It must be possible to determine the dynamic pressure from an array of static pressure ports distributed over the forward ~third of an aircraft. You have to calibrate the measurement for aircraft attitude, Mach number and curved flight and if you lose you computer you're as helpless as those pilots in Air France 447 over the South Atlantic two years ago.If you're talking about the massive one air data probe, that will only present on initial prototypes and test aircraft. That massive thing and the computers behind it takes up the space where a radar would sit as well.
If you're talking about the smaller tubes further down the nose, they will likely be on the production aircraft. Production F-22 and 35 have pitot tubes too.
Hey guys, why haven't many of you rushed to digest the piece I had posted days ago? That would have told you so many things about the stages at which the J-20 and J-10 have been! You would not have had to guesstimate like bunch of blind people trying to figure out how an elephant is like by touching and groping it all the places...
I know I know, we just like the fun of theorizing, arguing, debating, and of playing aircraft engineers, disgners, analysts, etc. etc.
Hehe, I think the above should go to Keypublishing, BR, and their likes. In that case, I should add:
Learn some Chinese, guys! If by any chance China won't implode for another 10 years, you may find your Chinese helpful when you want to make some easy Yuan in that commie land.
Hey guys, why haven't many of you rushed to digest the piece I had posted days ago? That would have told you so many things about the stages at which the J-20 and J-10 have been! You would not have had to guesstimate like bunch of blind people trying to figure out how an elephant is like by touching and groping it all the places...
Or yano...all the people who can translate are really freakin busy.
