Thanks for posting that pic, Mr. J-20. If you look @ the pic below, as team PAK-FA crowd around ’52’ (choose the nearest guy for your pic angle)- the LEVCON is deflected at the same angle (aligned with the particular step on the ladder), and it’s pretty clear that ‘thing’ in your pic- is not the compressor.

The location of that device (whatever it is), is indicated by those two ‘dirty’ bars (in all likelihood they’re caused by that device):

http://maks.sukhoi.ru/media/photo/maks2011/maks2011dm2_065.jpg

I think Irkut is the best plant in Russia. It has half the employees of Knaapo.

Irkut is a huge Russian success story, it’s order book for Su-30MKX is bursting @ the seams, it’s about to ink the ‘Super-30’ contract- which will not doubt become available to all Irkut origin machines and MC-21 pre-orders stacking up (iIrc, its 1st forray into the international civil mkt). Plant expansion and large-scale capital investment is an inevitability. Not bad at all.

Ignore the ‘Thread Defecator’.

http://www.janes.com/products/janes/defence-security-report.aspx?ID=1065930289&channel=defence

http://www.defenseworld.net/go/defensenews.jsp?id=5942&h=RTSC%20&%20Irkut%20Signed%20Contract%20for%20MC-21%20Airliner

Re: Su-30SM, it will also have an improved ‘Bars’ with a new array- the same as the one destined for the IAF’s ‘Super 30’ Stage 1 upgrade (Stage 2 will incorporate an AESA bearing commonality with the FGFA’s).

original photo

I stand corrected 😉

How come there is not good photo of the front intake from MAKS2011? This has got to be somewhere. Look at the videos of it rolling and turning on the runway. Someone could have zoomed in with a decent lens. ..

Ya see Wanderlei, I had this fantastic dream…it was an unusually hot day for August, with the Sun blazing down from a clear blue sky and thinly clad gorgeous babes pestering me to sample their ice-cream, and right in front of me, merely yards away, passed the most stunningly awesome warplane yet conceived by man…BUT WAIT!!!:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWxvJEwjVCc

’52’ looks friggin’ awesome in 1080p, judging by how close some people get they should have been blasting away with their D-SLRs!! Do I have to do everything myself??!!:mad: ‘Make my day’ ’53’ & ’54’!!:cool:

‘Alexander Nevsky‘ c/o Gradient:

‘Take-off.ru’s’ MAKS 2011 show reports (Russian only):

http://www.take-off.ru/gazetamaks2011

Pre-show rehearsals 11/08/11:

MAKS 2011 flight programme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-cvhVIQJAI&feature=player_embedded#!

Just a minor interjection to keep the thread relevant:

…OK, seconds out…