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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:36:54 +0300, "Vello" wrote:
"Peter Stickney" wrote in message ... The MiG was intended to be flown by normal service pilots, use normal fuels and systems, and be maintained by 20 year old conscripts in Siberia. Making an airplane that can do all those things wasn't a trivial acheivement. Another way to look at it is that the MiG-25 has pretty much the ultimate perforance that can be acheived with a normal shape, and fairly normal materials. (Stainless Steel, for the most part) If you're going to go faster and higher, you need to start making exotic airplanes like the SR-71. Thank you all for making things clear! One more strange thing: russians have a lot of titanium, they even built submarine hulls from that - strange airframe builders in SU find so little use for titanium. Do anybody know the reason? whats really funnny is that the Titanium that was used to build the SR-71 was exported from the then Soviet Union. -- Pete Stickney A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster |
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