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BD-10 Personal Fighter Jet Needs Modifications for Increased Performance

BD-10 Personal Fighter Jet Needs Modifications for Increased Performance

Probably the coolest innovation in recent Experimental Aircraft History in the new millennium is the new Bede Corporations BD-10 Personal Fighter Jet, with unheard of performance and sporting a 2800 lbs of thrust jet engine. Imagine owning your own little fighter plane aircraft? The BD-10 website has several videos to watch, and any aviation enthusiast like myself will surely get a kick out of it.

The climb rate is over 12,000 feet per minute and it is more comparable to an F-16 than a homebuilt aircraft, even though it is a bit of both. That is to say it has the aerodynamic technology of a modern fighter aircraft and can be built in your garage like a Q-2, Lanceair or Vari Eze. In fact if you will go to the official BD-10 website and download the introduction video you will be amazed at its capability and performance and you will surely want on for yourself. If you just look at the aircraft you can probably figure out that it has a roll-rate comparable to a T-28 or an A-4 Skyhawk.

What modifications could you possibly design into this aircraft to make it even better? Well, how about changing the wings a bit? Now then since the wings do not hold fuel in them why not make them out of inflatable lightweight new high-tech material. Therefore they would be Expandable wings and once at speeds 450 knots or more they could be retracted and thus allow the aircraft less drag, better performance and more efficiency.By cutting down on the drag this supersonic homebuilt aircraft could go even faster and greatly increase it rate of climb and acceleration speed. Bede Corporation needs to think on this in 2006.

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The MiG-3 - Russia's Best WWII Fighter Plane

The MiG-3 - Russia's Best WWII Fighter Plane

The German Luftwaffe in July and August of 1941 encountered for the first time a previously unknown Russian fighter with a long slender nose. It was obviously powered by an inline or "Vee" type engine, which was also surprising because all the Soviet fighters up to that time were powered by radial engines and lacked the performance of the front line German fighters. The Luftwaffe pilots were taken completely by surprise by the existence of this new fighter, because their information from Luftwaffe intelligence about the Soviet Air Force was practically non-existent.

Germany's top fighter at the time was the Bf 109F and the Luftwaffe pilots were equally surprised and disconcerted, to discover this new Soviet fighter could out maneuver at high altitude, fly faster and fly longer, than the Messerschmitt. The MiG-3 had arrived!

Because in the West at that time, the Bf 109F was considered to be the best, or at the very least one of the best, air superiority fighters in the world, the MiG-3 deserves to looked at more closely. The "MiG" was the acronym of the Mikoyan-Gurevich Experimental Construction Bureau design team.

The first model was the MiG-1, a high altitude interceptor powered by a V-12 Mikulin engine that developed 1350 horsepower. It was a sleek, low wing, cantilever monoplane armed with one 50 calibre machine gun and two 30 calibre machine guns, all three mounted in the nose and sychronized to fire through the propeller arc. The first unarmed prototype achieved a top speed of 403 mph, at 20,000 feet, which made it the fastest fighter in the world at that time.

The flight testing program revealed that there were flaws in the design, so modifications were incorporated and the MiG-3 was born. It was built around a steel tube frame with duralumin skin which strengthened the frame. Outwardly it still resembled the MiG-1, but the engine had been moved forward four inches to change the centre of gravity, the dihedral of the wing of the outer wing was increased by one degree, while the height of the rear fuselage was reduced for better rear vision for the pilot. For the engine compartment, the supercharger intakes were enlarged and the radiator fairing moved forward. A 55-gallon fuselage fuel tank was added to increase the range, more armor for the cockpit and finally, four hard-points were added to the wings. This allowed for the installation of small bombs or 6 rockets.

Unfortunately, the production of the MiG-3 was abruptly ended when Stalin ordered the Mikulin engines diverted to the IL-2 attack bomber. Total production amounted to 3120 aircraft with another 50 built from spare parts and through cannibalization of wrecks. There was a later attempt to mate the MiG-3 with a 14 cylinder air-cooled radial engine, but it was not successful.

