On Tuesday 09 May 2006 06:29, flying.toaster wrote: [snip...] > > In many respects the F-14 design is very similar to that of > > the SU-27 family of aircraft. > > True enough, for instance landing gear design (downlocks are > located on the engine nacelle), poded engines, twin tails, > blah, blah. But then the Su-27 is much more refined in its > aerodynamic layout (and quite tempting to model with its > completely outdated flight avionics suite), even though > reports seem to indicate that the tomcat *had* (sigh) quite > amazing high alpha behaviour.
I'm not too surprised about it's high AoA behaviour. The way in which I find it similar to the SU-27 family is that they both use a long chord central lifting body, in to the front of which is inserted a relatively small fuselage nacelle. There's no conventional full-length fuselage, just lots of wing :) The YF-23 is also quite similar in this respect too, but doesn't have the 'tunnel' formed by the widely separated engines. > > To answer Mathias Fröhlich kind offer, I have a few docs > myself (mainly Aerofax volume on the Tomcat), and I am using > Airliners.net quite intensely. Photos are as important as good > drawings when you want to go into detail. If I get stuck > somewhere, I will surely get back to you. I have a large format book on the F-14 detailing the development, design, weapons systems, deployment and service but it's quite old now and doesn't really cover the later models. There's a cut-away drawing but I don't remember off hand how detailed it was. Quite a few side-view colour-scheme drawings and photos. Got a DVD on the F-14 too but it isn't that helpful. Some nice footage though. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
