What a fantastic flight display of the Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) Eurofighter Typhoon aggressively plunging through the sky at high speeds and high Gs, blasting afterburners and gracefully drifting its ass around while pulling sexy water condensation trails and fluff during this year's International Sanicole Airshow in Belgium on September 11th! :D
Gotta love the way this plane moves around!
The Italian RVS 311º Gruppo (Reparto Sperimentale di Volo - Experimental Flight Department) really did a great job with this flight display and we had a cool cloudy background to help! :)
Funny though that although we have the Eurofighter in Spain, I had never had the chance to watch it perform at an airshow... or rather, I did, but either it came only for a static display (and thus only saw it fly off when departing) or other times, they barely made a 'show' but just a few flybys and back to base. Videos for reference below:
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The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard–delta wing, multirole fighter jet featuring lightweight construction (82% composites). It was designed originally as an air superiority fighter and is manufactured by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo. The aircraft's development effectively began in 1983 with the Future European Fighter Aircraft programme, a multinational collaboration among Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain. Disagreements over design authority and operational requirements led France to leave the consortium to develop their own jet independently, which resulted in the Dassault Rafale. A technology demonstration aircraft, the BAe EAP, first took flight on 6 August 1986; the first prototype of the finalised Eurofighter made its first flight on 27 March 1994. The aircraft's name, Typhoon, was adopted in September 1998 and the first production contracts were also signed that year.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is a highly agile aircraft, designed to be a supremely effective dogfighter although later production aircraft have been increasingly better equipped to undertake air-to-surface strike missions as well. This agility, both at supersonic and low speeds is achieved through having an intentionally relaxed stability design. The plane features a quadruplex digital fly-by-wire control system providing artificial stability, to compensate for the inherent instability and it also prevents the pilot from exceeding the permitted manoeuvre envelope.
Although not a stealth fighter, measures were taken to reduce the Typhoon's radar cross section (RCS), especially from the frontal aspect. The engine inlets conceal the front of the jet engine, many important potential radar reflectors (wing, canard, fin, leading edges...) are highly swept, so will reflect radar energy away from the front sector. Some external weapons are mounted semi-recessed into the aircraft, partially shielding these missiles from incoming radar waves. In addition radar-absorbent materials, coat many of the most significant reflectors, such as the wing leading edges, the intake edges and interior, the rudder surrounds, and strakes. While canards generally have poor stealth characteristics, the flight control system is designed to maintain the elevon trim and canards at an angle at which they have the smallest RCS.
SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 1 (2 on the tandem version)
Length: 15.96 m
Wingspan: 10.95 m
Height: 5.28 m
Wing area: 51.2 m2
Empty weight: 11000 kg
Gross weight: 16000 kg
MTOW: 23500 kg
Fuel capacity: 4996 kg / 6215 L internal
Powerplant: 2 × Eurojet EJ200 afterburning turbofan engines, 60 kN thrust each
Maximum speed:
· 2495 km/h / M2.0+ at 10975m altitude
· 1530 km/h / M1.25 at sea level
Supercruise: M1.5
Range: 2900 km
Ferry range: 3790 km+ with 3 × drop tanks
Service ceiling: 19812 m
G limits: + 9, - 3
Rate of climb: 318 m/s
Wing loading: 312 kg/m2
Thrust/weight: 1.15
More info about this jet here:
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International Sanicole Airshow official homepage:
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Chapters:
0:00 - Best-scenes of the Eurofighter flight demo
3:08 - Uncut, full demonstration, stabilized footage
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