Here is the YouTube link to the flying Show-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf6lCH5dRQw

Below is some commentary that was sent to me about this plane...HOWEVER, I strongly DISAGREE, I think the US F-22 could whip this bird in a heartbeat?? Still pretty Fancy Flying!!...from here, commentary, not my words-
-posted in 2009-so not that new!!

"THIS IS AN ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE PIECE OF FILM, INCREDIBLE TO SAY THE LEAST. "



(Unreal) Russian Jet -- Read before viewing

The red smoke coming from the wingtips is only there to demonstrate to spectators on the ground the direction the plane is actually moving through the air.

Normally the smoke wouldn't be there. When the smoke is streaming behind, the airplane is moving fast forward etc.

When the airplane is engulfed in smoke, it means the airplane is almost stopped in mid-air.

The maneuverability of this plane is incredible. This plane would be nearly impossible to defeat in a dogfight.

*****Russia may now have the #1 fighter plane in the world... SU-30- Vectored Thrust with Canards...

*****As you watch this airplane, look at the canards moving along side of, and just below the canopy rail.

*****The "canards" are the small wings forward of the main wings.

*****The smoke and contrails provide a sense of the actual flight path, sometimes in reverse direction.

*****This video is of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russian's-30MK fighter aircraft.

****The fighter can stall from high speed, stopping forward motion in seconds. (full stall).


Then it demonstrates an ability to descend tail first without causing a compressor stall.
It can also recover from a flat spin in less than a minute.


These maneuver capabilities don't exist in any other aircraft in the world today..
Take a look at the video with the sound up.. This aircraft is of concern to U.S and NATO planners.

We don't know which nations will soon be flying the SU-30MK, hopefully China isn't one of them..


Friends worked with advanced aircraft flight control systems and concepts for many years as an extension of stability control and means of control. Canards and vectored thrust were among many concepts examined to extend our fighter aircraft performance.
Neither our current or next generation aircraft now poised for funding & production can in any way match the performance of this Russian aircraft. Somehow the bankrupt Russian aircraft industry has out produced our complex politically tainted aerospace industry with this technology marvel.
Scratch any ideas of close in air-to-air combat with this aircraft in the future.


Maximize your screen for best viewing.

One little glitch in the computer and you had best eject, because the pilot is doing little of the flying methinks.

While that thing is doing all that fancy flying, it's painting a big, juicy, slow target for an American F-22.

Nice demo, but can he lock you up and actually fire any weapons while maneuvering like that? And how many Russian pilots actually get enough flight time in any given year to be capable of flying the airplane to the edge of its envelope?

I'll take any American in an F15/16/18/22 over this guy any day of the week.

dream it,russians are proven best in the air,sombody told me going on the moon was fake like everything else

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because the pilot is doing little of the flying methinks.

That ^^^^^^ is a HUGE misconception. The pilot is doing all of the flying. The fly by wire system is nothing more than a way for the control surfaces to receive input from the from the stick which the pilot is flying by hand.

When we use the term computerized, or electronic, or fly by wire system it confuses the lay person and makes them think that the computer is doing the flying. Nothing could be further from the truth. A fly by wire system is nothing more than a different means of communicating with your flight controls.

Exactly the same difference as a manual cable and pulley control system is to a hydraulic actuated control system.

In a manual system the pilot puts in a control input which moves a cable which moves a pulley which moves flight control surface which moves the airplane.

In a hydraulic system the pilot puts in a control input which activates a hydraulic actuator which moves a flight control which moves the airplane.

In a fly by wire or "computerized" flight control system the pilot puts in a control input the control stick has a magnetic position sensor in it which sends a signal to flight control computer which sends a signal to flight control actuator which moves the flight control which moves the airplane.

In all three cases the pilot is the one controlling the airplane the computer in this case is just there to send the instantaneous and correct control inputs which the pilot has asked for.

The computer is NOT flying the airplane any more than your computer typed the words you used on your post. In fact that is a good analogy a fly by wire system is to a manual or hydraulic control system what a PC with a key board is to a manual type writer. In either case you still have to do the typing but the words are printed by a different means, one being manually input by a key on a type writer hitting the paper the other being data input then correlated and spit out of a printer. The outcome is the same but the capability is far greater with the computerized system in either case.

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Originally posted by TEUTONIC:
dream it,russians are proven best in the air,

Says who? And by what "proof"?

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sombody told me going on the moon was fake like everything else

WHAT????????