This beast is crazy! I have always loved the Russian's advancement of air combat hardware, but this thing is off the charts! It's the only plane I have held in a stall for a constant five minutes and not hit the ground.I have here a few examples of the (not so) flying this thing is capable of. I have pushed it to the envelope in training myself how to "tame" this beast. This aircraft's only weakness is it's human pilot bounds it to the laws of physics. Please enjoy this selection I bring you this evening. ;D
Here she is climbing at 120 knots and bleeding speed

By 50 knots, the nose is thrown with the deflection of the large tailerons and differential thrust.

The plane continues this seemingly impossible roll through the same controls at ~40 knots.

She stalls out at 25 knots and descends laterally.

The differential thrust continues to swing her nose around.

The large tailerons deflect the air so she rolls to the left while maintaining her belly forward movement and stalls out in this position for several seconds.

Gravity again takes ahold of her as her nose is swung down and forward airspeed is gained.

Throttle is openned and she quickly accelerates toward the ground to gain airspeed and pull into level flight.

Enough airspeed is obtained to roll right and level out.

These shots are added for fun and an artsy feel to the aircraft in American Naval colors.


Thank you all for viewing! I hope you have enjoyed! Let me know if my narration was cheesey. ;D
Comments/critiques are welcome.







