Su-57 flies with new engine

AN EXAMPLE of the Su-57 fighter made its first flight powered by the new NPO Saturn izdeliye 30 (product 30) engine on December 5. The ‘second-stage’ powerplant, flown on the port side of prototype Su-57 ‘052’ (T-50-2), will be used on series production aircraft from 2020. The 17-minute maiden flight with the new engine was conducted at the Gromov Flight Research Institute at Zhukovsky, with test pilot Sergei Bogdan at the controls. Sukhoi has completed and flown nine flight-test prototypes