I suppose for safety during trails, just in case of engine failure or landing gear failure, they can still attempt a glide land.
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I suppose for safety during trails, just in case of engine failure or landing gear failure, they can still attempt a glide land.
Hehe, I think by "reality" you meant "facts", as reality to different people can be totally different. If you read Chinese and have read some of the stuff some Chinese netizens have dished out, you'd find yourself in a reality quite justifying the "conjured up scenarios"... You may substitute such Chinese stuff with the equally or more obnoxious and/or ridiculous Bharat Rakshak stuff if you don't read Chinese...
The ubiquitous preposterousness aside, I, a Chinese living in China, think such accelerated development process of the J-20 and the to-be-revealed domestic aircraftcarriers is necessary. And the six-or-more-J-20-protorypes rumor is believable.
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Agreed (based on my more than twenty years of working with and living among the American people and my understanding of the human species in general).
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To clarify my position, I never claimed that multiple prototypes is not necessary, only that I do not think this would be the case this early on in the flight test program.
The thought of getting aboard a friend's Cessna makes me drool, hehe... You know what, in the mid-90's, my dream (it was more of a plan then) was to get a professorship in a couple of years, and then buy myself a ranch, and then get me a Masquito M80 kit to build (I wish they had succeded in that endeavor. What a cute little helo!)... Ah, those worry-free years...
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Hehe, I know that. My point was in the last sentence. My bad, I sometimes tend to throw in more than necessary in replying...
Is there a picture? I see only a large blank space, even after refreshing twice. A link would be nice, for me to have a look see.
Thats right Letz, during initial test flights landing gear are often left down for the reasons you mentioned, plus aircraft have more drag, which serves as a crude speed brake. The advantage is you can carry more power to keep electrical power levels up and airspeeds down, and during early flight testing of a prototype the usual protocol is to explore the low speed regime to kind of get a feel for the flight characteristics, slow flight and even stalls or spins, most prototypes are equipped with a spin chute to be deployed if directional control is lost. Eng is probably right about the number of prototypes player, but my observation of J-20 is they are flying it a lot, and the flight test regime appears to have been accelerated from what we would normally see in the West.
Brat, that reminds me of a comment by that same person who insisted that there were at least six J-20's. He said that the fact that we saw, after so many months of tests, again and again the J-20 leaving its landing gears down and its braking chute pod (what do you call that thing?) open during flight indicates that there have been newer J-20's joining the tests. For only new ones need the extra caution for their initial tests.
Well player a lot of us had dreams, and then we grew up, there are still lots of cool little Helo's, if you get back over around the end of July or the first of August they have the EAA fly-in at Oshkosh Wisconsin, I'm about due for a trip back. A few years ago they had a mig-15 and mig-17 there with the afterburner, along with an F-86 so those guys played around a little. Thats where I was able to see the F-22 up close and personal and what a gorgeous bird it is, shame the politicians succeeded in killing a great airplane to promote an also ran, I was a little skeptical about the J-20 until the eng set me straight, and I love the Pak Fa, in fact if you're wondering what to get me for Christmas next year? I'd take any one of the three.
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