Chengdu next gen combat aircraft (?J-36) thread

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Are we certain this is real? The camera conveniently loses focus right as the plane shows its rear. Is this confirmed by credible people?
Edit: just saw it was posted by some other people. Credibility went up!

It was posted by @Blitzo, as well as and also Adorable Whale on Weibo. So yes, I think this is indeed real.

Looks pretty massive up close. Honestly never thought of it being this big before.

 

[talonn]

Are we certain this is real? The camera conveniently loses focus right as the plane shows its rear. Is this confirmed by credible people?
Edit: just saw it was posted by some other people. Credibility went up!

That's very impressive cg if it's fake. I am not certain myself

 

[CaribouTruth]

Curse the focusing algorithm on whatever phone they were using to film this! But I reckon it wouldn't have been posted if it showed a clear view of the nozzles anyways.

 

[Blitzo]

Localizing it is pretty straight forward, as expected it's just the highway next to the CAC factory/airfield.

Yellow is direction of the aircraft on approach, red is the direction of the car filming.

 

[Wrought]

Someone is going to be drinking tea before end of day.

 

[Alfa_Particle]

If i had to choose between yaw tvc or roll+pitch tvc

Only kids choose.

Just straight-up have both via FIVN (fluidic thrust vectoring).

 

[talonn]

Was that today's flight test? So it's 5th test as far as publicly known/recorded?

 

[CaribouTruth]

Was that today's flight test? So it's 5th test as far as publicly known/recorded?

Probably an older video that they'd held off on posting?
Now that the location is known, you could estimate the time of day and try to match it with previous known flights.

 

[Ringsword]

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I so hope it's real-as one poster said,"alot of flexing at this time"-love it-If I were there on that highway and had my very young son and nephews in my car,they would say ,"An Imperial Star Destroyer is landing daddy/uncle !!!!"And I'll be fricking speechless for at least a minute-Well done PLA/CAC!!!!

 

[CaribouTruth]

Looks like it can produce more than enough lift at low speeds, the approach for landing is very neutral, just like the last time we saw it land during sunset. Positive signs for low speed maneuverability.