On Saturday 20 September 2003 17:45, Jorge Van Hemelryck wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:29:48 +0200 > Matevz Jekovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For modern military aircrafts, I would make the following hierarchy: > > - Fighter (most of F-xx, Rafale, MiG-s, Sukhoi-s) > > - Attack (A-10, Harrier, Tornado, Mirage 2000, my J-22, Su-25) > > - Bomber (F-117, B-1, B-2, B-52, Iljusin-s) > > - Transport-Support (Hercules, Galaxy, KC-10, KC-135, Antonov-s) > > - EWS (EC-3? AWACS, Prowler) > > - Recon (light, fast, reconaissance aircrafts) > > - Trainee (light military aircrafts developed specially for teaching) > > hum... > > The Mirage 2000C is definitely a fighter, whereas the Mirage 2000D would > be a fighter-bomber (is that what you call attack aircraft?), as it does > have air-to-air capacity. > > The Mirage F1C was a fighter (no longer in service in France), the F1CT is > an attack aircraft, and the F1CR a reconnaissance aircraft. All of them > can act as fighters as well. > > And the Rafale was designed to be a multirole aircraft as well. > > Maybe you could make some distinctions among MiG and Sukhoi aircraft... > For instance, the Su-27 was mainly a fighter, until more recent versions > gained air-to-ground capacity, whereas the Su-25 is just an attack > aircraft. > > I'm not really criticizing, but I'm saying it's going to be more and more > difficult to sort all these modern aircraft in categories. > > -- > Jorge Van Hemelryck
Those are pretty good points and we risk having more categories than a/c. Categeories could be helpful to someone who doesn't know what they want to fly but the categories should be kept small and simple. Perhaps several simple lists might be easier to handle, such as Size, Propulsion, Use etc, with simple categories in each list, such as Small, Medium & Large in the Size list, Piston, Turbine & Rocket in the Propulsion list and Civil, Military, Experimental & Research in the Use list. Each a/c would appear in each list, in the appropriate category, so for example, the 747 would appear in the Large category of the Size list, the Turbine category of the Propulsion list and the Civil category in the Use list. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
