Well, just keep guessing I suppose (?)
I made that statement for a number of reasons:
1. There have been many eyewitnesses to view the aircraft as it carried out its taxi trials.
2. There have also been an official visit to Chengdu of the Central Military Commission, that viewed the J-20 from December 16 through December 21
3. There are two prototypes that have been built.
4. The taxi trials have finished
5. And there is a tight schedule to fly the aircraft before the end of 2010
Also, the J-20 is a major issue of national Chinese pride and they want the world to see that China can also build and fly advanced stealth aircraft. Plus I believe that there exists a small friendly competion with the Russians that intends to fly their second T-50 PAK-FA prototype. Plus there is less restriction on people that can view the J-20 prototype. They are there (the eyewitnesses) on the fenceline, looking and some even have cameras of one sort or another.
Here are two images of the Central Military Commission’s aircraft that they used to fly to Chengdu to view the J-20 prototypes. And also an image of what the aircraft is said to look like. 🙂
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