J-20... The New Generation Fighter III

[Deino]

Is this photo from yesterday or today !??

Deino

 

[escobar]

he is coming

 

[siegecrossbow]

Is this photo from yesterday or today !??

Deino

Today. Note how there are there people standing on the wings and the airbrake is open.

 

[Deino]

Thanks ... but now that hangar is empty !!

Deino

 

[Quickie]

New photo of the new prototype.

The stabilizers look a bit different. It could be just the angle of the picture, or maybe not?

 

[Engineer]

Hehe, I am surprised that you guys could have forgotten this brilliant one:

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Oh, I remember that one. That picture was made to troll, and a bunch of people took the bait. lol!

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could also be the 2002 prototype static test airframe.

This is actually an impossibility. Static test airframes don't have nice surface finish. Here is JH-7 static test airframe:

 

[escobar]

Said to be J-20 model in CAC building

 

[Deino]

Here are two more with the people working on (or "in") it !

Deino

 

[kyanges]

It's like the plane just gets longer and longer every time I see it, lol. I wonder if the roundel will be changed on all following fighters too, or if it's only a one-off design. I know it's the PLA insignia, but the PLAAF has always used a different one up till now. I thought it was hilarious when some discredited early J-20 photos based on the similarity between this lone star and the Soviet roundel.

EDIT:
Oooh, what's that hatch/panel they opened up? And that's interesting. The J-20 model is so different from what's flying now.

 

[plawolf]

It's like the plane just gets longer and longer every time I see it, lol. I wonder if the roundel will be changed on all following fighters too, or if it's only a one-off design. I know it's the PLA insignia, but the PLAAF has always used a different one up till now. I thought it was hilarious when some discredited early J-20 photos based on the similarity between this lone star and the Soviet roundel.

EDIT:
Oooh, what's that hatch/panel they opened up? And that's interesting. The J-20 model is so different from what's flying now.

That model looks like a wind tunnel model.

That was probably the original J20 design, and it evolved from there into what we see flying today.

I wonder if people will say the same thing about the production model in a few years time compared to 2001.