Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36)
- Thread starter Blitzo
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Images are too poor quality at this stage to say whether a serial number is absent or present.
I don’t much like the new design since it looks like they took a bite out of the plane’s butt. But as Yankee hinted at earlier this year the redesigns are results of flight testing, and we must respect science.
Are we sure they are not just evaluating different configs before making final decision? This is my cope anyway
Newer turbofans will be a lot shorter than current ones, leaving enough space. WS19 already shows that you can achieve an overall pressure ratio of 35 with only 8 compressor stages compared to the 12 stages of WS10. The compactness of advanced engines improves much faster than the weight of the engine, probably because of the extreme heat dissipation requirements.
like if they are gonna change the exhausts they should have at least move it further back so it does not look like the entire back section is missing lol. rn it looks so dogshit im coping so hard rn.
I don’t think they moved the exhausts forward. The reason that the original design looked like the engine is further back is because of the lower flaps on the engines jutted out further. The upper petal on the engine is at the same place. Now that 2D TVC nozzles are used, which not only has uniform upper and lower petals the same length but they are both shorter and smaller than the original design so the visual is a lot more jarring.
TLDR — it’s not the engine placement but the geometry of the nozzles.
yea ik i meant that they literally should have moved the new nozzles further back so it looks more aesthetically pleasing XD
You are adding length to the engine inlet. That’s not optimal in an already long aircraft.