Many of the production MiG-3's had a .30 caliber machine gun mounted under each wing. This still did not give the MiG-3 firepower parity with the Bf 109F, but it did give more firepower for ground attacks.

Basic specs on the MiG-3 were: Maximum speed of 314 mph at sea level, 398 mph at 35, 590 feet. Its rate of climb was 10 mins to 26,000 feet and the service ceiling was 39,370 ft. It had a range of 512 miles at 342 mph, a maximum range of 743 miles. Empty weight of 5950 lbs and a take-off weight of 7739 with under-wing guns and a full fuel load. Its length was 27 ft, wingspan 33 feet, with a height of only 8 feet.

On paper the MiG-3 and the Messerschmitt Bf 109F were closely comparable fighters. In fact however, the 109 had the advantage of a better initial climb rate and better maneuverability at low to medium speeds and at low to medium altitudes, where most of the dogfighting took place on the Eastern front. The MiG-3 had the advantage in level speed and in range, many times the 109s had to break off because their fuel was running dangerously low. The MiG-3 also had the advantage of much better performance over 30,000 feet but the Bf 109's seldom flew that high.

The MiG-3 never got a chance to play the role it had been designed for: to combat high altitude bombers. The Luftwaffe did not build the four-engine bomber that was meant for use over the Soviet industrial areas. The Russians moved their factories east far enough that they were out of range of the twin engine bombers, so the MiG-3 was forced to fight in a low altitude arena for which it was not designed.

The Germans had one other crucial advantage, their fighters were equipped with the modern reflector gunsights. Most Soviet aircraft had simple gunsights, sometimes a circle drawn on the windshield. It was not until delivery of the P-39 and P-40 fighters that they were finally able to install modern gunsights on their fighters.

In spite of such drawbacks, some Russian pilots were able to achieve some awesome kill figures. Alexander Pokryskin scored 59 official victories, about forty in a MiG-3, the remainder in the P-39. He also destroyed an additional 13 German planes over enemy occupied territory , but these were not officially counted as they were not shot down over Soviet controlled territory. According to Pravda, Pokryshkin flew 650 missions, was involved in 156 air-to-air battles and never lost a wingman. He eventually became a Marshall of the Air Force during the Cold War.

In the last years of the war, the Yak-9 became the dominant fighter for the Soviets and probably contributed more than any other Russian fighter plane to the final defeat of the Luftwaffe. But the first bright, shining star of the Soviet fighter elements was the MiG-3.

The F-22 and the Fighter Aircraft's Future

The F-22 and the Fighter Aircraft's Future

Without doubt, the most exiting combat aircraft of the early 21st century is the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor. A far different aircraft from anything preceding it, the F-22's development history reflects the many problems, both technological and financial, than can beset an advanced system of its kind.

In the late 1970s, the USAF identified a requirement for 750 examples of an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) to replace the F-15 Eagle. The goal was to produce a tactical aircraft that would remain viable for at least the first quarter of the 21st century. This aircraft would have a range 50-100 per cent greater than the F-15, be capable of short take-off and landing on damaged airfields and be able to engage multiple targets at once, beyond visual range. It must incorporate stealth technology and supercruise. Supercruise meant that it could maintain supersonic speeds without afterburners. In addition this paragon of fighter aircraft would have to be operated by a single pilot and be able to survive in an environment filled with people, both in the air and on the ground, whose sole purpose would be to destroy it.

One of the first research projects produced the YF-16 which flew in 1976-77 and demonstrated the decoupling of aircraft flight path and attitude. What this meant is that the aircraft could skid sideways, turn without banking, climb or descend without changing its attitude and point its nose up or down, or right or left, without changing the direction of its original flight path. Another development was the mission adaptive wing (MAW), in other words, the wing was capable of reconfiguring itself automatically to mission requirements.

In April 1991 it was announced that the F-22 by Lougheed coupled with the Pratt & Whitney F119 had won over five other design concepts. The P&W F119 develops 35,000 pounds of thrust (lbst) and is fitted with two-dimensional convergent/divergent exhaust nozzles with thrust vectoring for enhanced performance and maneuverability. The F-22 has two of these engines.

