Orao (Eagle) J22 Serbian Airforce 1~32

[szeli]

Wow! Excelent work!

[MacSongLi]

Beautiful Design work, and a great build. An aircraft I had never heard of. Will you making them available for sale?

Thanks,
Gary

[deki]

Thanks, Gary!
I'm glad you like it, and, yes I am planing to make construction manual for model sale.
Little data available on the plane (source - wikipedia in serbian):
J-22 Eagle fighter aircraft was developed and marketed by serial cooperation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Romania, through the cooperation of two miltary aircraft Institute and the aviation industry. The first prototype flew in 1974, and experienced international promotion of the aviation exhibition in Paris.

In addition to the adoption of several new technologies, Eagle has historical significance and by the fact that he was the first domestic aircraft was flying at a higher speed than the speed of sound.
It was created in response to needs that the current attack planes own production J-21 Goshawk, who were in the arms of the Air Force Yugoslavia, replacing the more modern aircraft for support, which can be used for specific tasks of combat air-to-air. Uzor, in conceiving, he was a role model Franco-British attack aircraft Jaguar (Eng. SEPECAT Jaguar). The conceptual similarity between these two planes is obvious (both are twin-engine aircraft with reinforced landing gear to the fuselage and nacelles with a similar arrangement of arms and podded line). Due to export restrictions more modern engines, greater thrust, designers have had to settle with the older, classic turbo-jet engine Viper 632, lesser and greater thrust specific fuel consumption, which is why the Eagle consequently had a much worse performance than its model. The situation is somewhat seemingly improved with the installation of additional combustion chamber. It was necessary, improve the performance take-off and maneuvering, along with additional increase in fuel consumption. Following the principles of the profession supplementary combustion is primarily used to achieve supersonic speeds and maneuvers and achieve good at executing combat missions. Support occurs at low altitudes, where the use of additional combustion, due to the increase of heat reflection, which increases the risk of the effects of surface-to-air missiles. In addition, at low altitudes must save fuel due to higher consumption. It follows that the Eagle, in combat conditions, can be used only in the supplementary combustion takeoff. This problem is resolved in similar planes in this category, with the start ("Jet") missile, which, after take-off and shutdown, discarded.

[willygoat]

Somehow I missed this until now. I love your model. I have never heard of this plane before, and I love to dig up info about strange planes. I hope you are able to develop this for sale, as it is unique in a vast market of popular aircraft models.

[deki]

Thank you willygoat!!!