Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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F-22 Raptor-ski: Part II

May 21st, 2007 No Comments

Seems all isn’t skittles ‘n’ beer over in Sukhoi land   these days…

Funding for the new engine for Russia’s next-generation fighter, the Sukhoi T-50, is in big financial trouble, and will force the aircraft’s firsts flight in 2009 to be undertaken with AI-31 engines now used on the Su-27. NPO Saturn, which led the [...]

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