The F-22 combines many stealth features with nearly all its armament stored internally. The aircraft is designed for a high sortie rate, with a turn-around time of twenty minutes and its avionics are highly integrated to provide rapid reaction in air combat, much of its survivability depending on the pilot's ability to locate a target very early and kill it with a first shot.

For any air force, an ideal mix would be a majority of high-performance subsonic V/STOL aircraft, covered by a minority of supersonic interceptors. Many current combat aircraft are supersonic, multi-role and have a very short take-off capability. None, including the Harrier, have a true vertical recovery capability. The Harrier however and the F-22, between them, are as close as any design has come to fulfilling the description of an ideal mix. The limitations on further development are imposed by the astronomical costs of present day aviation research and development.

It was once suggested that, by the middle of the twenty-first century, the entire gross national product of a country like the USA would not be sufficient to develop a new combat aircraft, but that was before computer technology absorbed much of the strain of research and development. The world's major defense research agencies are, through computer analysis and simulation, currently studying the designs of agile aircraft for the year 2050, a generation beyond the F-22.

In the future, use may be made of Remotely Piloted Vehicles (RPV) in air combat, just as they are now being used for reconnaissance duties in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the agile combat aircraft and fighter pilot, will continue to rule tomorrow's skies.

That New Russian Fighter Plane Design Sure Looks Familiar!

That New Russian Fighter Plane Design Sure Looks Familiar!

The Russians now have a new fighter plane to compete with the United States' F-22 Raptor, and the Russia Stealth Aircraft also a fifth generation fighter plane looks like the real thing, or is it Memorex? Indeed, the newest fighter aircraft design from Russia looks awfully similar to one of the America versions of the stealth fighter which competed for the JSF Contract.

Many folks marvel at the Russian aerospace designs and rocket technology, and yet, when looking closer things look eerily familiar, specifically many appear to be outright copies of US aerospace designs. This is well-known by military analysts. Indeed, not long ago, I met a post cold war US-Russian scholar, and I just had to ask him about all this. His name is Jesse Giraldo, perhaps you've heard of him.

Here is the question I asked Mr. Giraldo; "Are you concerned with the new Stealth Fighter copy of Northrop's JSF design bid entry into the Joint-Strike-Fighter fly-off, in Russia; " and here is what he had to say about the whole thing;

Not at all. In fact I find it a bit humorous that this stealth fighter was built in direct response the Air Forces F-22 raptor. It's juvenile but it honestly just sounds like Putin needed a new 5th generation fighter jet to "one up the west". I suppose it is crucial to remind the world that Russia is still capable of challenging the U.S in terms of military but I really doubt the jet lives up to the fanfare. The claims he's making of improved maneuverability and performance at 1/3 of the cost also strikes me as dubious. Of course I doubt the Russian military will be releasing any technical data to backup any of these grandiose statements so all anyone can really do right now is speculate.

Indeed in my opinion, I do agree with Giraldo, and believe the design is good with thrust vectoring, but I question the small vertical (angled) stabilizers, and flutter challenges, we will see. Of course, it is a copy of the Northrop design. You know the Russians seem to have made a version of almost every major aerospace design the US has ever come up with, including their version of our Space Shuttle, B-1, etc. Giraldo agreed stating; "Russia seems to take great pleasure in reverse engineering our creations."

Yes, and the cold war was really all about "our Germans vs. their Germans," as all those scientists in NAZI Germany either went to Russia or came here. Well, at least they seem to enjoy each other's company in the Space Efforts? I've been at least a little impressed with Russian innovation over the years, considering they don't have as much to work with as our abundance and wealth here provides. It's just too bad their spies are busy stealing all of our technology. And let's not even talk about the Chinese and their intellectual property thievery. Please consider all this.

