J-20 5th Generation Fighter VII
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guys, I had the opportunity to visit the CAC theme park (where there's a model of the prototype J-20 on display) in Chengdu today. And the result is...that I can't help but coming here to tell (Excuse me
) you that: No matter how many photos or videos I'd viewed of that plane, I could never have really felt as I have today, standing in front of the real thing (at least size-wise), how huge and how long this airplane is!it's overwhelming, like a roof with a protruding balcony where nests a pilot, a man---no, it's so far out there, that must be the neighbor's balcony!
It's majestic, exactly because this rather large and flat, 'simple and clumsy' (especially compared with the curvy and slender J10C nearby) 'structure' could fly, at least if not fly like a passenger jet (one can very easily picture that too, especially when scanning its back). Though looking at it one might had a hard time imagining it gliding and soaring into the sky, and those wonderful pictures from the airshow looked now so unreal, and the aerobotic maneuvers in retrospect left me to wonder (and i was then unsatisfied with the somewhat banal and so-called "reserved" performances), as if they were of another plane, or more accurately, an RC plane.
I always wish J20 could land on China's aircraft carriers and I still do, but after this eyewitness experience, I can only imagine or I can't imagine a mountain or pyramid landing on the deck of a ship, or maybe I just can't conceive how big an AC could be either. And the lengthy and wide body should make the inner fitting work, i.e. the cables and pipes very relaxed, hence the tidy lines in the weapon bay.
Modern fighter jets are indeed marvels of technology, especially the aero engine because of what it enables. And it should make us all the more appreciate our hero J-20 here, a worthy specimen of that marvel, a sky fortress, and let us wait for its very own and final 'enabler'.
guys, I had the opportunity to visit the CAC theme park (where there's a model of the prototype J-20 on display) in Chengdu today. And the result is...that I can't help but coming here to tell (Excuse me
it's overwhelming, like a roof with a protruding balcony where nests a pilot, a man---no, it's so far out there, that must be the neighbor's balcony!
It's majestic, exactly because this rather large and flat, 'simple and clumsy' (especially compared with the curvy and slender J10C nearby) 'structure' could fly, at least if not fly like a passenger jet (one can very easily picture that too, especially when scanning its back). Though looking at it one might had a hard time imagining it gliding and soaring into the sky, and those wonderful pictures from the airshow looked now so unreal, and the aerobotic maneuvers in retrospect left me to wonder (and i was then unsatisfied with the somewhat banal and so-called "reserved" performances), as if they were of another plane, or more accurately, an RC plane.
I always wish J20 could land on China's aircraft carriers and I still do, but after this eyewitness experience, I can only imagine or I can't imagine a mountain or pyramid landing on the deck of a ship, or maybe I just can't conceive how big an AC could be either. And the lengthy and wide body should make the inner fitting work, i.e. the cables and pipes very relaxed, hence the tidy lines in the weapon bay.
Modern fighter jets are indeed marvels of technology, especially the aero engine because of what it enables. And it should make us all the more appreciate our hero J-20 here, a worthy specimen of that marvel, a sky fortress, and let us wait for its very own and final 'enabler'.
Where are the pictures?
@dandelion clock this, it's criminal not to also post pictures.
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