, and would have used afterburning engines.

But F-19 Stealth Fighter was still a cool game )

Cheers
Graeme