May 23, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I was in a discussion with a friend of mine about the Su-47. He is saying that the plane suffered a wing twist and an engine failure on its 5th flight and subsequently crashed. I haven’t heard about this and I even remember the Paralay website posting pictures of what looks like an internal weapons bay test section ON the Su-47.
Now I don’t know when those pictures were taken, but they were released recently. And with the development of internal bays for the PAK FA, I would assume that the Su-47 tests would have to be fairly recent…
So here’s my question:
Has the Su-47 suffered a crash? Furthermore, what are they doing with it now? Is it a test airframe or is it collecting dust in a hangar at Zhukovski?