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What it's like to fly a fighter jet
No music. No flashy moves. No missile launches. And yet this video is still incredible. It's just flying sequence after flying sequence of Russian Air Force MiG-31s cruising through the sky. Filmed by GoPro cameras strapped to a MiG, this footage is probably the closest we'll ever get to flying a fighter jet. Seeing the world from such a powerful beast of a machine somehow simplifies things. (sploid.gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Tremendous piece of video. Any commentary would be superfluous!
Just behind the cockpit, a little tower can be seen. This retracts after takeoff. What is it?
Enable ejection seat activation pre rotation. All front line Russian machines are fitted with this system. Much safer than systems in the west. Takes canopy off and boosts rocket ejection.
Upon further investigation, the rear seat WSO position has a set full flight controls, but no forward visibility. There is a periscope system built into the rear canopy. The mirror for the periscope system is deployed for takeoffs and landings.
The periscope is not part of the Zvezda K-36 escape system.
Some Fouga Magisters have a periscope to improve rear seat visibility for the instructor pilot.
The periscope is not part of the Zvezda K-36 escape system.
Some Fouga Magisters have a periscope to improve rear seat visibility for the instructor pilot.
It is part of that system..you are just not aware.
Then why isn't it on the front seat of the MiG-31, or either seat of the Su-34 or MiG-29? These are all aircraft that use the K-36.
Because this has a different circuit set up. The migs are hand built unlike the way the west does. One machine could have a diff system then the next one and the next one diff again. They are are not series produced. When you pull 'em apart you find all sorts of junk..well not junk but diff circuits. No...they are not the same.
What I'm referring to is still a periscope. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cockpit_of_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-31_%2810%29.jpg and http://russianplanes.net/images/to51000/050475.jpg
You misunderstand....it is wired into the ejection seat system. When that tube retracts the ejection firing system changes. The Russian system is complex yet simple, in fact the whole a/c is an engineers delight. Simple yet effective. The parts change model to model often hand crafted on a bench...and certainly they like to keep a few technologies to themselves. You could operate this off a snow field in Siberia...can't do that with western made kit.