FOURTH AND FIFTH PROTOTYPES DID THEIR FIRST FLIGHTS AT KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR!

Moscow. 01.04.2012. ITAR-TASS reported. -Today, the airfield of Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft proizvodstvennnogo association made its first flight on the fourth and fifth flight instances of fifth generation fighter aircraft, developed by the PAK FA program. Aircraft flown by the pilots and the Hero of Russia S.Bogdan T.Artsebarsky. During the flight had been achieved a record for an aircraft of this type of height and speed.

Show must go on 😀

I think a single piece display is dangerous for a cockpit in that if it got broken the pilot would essentially lose all the graphic information.
Multiple displays can provide some level of redundancy.

Yes such as if the pilot get injured from the right hand, how will the pilot command the aircraft, but in my opinion if an pilot injures in an aircraft it doesn’t take such minor wounds and if an MFD of the aircraft broken because of an air strike, you can’t go home safely again as well 😉

Single piece large russian/belarussian touchscreen MFDs were shown at the last MILEX show in Minsk. Russian or American doesn’t matter. All these screens are made in Taiwan 🙂

Your summary tells the reality as well 🙂 I found this picture at an indian forum, says first pics of “Super 30” upgraded MKI cockpit,courtesy Irkut at WAFF.

http://www.mycity-military.com/imgs2/141563_63478164_su35spitcabina.jpg

All touch screen, large displays,Giant touch panel on the right side.

Perhaps the 51 and 53 could get some work(re-design) on its W-bay doors for further trials, like weapons launch trials.. or is this too early for Pak-Fa?

For many times I remember Mr. Pogosyan decared that the first prorotypes are not designed for the weapons trials. But according the Mr. Zelin the prototype which is collected in the factory is combat capable, so probably state tests may be conducted with this bird 😉

what is the suprise?

Well, i think Flateric mentioned first time he brought the “real surprise” up , that it’s not T-50.
PS: I just looked at his posts back and he said it’s not 50-3 nor 50-4, specifically. Hmmm.

I was thinking then it has to be that UCAV that was suposed to fly in 2011.

It is i guess a possibility that this surprise might have to do with T-50 afterall (something Sukhoi worked on privately, an export single or two seater brought early in the game to aggresively market/present it abroad? That would be quite jawdropping if true)

Still i think this surprise it’s the UCAV , with a small chance of a T-50 derivative, and an even smaller chance of something else.

Maybe its an unmanned T-50 😉

And maybe we can write some scenarious;

T 50-4 would fly before 2012
The so called “suprise” would fly before 2012 too,

T 50-4 didn’t fly yet
The so called “suprise” didn’t fly too,

So in my opinion there is a connection between the T 50-4 and the so called “suprise” and the so called “suprise” should be a T-50 variant. Hope in the nearest time the show starts again and the new bird displays some unique capabilities (as flateric called real show will start before 2012!):cool: