“Whoops, I was pulling on the wrong stick.”
They all said it was the wrong one but it felt so right.
Thank you, satans maggoty cum fart!
Those plane engineers think of everything!
Mig-31 had a major engine fire
Isn’t that the normal operating state of the Foxbat family?
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MiG-25 engine service life is 150 hours, MiG-31 300 hours. These engines are essentially burning themselves to death constantly. For comparison: the 🇨🇵Rafale engine, the Snecma M88-2, has a time between overhauls of 3000 hours, and is designed for a service life of 6000 hours.
Americans built the sr71, a plane that goes mach 3 and above. Russians build the foxbat, a rocket that goes mach 3 and above.
The MiG-31 is only good at one thing: speed. That bad boy can intercept damn near anything but it can’t turn on a dime or go too fast unless shear forces tear its wings and airframe off. It’s pretty much a cool looking paper tiger.
This seems like a fantastic example of “if a metric becomes a target, it fails in being a metric”.
Eh, it works for what it is. The whole plane is basically a manned stage-1 of an AA missile.
Are you thinking of the mig 25? The foxhound was supposedly much more capable at low speed than the foxbat. Genuinely curious
Fun fact for the MiG-25: The engine lifespan is that low because it literally uses a pair of cruise missile engines. They’re built to be used once. I can’t speak for the MiG-31, though.
He got off safely. What a relief.
99% sure reddit poster wrote that intentionally to increase engagement
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(sorry)
Impressive. I find it difficult enough to do while driving! And my passengers complaining also makes it difficult to focus…
I mean, I respect his resourcefulness but a teaspoon of skeet isn’t going to put out an engine fire:o
OP is not an certified NCD member.
Like I couldnt care less but TPM claiming into NCD is fucking BS. Everybody is an NCD member but not TPM. Gatekeeping? No true Scotsman? Salty? It could be any of those. I don’t care.
-edit- this is like generally accepted but not really core NCD contenylr, by a power user. This should not have the attention it has.
But it is (fortunately) not up to me what is OK and what not. But I am gonna point it out anyway.
Sorry, since you hadn’t personally signed off on my many other posts in this community, I figured the approval process had broken down.
So the pilot died doing what he loved?
You ever nut at 3 Gs?
The flight suit pressure-squeeze + the plane banking on 3-jizz makes it a truly unique experience.
(Dang, ngl, that sounds something you def need to kinda try given the chance.)
