Aircraft 101: Radars, stealth, ECM and more!

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I did not know which thread to put this one in, so I decided I might as well start a new one...

Lots of "basic" stuff on radars, ECM, stealth, and even one on "fundamental principles of airplane flight":

https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/

I am no expert on any of these fields, but with my limited understanding it looks quite accurate to me, and also quite well described.

What do the experts say? Is this a good source for basic info for the lay person?

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I found that website recently too. Article go from the most basic to very advance but all information are explained in an easy to understand way, and he has a reference list as well. Needless to say it is the best source of unbiased information that i have seen to date.It such a shame that this website isn't nearly as popular as these BS blog from Picard and the like.

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I found that website recently too. Article go from the most basic to very advance but all information are explained in an easy to understand way, and he has a reference list as well. Needless to say it is the best source of unbiased information that i have seen to date.It such a shame that this website isn't nearly as popular as these BS blog from Picard and the like.

and you will have your answer on polarization there.

https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/radar-fundamentals-part-ii/

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It such a shame that this website isn't nearly as popular as these BS blog from Picard and the like.

There are a few reasons for that
1- This website is new, Picard blog, APA has been created for several years already, given enough time they will be equally popular
2-While this website give a lot of knowledge, it doesn't have any "this vs that" sort of comparison, you know that what internet fan boy interested in. Even if the comparison is very dumb.
3- These posts are too long because they need to covered such a big topic. Most people are very lazy to read, they like something simple and being spoon feed to them

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TBH the traffic actually not that bad

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Nice website thanks.

Reading the article about ESM confirms the impression I've had for many years that air combat looks more & more like submarines combat.

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So i just tweak the display of the website abit , changed some pictures to gif so that it look better , but iam abit worried that it may take too long to load , so can someone try and tell me if the front pages load speed is acceptable ? https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/

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So i just tweak the display of the website abit , changed some pictures to gif so that it look better , but iam abit worried that it may take too long to load , so can someone try and tell me if the front pages load speed is acceptable ? https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/

Look good to me

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Look good to me

It doesn't "good" to me, it looks great! :)

Thanks GarryA for putting this together, well done!!!

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So i just tweak the display of the website abit , changed some pictures to gif so that it look better , but iam abit worried that it may take too long to load , so can someone try and tell me if the front pages load speed is acceptable ? https://basicsaboutaerodynamicsandavionics.wordpress.com/

Like loke said, it looks great, the gif load a little bit slow at first, but all web browser have cache so it wouldn't be a problem in my opinion. But if you still concerned about the load speed then you can convert them to gifv instead of gif, reduce files size dramatically.Alternatively, you can convert them to BPG

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Great site GarryA! Just expand a little further the one about areodinamics, please.
Just to explain things about High AoA, supermaneovreaubility, post stall maneuvering and so on.

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It doesn't "good" to me, it looks great! :)

Thanks GarryA for putting this together, well done!!!


Thanks for your kind words :D i will try to keep it up
Like loke said, it looks great, the gif load a little bit slow at first, but all web browser have cache so it wouldn't be a problem in my opinion. But if you still concerned about the load speed then you can convert them to gifv instead of gif, reduce files size dramatically.Alternatively, you can convert them to BPG

So i followed your suggestion and was able to convert GIF to BPG using this https://www.reaconverter.com/convert/gif_to_bpg.html software , the files size reduced significantly from 19 MB to just over 500 KB, too bad though Wordpress doesnt recognize .BPG files type and neither is most software in my laptop, I already tried to convert GiF to GiFv but Wordpress doesnt allow me to upload video. Anyways i optimized the GIF abit , reduce their colour and resolution a tiny bit so now the front page is only half the size ( 10.1 MB now as opposed to 19.5 MB before so hopefully the loading time would be more bearable ( unless you are from Australia , in which case the loading time would be enomous for some weird reason that i havent been able to figure out why )

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Great site GarryA! Just expand a little further the one about areodinamics, please.
Just to explain things about High AoA, supermaneovreaubility, post stall maneuvering and so on.

Actually, the post about aircraft flight was my first blog post ,but it is very short compared to others subject because it is still unfinished , i will finish it in the future but for the moment i need to do more research about it since the field is wide and rather complex.

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So i followed your suggestion and was able to convert GIF to BPG using this https://www.reaconverter.com/convert/gif_to_bpg.html software , the files size reduced significantly from 19 MB to just over 500 KB, too bad though Wordpress doesnt recognize .BPG files type and neither is most software in my laptop, I already tried to convert GiF to GiFv but Wordpress doesnt allow me to upload video. Anyways i optimized the GIF abit , reduce their colour and resolution a tiny bit so now the front page is only half the size ( 10.1 MB now as opposed to 19.5 MB before so hopefully the loading time would be more bearable ( unless you are from Australia , in which case the loading time would be enomous for some weird reason that i havent been able to figure out why )

According to https://www.dotcom-tools.com/website-speed-test.aspx , people that are not from China will load the blog in seconds
https://s14.postimg.org/hsbta4vq9/New_Bitmap_Image.jpg

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Posted wrong link, my bad

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Nice work.

Im curious tho why don't you post range equation for Infra red sensor ?

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New post is up

It has been such a long time since last article, I thought you stopped writing.

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Nice work.

Im curious tho why don't you post range equation for Infra red sensor ?


I must have missed that, i guess. I will add later, thank you for constructive criticism

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It has been such a long time since last article, I thought you stopped writing.

There was several side projects that eat up a significant amount of my time so i didn't have time to finish it, i actually started this post a while ago.