Amazing manuverability. If you change the axis of the exhaust, it pushes the tail of the aircraft around a LOT faster than normal, and lets you do manuvers you normally couldn't do.

That's great and all, but it's not really a big deal.

The MiG-29OVT is just an experimental Fulcrum and will most likely never enter service.

I just hope some pictures are taken and posted of this aircraft when the MAKS airshow does take place.






seekerof

Prelude, could you please site a link to your large quote posted above. Thanks

Originally posted by Hockeyguy567
That's great and all, but it's not really a big deal.

The MiG-29OVT is just an experimental Fulcrum and will most likely never enter service.

Not necessarily true..
The MiG-29 OVT .. was shown (not flown) at the Aero-India 05' and it may be a good buy if the a/c can be made carrier worthy.. I don't think any navy a/c currently have TVC.

This smorning when i got up i was watching SBS on Austrlian T.V. which

has Russin news or something and a big chunk of the half hour was what i

saw was a MiG29 doin crazy manouvering that you would have a hard time

seeing acrobatic planes doin than that Beruit was pictured. But the mig

looked very specy althoug i couldn't understand what was being said I

kinda got the drift but not that it was a experimental plane. Then you see

the president go for a flight in a Blackjack which are as well very specy.

Pitty I didn't record it outherwise I wouldve posted it but if you really want

it i guess you can send an email to SBS Australia or something.

But yes Mig was very kool Beruit looked ok in flight and Blackjack is 100%
B-1

here is some more details about the bird by a poster in some other forum

"The MiG-29M (9-15) will not be build instead of this single design there are now 4 designes instead.
> The MiG-29M1 (single seat) and MiG-29M2 (dual seat). THese aircraft were formaly knows as MiG-29MRCA which stands for MultiRoleCombatAircraft. These aircraft are offered to Malaysia in the now going contest.
> THe other two designes are the MiG-29K/KUB. These are offered or ordered to/by India. This are carrier capbale aircraft.

> The four designes are for 90% equal to each other. In the MiG-29M1/2 aircraft are based on the the MiG-29K/KUB They have also the folding wings of the MiG-29K/KUB only the arrester hook has been replaced by a brake parachute. Further changes are in the cockpit. All four type of aircraft have the Zhuk-M radar, and can fire both the newest air to air missiles and air to ground missiles. These new MiG's are also equipped with a new line or engies with a higher thrust

> The MiG-29OVT is a demonstator of TVC engines on a MiG29 and when wanted by a costumer they can be placed on the MiG-29"

Nice plane... here are some pics... I really like the MIg 29, it's good looking and my favourite of the Russian planes...

Well the fictional mig 31 firefox, anyway!

Hihi. The firefox is back. Too bad it's not true!!

So why 3d vectoring hasn't been used commercially?

The X-31 has it, but it seems that as with the forward swept wings in reality it doesn't work that well.

3-D thrust vectoring is for aircraft that require high maneuverability.
IMHO, I am not seeing a need for this in a commerical application.






seekerof

3-D thrust vectoring is still in its infancy as far as usability in the commercial world but it definately has a use. 3-D thrust can negate the need for a tail on aircraft saving huge amounts of weight and drag.

Impressive I will admit. I'm a little worried at the US air inventory's lack of that kind of maneuverability. However, can it do that high speeds where it counts?