Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator
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kwaigonegin
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when making a statement like this, it would be nice if you include the appropriate source or more data supporting or documenting such an event.
kwaigonegin
Colonel
first pic !!!!!!
great pics... can we confirm that is first flight or just high speed run?
escobar
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successful maiden flight.
AssassinsMace
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Not sure if these are real.
They used a J-11BS as a chase plane from what I've been reading.
They used a J-11BS as a chase plane from what I've been reading.
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Thats just as normal as dirt.
plawolf
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Nice! I expect lovely full sized and crisp pictures when I log back in tomorrow morning. It's too late for me to follow this live, however much I would like, but at least there is hopefully something nice to look forward to tomorrow. Looks like the race is on again! 
Subedei
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Looks like the race is on again!
Wow!!! I'm beginning to re-live that feeling of excited anticipation that we all had leading up to 1-11-2011!!!
You might be right, plawolf, the race may just be on again. But, the race for what?
This suddenly has my head spinning with possibilities.
Perhaps Shenyang's experiences with the J-11 program, utilizing one airframe as the basis for both air force and naval air force platforms, will allow them to offer variations of the J-31 to fulfill both functions (to succeed J-11A/B, J-15, and J-16).
Does this give them an advantage?
Perhaps this was the plan (no pun intended) all along and there really is no actual competition between J-20 and J-31.
Perhaps, then, J-20 is actually THE game changer in Chinese air strategy, a singular platform that will have superior all-around capabilities to any other platform in their inventory (and many others').
In this case, Chengdu, then not only develops China's first completely indigenous fighter airframe, but also, and simultaneously, its ultimate indigenous combat airframe (for now).
If so, then which platform is it (J-20) analogous to in the USAF inventory, the F-22, or the F-35?
If my suppositions have any merit, they'd suggest that the Chinese combat aviation industry is taking a very interesting approach to program development, one that recapitulates the approach of Shao-Lin strength development. That is, to develop strength simultaneously from the extremes in, and from the center out. In my interpretation, the Flanker to J-31 is the center out component, and the J-10 -J-20 is the extremes in component. Or, is it the other way around?
Okay, I've had my fun!
Ain't this all exciting?
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