Vertical Take-Off Super Fighter: British Aerospace Sea Harrier and AV-8B Harrier II Plus

Vertical Take-Off Super Fighter: British Aerospace Sea Harrier and AV-8B Harrier II Plus

The Harrier is internationally recognised as the predominant vertical short take-off and landing military fighter aircraft in the world. The aircraft's ability to vertically take-off and land, as well as transition to high speed flight make it a potent and versatile weapon with unmatched capabilities in military aerospace. The latest British and American variants have been fitted with advanced radar giving them formidable beyond visual range functions.

Originally developed by British Aerospace (Hawker Siddeley) in the 1950's the first of many prototypes flew in the 1960's. At first the aircraft was not taken seriously but the British Sea Harrier FRS.Mk1 which is informally referred to as the Jump Jet proved to be a very effective and capable aircraft during the Falklands conflict in 1982. The Harrier design is commonly used from aircraft carriers.

Historically it was developed with the intention of having the British RAF deploy it close to the Soviet Union, where its VTOL capabilities would have made it able to operate from make shift facilities such as parking lots or forest clearings and where it would have been less vulnerable to attack. The American AV-8B Harrier showed both its effectiveness and shortcomings during the Gulf War in 1992 and inspired the greatly improved Harrier II plus. The Sea Harrier is a naval strike/air defense fighter. The AV-8B and BAE Harrier II are the US and British variants respectively of the second generation Harrier aircraft.

The Harrier operates from land and sea bases and can carry an array of weapons from conventional missiles and bombs to nuclear ordinance. With an endurance of over 3 hours and a maximum cruise speed of 1065 km/h the Harrier can be deployed very quickly and deliver a punishing array of weapons with precision, in forward flight or in a hover. The primary operators of the newest variants of the harrier are the US Marine Corps and the British Navy. India operates the British FRS.Mk1 version from two of their carriers and Italy and Spain operate the American AV-8B Harrier II plus version primarily in an air defence role.

With more than forty years in service the Harrier has proven itself on the battlefield and has paved the way for its successor to continue the impressive role of the vstol fighter. Known as the Joint Strike Fighter the F-35 lightening has been developed by a consortium of countries to fulfill a number of roles. At least one of the three variants has advanced vstol capabilities and incorporates stealth technology and advanced avionic and weapons systems. The Harrier has shown the world how effective and useful a vstol fighter aircraft can be for military operations and the F-35 lightening will continue its legacy well into the future.

Stealth Fighter Radar - How to Avoid Compromising a Fighter's Position

Stealth Fighter Radar - How to Avoid Compromising a Fighter's Position

To begin with things very clear, fighter radars are not only what the main people think they are. Supposedly, just a way to detect enemy aircraft. That's not a bad understanding, but it needs to be complemented saying that if you detect an enemy aircraft with your fighter radar, the enemy aircraft will automatically detect you.

A fighter radar is just some waves sent in the air. This waves get reflected on an object like a plane, and come back to your plane where they are detected by sensors and analyzed to determine position, speed, direction of flight, and even kind of aircraft located. As an aircraft needs to have sensors to detect its own reflected waves, it also will detect any ways that are sent to it. This is the reason why when sending waves to detect an aircraft will automatically reveal our position.

This has even another problem. A fighter radar has a certain range of detection. This is the distance in which the waves can travel in one way, get reflected, and come back with the strength enough as to provide a signal in the pilot's screen. In this way, we can say that the aircraft that a radar can effectively detect can be placed up to 100 miles, to set an example. But the problem is that all other aircraft placed between 100 miles and 200 miles will be alerted of our presence, but we will never know about their presence.

All this reasoning brings to a conclusion. There is a need to take advantage of this situation, and this is how the active and passive fighter radars were created. An active fighter radar is the one that actively sends waves in order to detect anything placed within its effective range. A passive fighter radar is a listening one. It simply waits to receive waves from all the airplanes around that are using their active radars. This combined with a strong stealth condition can guide an aircraft to his enemy without even being detected.

Unfortunately, not in all combat situation this is a possibility. Normally the strategy involves to use the passive radar to approach targets, but when it is time to engage and fire, the active fighter radar sometimes must be switched on in order to allow the missile to get the information and follow it. Some missiles need the guidance of the airplane's radar until they hit the target, which compromises heavily the aircraft's position. Recently, many missiles have been developed in which you simply can fire and forget. Switch for a few seconds to active radar, pass the information to the missile, fire and switch off the active radar.

