So there were more than the 15 flights I logged !??
J-20 Flight-log (until 19 June):
1. 11. January – 12:50 to 13:08 (18 minutes)
2. 17. April – 16:25 to 17:50 (1 hour 25 minutes)
3. 5. May – 15:30 to 16:24 (55 minutes) – first flight with landing gear up
4. 5. May – 17:50 to 18:47 PM (57 minutes)
5. 12. May – ? minutes
6. 14. May – ?? to 14:20 (? minutes)
7. 14. May – 16:28 to 17:18 (50 minutes)
8. 24. May – 15:16 to 16:16 (60 minutes)
9. 1. June – ? minutes
10. 2. June – ? minutes … sadly no additional info !
11. 17. June – about 30 min … maybe with new engine !
12. 17. June – about 60 min
13. 18. June – about 60 min
14. 18. June – about 60 min
15. 18. June – about 40 min
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Besides that – and really no offence !! – does anyone know how many flights in comparison the T-50 had at the same time after its first flight (about 4 months) ??
Not 100% sure (but fromthe SDF) the first T-50 had already logged 39 test flights when the second one was ready and that was 15 months after the 1st one (?).
So CAC has now 15 flights within 7 months …
Deino
…By the way, The FC-1 / JF 17 was spotted flying with SD-10A MRAAM
Yeppp se the PAF-tread from post 21 on
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109700
Deino
Today J20 flew 3 times.
2 flights happened in day time, lasted abt one hour each
Third flight ran into night time,abt 40 mins
Impressive ! …. and it landed back at CAC ?? ;)(or in Xian ??:p)
Besides that – and really no offence !! – does anyone know how many flights in comparison the T-50 had at the same time after its first flight (about 4 months) ??
Deino
Today J 20 flew twice and it was caught in below image
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And again my usual question: Any additional info available (time, duration ??)
Reportedly there were some strange observations on one nozzle again, which was a bit different … maybe a replacement engine ?!
Deino
Actually I think there are two real photos at the moment showing two J-20 and both were taken within a few moments, while one was standing in the hangar and the other one came back from a taxi-test (of flight) ??
However – as “overscan” said in the Secret-Projects Forum:
The original photo could be genuine or faked, its very difficult to tell. If you left the camera on a tripod and took multiple pics while the J-20 went out of the hangar and back, its fakable.
We need something more to be sure. Multiple pics. Eyewitness accounts. Video would be much more convincing.
Deino
This is IMO most likely a PS-composition of the other two photos … by using the new one, which IMO was taken a bit earlier than the one already posted a few days earlier. As such IMO in the first photo – the one now found – one is sitting in the hangar and the other one is on the taxiway on the left … rolling from left to right in front of the hangar.
Don’t arrest me if it’s true.
Maybe from this kit, even if the airbrake and weapon bays are not shown !?
http://aeroscale.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9217
Deino
Indeed it is, but we’re quite used to seeing SD-10s on J-10s by now. Until now, I don’t think there’s been a pic of the JF-17 with SD-10s?
IIRC the PAF chaps at Farnborough were saying the integration work should have been completed by end of last year or early this year. Not sure when that pic was taken.
Yes … and even more impressive on the new twin-launcher pylons …. besides that even if we’ve seen the PL-12 on the J-10, on operational birds the older PL-11 was more common, whereas the PL-12 was at first sent to the J-8F units.
Reagrding the foto date, as far as I know they were taken last week during the latest J-20 taxi-tests showing the open brake.
Deino
Don’t arrest me if it’s true.
Looks very much like from a scale-model CAD design … and in mind of the lower slot to fit a desk-stand I would say of a small scale !?
Do You know anything of the source ?
Deino
Nice sequence ….
From the previous thread;
Sorry Deino, missed this previously. This is what I could find;
Never mind, but IMO – like Saeed Khan said – this is most likely psed !
If You look closely the colours on the tail esp. around the panther is different. … but anyway thanks.
Deino
Found the picture, never mind. I hope this is not PSed
Fine … at least two confirmed, but the one on the left is IMO a J-10 under tarpaulin.
Deino
Not sure about the belly-bay … but You are correct with the side-bays, they are shaped like a < in front.
Just a question after I received the JF-17-supplement from the latesst AFM yesterday.
Does anyone have a photo of a No. 16 Sqn. bird with its markings (on the tail again ?) ???
We all know the “spiders” from the No. 26 Sqn.. quite well but from the other unit ????
Thanks in advance, Deino
Hu … no-one ??? 🙁