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BaA43A3aHY

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Posting about MiG-23, MiG-21, B-58 & others. Aerodynamics, Structures, Engines & Flight Performance. @BaA43A3aHY on the other platform.

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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
F-4B Phantom II. The fastest operational Phantom, the early F-4B, with J79-GE-8 engines, and 4 belly mounted Sparrows, Mach 2.25.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
F-15A - 60% internal fuel (JP-4, 6.5 lb/gal), clean, gun ammo, 35,000 lb. Mach 2.31 at ISA conditions (t=15°C).
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Celebrating 10 years since the F-16 arrived in Romania. Ex-Portuguese air on the left, ex-Norwegian one on the right.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Celebrating 10 years since the F-16 arrived in Romania. Ex-Portuguese air on the left, ex-Norwegian one on the right.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Iraqi MiG-23MLs during the 1991 Gulf War. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Eternal Warrior VI: The Iraqi MiG-23s Facing Storm
1988-1991 perio
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Herastrau.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Lavochkin La-15 Fantail.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Fantails! Scramble!
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Fly my pretties! Fly! 🧙‍♀️
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Proof that the La-15 was much better than the MiG-15.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
La-15 (Ла-15) emblem on the front fuselage.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
MiG-21F-13, supersonic sports car🧵 I've discussed in previous threads about how fast the MiG-21PF/PFM and MiG-23 were. Well, the MiG-21F-13 was actually a pretty fast airplane too, despite it having the weakest engine out of all Fishbeds.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Iraqi MiG-23MLs in combat, 1984-88. Article by Milos Sipos. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Eternal Warrior V: The MiG-23ML Finally in Combat
From 1984 to 1988
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Afterburner - The Aviation Magazine @afterburneravia.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Time for #Sunday with Afterburner Archives! This #RomanianAirForce #MiG21 LanceR C was photographed at #Kecskemet in 2021. The #legendary #fighter served #Romania for over 60 years, outliving both the MiG-23 and MiG-29 before its final retirement in 2023.
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Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF LanceR C —
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MF LanceR C (c/n 96006487, ´6487´ of the Romanian Air Force), static display at Kecskeméti Repülőnap és Haditechnikai Bemutató 2021 (Kecskemet Air Show 2021), Kecskemet, August ...
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Iraqi MiG-23MLs in combat, 1984-88. Article by Milos Sipos. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Eternal Warrior V: The MiG-23ML Finally in Combat
From 1984 to 1988
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MiG-21 LanceR-B with F-16D.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Iraqi MiG-25RB being shot at by an Iranian F-5E (flown by Col. Mohammad Zare-Nejad), 4 July 1986. The Foxbay made it back to base, but was subsequently written off.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Community Request❗ I'm looking for weight data for Tornado F3. All I could find is from the Crowood book👇🏻 Tornado ADV empty: 14,450 kg Internal fuel: 1,920 gal (7,268 L) Any Tonka fans that can help me out❓
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Tornado F3, 60% fuel, light combat configuration, limit load factor n=7.4, sea level, χ unspecified (likely χ=26° with combat manoeuvre high-lift devices): max instantaneous turn rate: 19.0°/s max sustained turn rate: 15.1°/s
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A bit of Tornado F3 to fend off boredom.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
MiG-21 LanceR-B with F-16D.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Convair B-58 Нustlеr 🧵 The B-58 was the most technologically advanced aircraft of its time. A Mach 2 capable, wasp-waisted war chariot, drawn by four J79s, that included silver brazed stainless steel honeycomb sandwich panels in its design.
YB-58 (aircraft № 1).
Cover of Aviation Week magazine.
Issue February 25, 1957.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The pivot pin itself is heat treated to a UTS of 1,792 - 1,930 MPa). The wings could be manually swept (χ= 16° - 72°) only when manoeuvring at loads less n<4, with about 3.5 °/s in n=1 conditions. The F-111, much like the MiG-23, also went through a "structural saga" early in its operational life.
F-111 WCTB (WPS) upper plate being machined.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Iranian F-4E Phantom II during the Iran-Iraq war.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🇷🇴🤝🇧🇬 How do you smuggle perfume & cigarettes over communist borders? With MiG-19s. Sometime in the 1960s, Bulgarian MiG-19PMs flew north over the Danube, in a visit to the Romanian Air Force base of Deveselu, home of the 91st Fighter Aviation Regiment, which also was operating MiG-19PMs.
Romanian MiG-19PM at Deveselu Air Base.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Czech Su-22 pilot interview, now with English language subtitles. O létání s SU-22 (František Císař) youtu.be/Dob-4uyXIak?...
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O létání s SU-22 (František Císař)
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Czech Su-22 pilot interview, now with English language subtitles. O létání s SU-22 (František Císař) youtu.be/Dob-4uyXIak?...
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O létání s SU-22 (František Císař)
YouTube video by O létání
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Acceleration Time Curves at H=40,000 ft McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Effect of external stores (drag & weight) on supersonic acceleration time.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Acceleration Time Curves at H=40,000 ft McDonnell Douglas F-15A with F100-PW-100 (engine trim at 102%). Effect of external stores (drag & weight) on supersonic acceleration time.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Acceleration Time Curves at H=35,000 ft McDonnell F-4. Effect of external stores (drag & weight) on supersonic acceleration time.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Acceleration Time Curves at H=35,000 ft Lockheed F-104A with J79-GE-19 engine. Effect of aircraft weight (varying internal fuel amount) on supersonic acceleration time.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fighter Aircraft Thrust/Weight & Wing Loading (updated) Combat weight with enough fuel for 5 minutes of maximum reheat.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
English Electric Lightning stuff. Ferranti AIRPASS AI.23: ≈90 kg (≈200 lb). Empty Lightning F Mk.6: ≈13,400 kg Radar/Aircraft: 0.67%
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Rolls-Royce Avon Mk. 302-C.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Fighter Aircraft Thrust/Weight & Wing Loading (updated) Combat weight with enough fuel for 5 minutes of maximum reheat.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Eternal Warrior IV: Introducing the MiG-23ML into Iraqi service milos984.substack.com/p/eternal-wa...
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Eternal Warrior IV: Introducing the MiG-23ML into Iraqi service
Technical Intro:
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Eternal Warrior IV: Introducing the MiG-23ML into Iraqi service milos984.substack.com/p/eternal-wa...
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Eternal Warrior IV: Introducing the MiG-23ML into Iraqi service
Technical Intro:
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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Improve the missile density of your battery with this one simple trick!
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
F-15A vs. F-15C So the F-15A with F100-PW-100 (97.7% trim) turns roughly the same as an F-15C with F100-PW-220, according to the 01 July 1989 flight manual.
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BaA43A3aHY @baa43a3ahy.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Soviet MiG-21R
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