J-20... The New Generation Fighter III
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Today. Note how there are there people standing on the wings and the airbrake is open.
Quickie
Colonel
New photo of the new prototype.
The stabilizers look a bit different. It could be just the angle of the picture, or maybe not?
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Engineer
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Oh, I remember that one. That picture was made to troll, and a bunch of people took the bait. lol!
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This is actually an impossibility. Static test airframes don't have nice surface finish. Here is JH-7 static test airframe:
It's like the plane just gets longer and longer every time I see it, lol. I wonder if the roundel will be changed on all following fighters too, or if it's only a one-off design. I know it's the PLA insignia, but the PLAAF has always used a different one up till now. I thought it was hilarious when some discredited early J-20 photos based on the similarity between this lone star and the Soviet roundel.
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Oooh, what's that hatch/panel they opened up? And that's interesting. The J-20 model is so different from what's flying now.
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Oooh, what's that hatch/panel they opened up? And that's interesting. The J-20 model is so different from what's flying now.
plawolf
Lieutenant General
That model looks like a wind tunnel model.
That was probably the original J20 design, and it evolved from there into what we see flying today.
I wonder if people will say the same thing about the production model in a few years time compared to 2001.
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