MAKS 2013

It was interesting to see Russian technology and maybe more important, philosophy when it comes to airplanes. Ont thing is clear, there is no shortage of innovation in Russia, and even if things looks inferior at first glance, there is more than meets the eye. A lot more.

Some, not so good, pictures from MAKS:

T-50 with some contrails.

SU-34 gave a good show:

Rafale opted for Speed in the lousy weather on sunday (low ceiling):

Big nose SU-35 at static display:

...and that were almost the only pictures that turned out good from my visit to MAKS (lended a camera and missed some important settings...) well.  Next time...

Maintenance

Aircraft developement threats

Two pictures says it all.....

What we envision:

What we encounter:

Smart Bomb

Miles M-52, amazing innovation from a small company

I bought this book, it's a quite interesting piece about one odd but quite interesting aircraft project that could have been ten years ahead of its time, if it had been pushed trough developement. There are some sour grapes from the writers about the fact that they were not funded to continue development, right or not. It would have been a remarkable aircraft and I guess that the technichal problems would have been overcomed and that it could have revolusionzed airplane design for centuries, but it never happened.

Nice book anyway. Worth the money.