I don’t get it..
Why couldn’t they design the MLG doors to swing out from top not like we see here below and down?
I think it’s more of a integrated maintenance door just for prototype
so cockpit details are still classified:cool:
hmm, are you sure? to me it looks angled…
ahhh…. sorry mate… thought you are talking about wing tip cuts
I’m sure it’s angled trailing edge….and my early calculation showed the angle is around 10.5degree
My prediction drawing’s here 😀![]()
Damn, from above photos it seems that the wing trailing edge is really angled, am I right guys? The J-20 looks really cool…
nope looks like no angled cut
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looks much smaller from this angle…
and very looong LEX
A B737 arrived at CF, today might be the day…
Very high and canted wing (losing effective lift, God knows why chinese did it), boxy fuselage, crude fuselage topology conventional delta with relative big wing area, canards, close engine assembling, limiting complex compossed manouvres-combinations for it TVC system
vs
Blended wing, generating full lift, fuselage heavily based on lift body concept, complex surface topology, Levcons, having the balls to stuff the bomb bay at the same level of the wing…
Nope, the J-20 is based on old concepts, this plane is somewhat outdated
You are being driven by appareances, beware, this plane is already painted and looking nice, as the Yf-22 or the x-35 were….
Hint:
The f-35 can’t do any kind of aerobatics yet….unlike the T-50
If you would call Canards+LERX+Trapezoidal wing (not Delta) configuration using Vortex lift theory Convensional… OK… how do you explain the SU-27 ass on T-50 then…:D
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weather is pretty good, first flight might be on today!
Is this 2002 or 2001 with new engines?:confused:


Bear in mind that they’re probably bigger than they look, since there is no diverter gap.
Phaid: the nozzle turkey feathers look wrong for the engines to be D-30F6s, most likely it is powered by an AL-31F variant. Before there were good pictures available I did admittedly consider that possibility too though.
it uses DSI …. that’s why it has no diverter gap…:D
So it is more like a twin-engine f-35 then.
I’d say F/B-22/23…:D
The YF-23 had a far larger main bay than YF-22 (and F-22). The only problem was the sidewinder bay which is part of ther reason the F-23 had a longer fuselage.
I thought the sidewinder bay never appeared on the aircraft…
In my opinion an increadably simple landing gear housing doors for a fifth gen. aircraft. Its getting clear how they created the bird in such a short time! Can be dangerous in an emergency situation or full load but sure they already knows it.
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1. Is this possibly an integrated maintenance door? May be this would explain the size…
2. Judging for the photo this door can be shut once the main landing gears are fully extended. It might be left open only for taxi test purposes…
3. OR…Would it help yaw stabilization at approach?