The ones with the KH31s are confirmed P.S. photos.
J-20... The New Generation Fighter III
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Perhaps, but if it didn't, it wouldn't require that many grounds crew members to install them, as evidently on the picture there. Maybe it's a modified KH31Ps built solely to fit into the J-20s weapons bay.
It's such a bad PS I'm not sure if it's even worth applying a backstory to make sense of it.
Hehe I think we should replace confirmed with "terrible"
No, on top of high rise apartments to the northwest of 132.
Quickie
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Wow, this is not a really right place to test a top secret plane. No wonder the 2001 was shifted out and never heard off since then.
Quickie, its not top secret when the first flight is during the visit of Sec Def Gates, sorry, but it just isn't, and with the F-60 riding around on the back of a flatbed, well somebody is trying to sell airplanes. I wonder how 01 is doing, it seems that things have slowed down on testing/production of further prototypes, I have to wonder if flight tests in the high alpha regime are going well, time will tell I suppose but it would be nice to have a little bit of insight in the process?
Quickie
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I meant top secret as in the other aspects like the progress of weapons integration, the more critical part of the flight testing whose results they may want to keep a secret, and even the overall progress of the prototype development. This all could be a reason why the testing of the 2001 was moved to a location less exposed to prying eyes.
Schumacher
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Quikie, I was just pulling your chain a little, of course the slow/flight stall/post stall regime is something that you would do at altitude, and I am quite sure it is being video documented by the chase aircraft, and with just two prototypes it is obviously something you want to ease into, and no you don't want any witnesses if things don't go as planned. I am supposing those two chutes will also serve as spin chutes just in case she doesn't want to come out of a "nasty"! I suppose that if things go according to plan, we may see the release of some of that footage, but for now it will indeed be top secret and closely analyzed by the engineers, for any hints of how she really flys and if any FBW tweaks are needed? Likely, but not absolute. Engineer? will those chutes also serve as spin chutes?
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