Film of the F-106 gun trials
Competition to give Sukhoi PAK FA a ‘NATO reporting name’
The Russians cannot be trusted to give their aircraft emotive English language names. Luckily for them, NATO helped them with this throughout the Cold War. The assigned code-names ranged from the cool (‘Foxhound’) to the bizarre (‘Fishbed’) to the slightly unsavoury (‘Fiddler’). Sadly this now seems to be over. Should we let these exciting aircraft be known only by a bland designation? NO!
We’re running a competition to give the PAK FA a HRN (Hush-Kit Reporting Name) . The winning entry will be sent to Sukhoi’s public relations department and hopefully they will read it, like it, and adopt the name.
Rules
1. The name must begin with ‘F’.
2. It must contain two syllables.
3. Names to be submitted by Twitter only. Address to @Hush_Kit with hashtag #PAKFAname
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Nudity! Biplanes! Gin! An exclusive artwork for Hush-Kit from Danny Noble
The artist explains:Â “This is Oliver Reed and Alan Bates of ‘Women In Love’ taking a fly in Steve McQueen’s plane out of Thomas Crown Affair while drinking Humphrey Bogart’s gin from Casablanca. Hope that cleared everything up.” Click on the image to see more of Danny’s wonderful cartoons
Fantastic! Rare film of the Sukhoi ‘Fitter’ (with annoying dance music)
The Mirage 4000: an exercise in divine noise and insane power
Incredible film of Saab Drakens performing the ‘Cobra’
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Look at 1.53 min. Wow.