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http://www.knaapo.ru/rus/gallery/events/combat/su-35/su-35s.wbp
all 31 hi-res photos in one archive
http://yadi.sk/d/1Riehqy514z1E
this one
people there just remember well the fate of Su-35-4, so none at the ‘ground level’ wants to push the date to the left even being under hard pressure from top management
several initially scheduled November first flight windows already passed on so far
still highly optimistic regarding December though
Also any news on 50-1 with high angle flying.
at least today 50-1 was flying. along with 50-2
all fleet is flying, in short
2 weeks left if they keep to the schedule sukhoi has been quoting.
…and none have changed plans since then
The General Designer of the Project 129 engine
‘second-stage’ engine for PAK FA is not Izdeliye 129, but Izdeliye 30
Apparently both ’52’ & ’53’ were active on November 1st
apparently not only on this date, recently, at least 50-3
Hi Flateric, are you saying that the current PAK DA is a lot more interesting than the miniblackjack?
Once more.
From initial 47 variants studied in 2009, Tupolev dropped all but four, then two left – supersonic and subsonic. Subsonic won.
Current subsonic BWB PAK DA finalist is boring, that caused DoD acquisition tzsar Rogozin to twit that he “doesn’t want to PAK DA be a copy of B-2” – apparently this did happen after he saw final iteration shown by Tupolev early summer.
Supersonic variant (that didn’t go) was a very radical machine, aesthetically appealing bird. If you ever see her drawings in open media, you will understand where it roots came from.
nope. Supersonic PAK DA finalist – dropped in favor of subsonic variant – was much more interesting and futuristic looking bird than stealthised Blackjack.
I don’t think Russia will take that approach with PAK DA tho. Different aircraft for different requirements…
that’s exactly what we did with PAK DA – subsonic flying wing NGLRSki
‘Kompleksny Naturny Stend’
well, some translate it as Advanced Comprehensive Testbed or Complex Comprehensive Testbed
literally an 1:1 non-flyable T-50 (that adopted, for example, substandard fuselage panels that didn’t pass quality check) that serves as guinea pig
reportedly currently used for various ground tests at GkNIPAS at Faustovo (weapons, live fire etc.)
Nobody outside of Mikoyan has as far as I know. Can’t find the source at the moment but I am positive that I read about the main bay being covered by a static panel, bolted shut to the airframe. They never proceeded with fitting it with the intended doors, even though the bay itself was in fact there.
Aaz that worked at MiG at these interesting times says that all variants of MRAAM carriage were conformal for 1.44 and 1.42. At least there was no any projected space for dedicated WB at 1.44.
1.42 longitudinal cross-section though shows that there was a plenty of volume for WB. Hope one day we will know for sure.
Berkut says of 50-KNS
it was said already that 50-4 will fly nearest two months
and don’t expect many stunning photos from weapon tests…
so far meet T-50 HMDS
today