Combining this methodology with a change of direction, speed and altitude just after the launch of the missile gives always the less compromise to the position of the plane. In any case, compromising the position of the plane for a few seconds is always necessary when firing, as it involves a extreme heat that infrared detectors can locate, and with stealth fighters like the F22 Stealth Fighter, it involves the opening of doors that get the Radar Cross Section extremely enlarged.

Aurora Origami Fighter Plane Does Have an Important Mission

Aurora Origami Fighter Plane Does Have an Important Mission

What is the future of origami fighter planes? To find out the answer to this question, I combed the internet and went to the public libraries. To my astonishment, I found an article that gives me an insight of a pioneering futuristic application of origami planes.

Japanese scientists, working closely with the Japan Origami Airplane Association, have prototyped a spacecraft made of chemically treated special paper that is resistant to intense heat and wind. This prototype survived many of the tests that simulate outer space conditions. Some of the tests include putting the origami spacecraft under Mach 7 speeds and 230Celsius temperature inside a hypersonic high speed wind tunnel. This implies that the light weight and proprietary paper technology address the heat and frictional problems allowing the paper spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere gradually descending back to earth. The research team took a further step to request a Japanese astronaut to release this origami plane from the space station and it could take many months for this origami spaceship to make its way back to earth. Once this technology is proven, the origami technology could be used for future unmanned spacecraft.

But again, many spacecrafts and fighter plane developments have been shelved along the way due to technology or financial constraints. Some military fighter plane development are even so classified that what we hear are rumours or leaked news. One such example is the Aurora (also known as the SR-91 Aurora).

The Aurora is an unconfirmed US reconnaissance aircraft believed to have been developed in the 1980s-1990s to replace the SR-71 Blackbird. It is also believed to be capable of hypersonic flight at speeds up to Mach 4-6, and possibly up to near Mach 10 at high altitude flights.

News of its manufacture was released in 1990, with Aurora used as the codename for a variety of projects, probably meant to result in the production of hypersonic aircraft for the military. The hypothesised contractor, Lockheed, which also developed the F-117A Stealth fighter/bomber and U2 Dragon Lady, has probably already used a budget of $4-5 billion.

Several sightings and observations have been made since the supposed period of development and prototyping in the 1980s, both by individuals and by meteorological sensors.

As an intriguing subject shrouded in secrecy, the Aurora has been featured in popular games and other media including computer game Command & Conquer: Generals, the film Falcon Down, and novel Area 51.

The Aurora has intrigued me for years that I have developed an origami model of it. Having done the origami future applications research, my wildest dream is to see the Aurora origami model that I develop land up in Mars and finding its way back to Earth. This is no more an impossible dream. Who knows?

2007 Trends in Artificial Intelligent UAV Fighter Aircraft

2007 Trends in Artificial Intelligent UAV Fighter Aircraft

The Future of the Top Gun Fighter Pilot is almost over and indeed their days are numbered. This will be the last generation of human fighter pilots due to the rapidly advancing artificial intelligence and unmanned aerial vehicle technologies. Soon airliners will fly themselves just like light-rail systems only without the tracks. The cost savings to build aircraft without cockpits and human systems for control will save hundreds of thousands of dollars or even millions in some cases. But this is not the only reason.

Consider if you will the cost of the military to recruit, train, house, feed a human fighter pilot. Think about the loss if you lose them in battle, not only have you lost a 50 million dollar or more aircraft, you have lost all your return on investment in training too. Indeed human pilots also have limits that future artificial intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles will not have. Humans cannot withstand much more than 8'Gs and we have missiles that can handle over 18'Gs now. In the future Fighter Aircraft without humans will be able to do the same and therefore complete nearly impossible maneuvers by today's standards.

