The forward number does look a little slanted. I do not know if that is lighting or what, but the tail number is clearer when you make it larger. Let me see if I can find an even higher res picture.
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J-15 carrier fighter thread
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Yep, it does look like 107 to me...
Nothing wrong with the way the PLAN is going about their CV programme. Nothing at all in my opinion. It does seem slow at times. However so is the USN!
USN Naval aviators are of course trained ashore first before they ever attempt to land aboard ship. This takes approximately two years. Then an additional two & one half years learning to fly an Hornet, Hawkeye, Growler or a SH-60. Then once successfully completed the pilot will be assigned a Fleet squadron.
This is without doubt J-15 101
This gentlemen is what a pilots airplane looks like, lots of funky kool nacelles hanging off the aft fuselage, mid wing-center of lift very near the center of gravity, lots of stabilator, rudder, and wing, canards to generate vortex lift, and enough horsepower to make her say Howdy, it really does NOT get "much" better than this, this is as of tonight, the premier carrier aircraft in the world today, and yes I like F-18s, and Mig 29ks, and even the F-35C, but the brat says this is a great overwater airplane, lots of visibility, maneuverability, and just plain old "sexy baby looks", yes all fighter aircraft are female, of course, treat them like ladies and show due respect, and live a long and happy life!
Oh, and the Shark, oh baby, almost as kool as the Jolly Roger on the F-14, almost!
Oh, and I can hear that TOP GUN music in the background when we first see the F-5s masquerading as Migs, "do do dut, do, do, dut, HighWay to the DANGER ZONE, take ya right into the DAAANGER ZOOOOONE!"
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very nice young man! and what lovely ladies they are, like I said, she even looks great in primer! and I am going to maintain that these are the LRIP aircraft, not prototypes in the true sense, but variants on the basic Flanker aircraft, but I do realize that as carrier aircraft with the hook etc, they are major variants in the sense that lots did change!
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