Belive it or not, there is a company, Air Capital Warbirds in Kansas, that is rebuilding an F-18 and an F-16 from parts. They might be sold already... They sell other high performance warbirds too, MiGs, A-4s and even F-8s :rock: If I ever win the lottery, that jerk going supersonic over your house in a Crusader will be me :up:

There's also a place in Rockford, Illinois that sells more mainstram warbirds but still way cool stuff!
http://www.courtesyaircraft.com/

Be careful breaking Mach 1 over Rochester or you'll discover what our pilots in 'Nam learned about small arms fire. Hay they don’t call us the Murder Capital of New York for nothing. :up:

If I get the chance I’ll be dog fighting you with my A-4 Skyhawk. I wouldn't mind ziging through downtown office blocks with that! :rock:

:ping: The RPD could even call me in to do close air support for the drug raids in the more seeder sections of the city. A few 500lb snakeeyes are just what a few sections of the city could use. :ping:

[Kent Brockman]This just in, dope dealing down 75%. Malicious aerial strafing up 600%.[/Kent Brockman]

I could use a sub myself... "Hello, eBay? Yes, vere do you keep the nooklear wessels?"

Rochester is the murder capital of NY? Weird, I've been through there a few times and it didn't seem like it. Learn something new everyday.

PD

Yep the Murder rate is 3.49 times the National Average in Rochester. Buffalo is only 2.86 times the National Average, Syracuse 1.53 times the National Average, and Utica 1.52 times the National Average.

http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime....ester&state=NY

... but that’s not to say you shouldn't visit again! :lol:

Yeah - some guy bought a MiG-21 and attempted to hit Mach 2 off the Washington coast about 10 years ago. Never heard from him again. Though it was most likely a structural failure or pilot error that killed him, I think a third possibility exists in that he ran out of gas and hit the drink!

-S

Mig 21 can easily go mach 2 the chez versions and russian versions routinely hit mach 2.2.

Mig 25 was flying over syria and hit mach 3.

I was flying over Iraq in a MiG-29 and hit...a building :oops:

Thankfully it's just a game :up:

Yea but wasn't its engines trashed afterwards? :roll:

Not 100% they could be used again but not at that power so yeah i suppose they were, the cruise speed was mach 2.8 at 75,000 feet thats what they offer when they take rich tourists for rides in them $35,000USD for one hour flight.

Mach 2 for MiG-21 is the outer edge of the envelope. After that, heat generation (not airflow) can rip the wings off. A way to counteract this is to go higher for less airflow, but then you run into a powerplant power generation problem. The upgraded engine viarants probably do hit Mach 2.1 to 2.2 but are basically out of gas at the exact moment they do hit it.

MiG-25 can hit Mach 3 for a short bit, but it destroys the engines. After landing, a MiG-25 that has exceeded Mach 2.8 has its engines thrown completely away and replaced. This is a no no for Russian pilots apparently due to the costs.

-S