The current predictions and UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Roadmaps of the United States Air Force and United States Navy are calling for increased use of robotic aircraft and huge decreases in human piloted aircraft. Both cost and technology are driving this progression, but also driving this solution is the competition or potential adversaries. For our fighter aircraft to be more competitive and continue to dominate the skies removing the weakest link, the human pilot makes a lot of sense much to the chagrin of pilots like my Dad who did 250 combat missions in Vietnam in an US Navy A-4.

I hope you will enjoy this intellectual thought and concept. Maybe you will find it mindful and thought provoking, as this is its intended purpose. Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought?

A List Of The World's Best Modern Fighter Jet Plane In 2011

A List Of The World's Best Modern Fighter Jet Plane In 2011

A fighter jet plane is a military jet plane configured mainly for air-to-air fight with other jet plane, as contrary to a bomber, which is configured mainly to approach ground targets by firing bombs. Fighters are fast, small and maneuverable. Several fighters have secondary ground-attack abilities, and a few are dual-rolled as fighter-bombers; the term "fighter" is also sometimes used conversationally for devoted ground-attack aircraft. Fighter jet planes are the basic means by which armed forces acquire air superiority over their opponents in combat.

Modern Fighter Jet Planes:
Modern fighter jet planes are predominantly powered by one or two turbojet engines, and are furnished with radar as the basic technique of target acquisition. Armament consists primarily of air-to-air missiles with cannon as backup armament (usually between 20 to 30 mm in gauge); however, they can also often employ air-to-ground missile, as well as guided and unguided bombs.

List of main fighter jet planes currently being used by several armed forces is shown below;
EF 2000 Typhoon
F-117A Night Hawk
F-15C Eagle
F-16C Falcon
F-18E Super Homet
F 22A Raptor
Harrier GR9
Mirage 2000-5
SU 27 Flanker
Tornado ADV Mk3

The Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor is fast, has a long range, and is more maneuverable than any other jet in the sky.

The World's Best Modern Fighter Jet Plane

The F-22A Raptor is a fifth generation modern fighter jet plane which employs stealth technology of fourth generation. It was earlier projected as an air superiority fighter for use against the Soviet Air Force, but is furnished for electronic warfare, signals intelligence roles and ground attack as well.

Features

First view/first kill in all surroundings- A combination of improved sensor capability, improved situational awareness and improved weapons allows first-kill chance against the threat. The F-22 owns the advanced suit of sensors that allow pilot to chase, identify, and hit the threat before it finds the F-22. Important effort is being put on cockpit figure and avionics fusion to improve the pilot's situational knowledge. Sophisticated avionic technologies provide the F-22 sensors to accumulate merge and display necessary data in the most valuable format to the pilot.

Decreased observables- Progresses in less-observable technologies allow importantly improve lethality and survivability against ground to air and air to air threats. The combination of F-22's decreased observability and supercruise emphasis the advantage of surprise in tactical surroundings.

Ultrasonic persistence- Especially in the military (non-afterburner) power, the F-22 engines create more drive than any current modern fighter engine. This feature provides the F-22 to expeditiously cruise at ultrasonic airspeeds without utilizing afterburner (supercruise). This ability greatly booms the F-22's controlling envelope in both range and speed over current modern fighters jet planes which must use afterburner to control at ultrasonic speeds.

Expanded maneuverability- The F-22 has been broadly tested, refined and designed aerodynamically on the demonstration and validation process and paired with high-maneuver capability. The advanced F-22 aerofigure and high thrust to weight allows the capacity to outmaneuver all projected and current threat aircraft.

Improved battle radius on interior fuel- To check the F-22 allows air superiority for rich-interdiction aircraft, it functions at medium and high elevation at ranges superior to modern generation air superiority aircraft.

Increased survivability and lethality- The above features provide an interactive effect that assures F-22 casualty against sophisticated air threat. The combination of supercruise drastically and reduced observability shrivels ground-to-air combat and downplays threat potentialities to occupy and hit the F-22.

Air to ground ability- The F-22 has another purpose to attack ground targets. The fighter jet will use on-board avionics for navigation and weapons delivery support and will be able to bearing 2 x 1,000 lbs Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs) inwardly.