Shenyang FC-31 / J-31 Fighter Demonstrator

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ladioussupp

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But strictly biologically spoken what's the true name of that "Falcon" or what would be the best fitting translated name of the bird ??

Thanks in advance,
Deino

According to Baidu pedia, it is known as a species of falco family. Specifically, "Falco rusticolus" or "Gyr-falcon" in common English.

This raptor lives around Eastern North area of China mainland, where Sheng-yang city and SAC located. So I guess this is why SAC uses Gyr-falcon as the name of project 310. :p
 

vesicles

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But strictly biologically spoken what's the true name of that "Falcon" or what would be the best fitting translated name of the bird ??

Thanks in advance,
Deino

Shen Fei sounds like a good name to use for J-31. Might as well use it, accidental name or not. :)


I thought "Shen Fei" is the Chinese way of abbreviating Shen Yang Aircraft Corp. (SAC) or whatever the official name of the company is...
 

Air Force Brat

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Here's some more Zhuhai pics. No sting and yes, one piece canopy. Since slight diffrences probably not something to rely on real information.

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Honey? I just bought a new model to hang in the bedroom over my dresser! Where do I sign up? Is that guy back there On Wing Lo? Something my Dad used to call me. LOL
 

Air Force Brat

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If I come from Lilyput, I really want to sit in this sweet model.

Thats what my first thought was as well, beautifull model, and if they send me one, I will hang it in my house, and no my house isn't that big, LOL.'

I agree steel, that is one sweet looking airframe, and a form model doesn't have all the lines and irregularities that spoil the lines of a real aircraft, I would love to see this chick in the blue smoke, a couple of fellas are having at it on the J-20 thread about the J-31 wing area etc. Although she is obviously smaller than the Raptor, she definetely has enough wing to do the job, and if she gets the powerplants that are envisioned she will be quite an A2A bird IMHO. It is always nice to have a little wind tunnel vid just to be able to get a proper picture of airflow, particularly as AOA is increased past 20 degrees or so, this would seem to be a throwback in terms of GW, and that in and of itself will bring performance up, the poor little thunder hogg has lots of pop, but the weight has gone past design limits. In any respect Shenyang looks to have a winner on its hand, and I say this with all due respect to the Chengdu crowd.
 
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MiG-29

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Thats what my first thought was as well, beautifull model, and if they send me one, I will hang it in my house, and no my house isn't that big, LOL.'

I agree steel, that is one sweet looking airframe, and a form model doesn't have all the lines and irregularities that spoil the lines of a real aircraft, I would love to see this chick in the blue smoke, a couple of fellas are having at it on the J-20 thread about the J-31 wing area etc. Although she is obviously smaller than the Raptor, she definetely has enough wing to do the job, and if she gets the powerplants that are envisioned she will be quite an A2A bird IMHO. It is always nice to have a little wind tunnel vid just to be able to get a proper picture of airflow, particularly as AOA is increased past 20 degrees or so, this would seem to be a throwback in terms of GW, and that in and of itself will bring performance up, the poor little thunder hogg has lots of pop, but the weight has gone past design limits. In any respect Shenyang looks to have a winner on its hand, and I say this with all due respect to the Chengdu crowd.
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in my opinion J-31 has a wing closer to F-35A than F-22 and smaller than F-35C
 
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luhai

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Nah, probably just a mistake by JDW, read the same thing a few weeks ago on another site. For those who aren't clear about this, Shen Fei is short for Shen Yang Fei Ji Gong Si, or Shenyang Aircraft Corporation(SAC). Similarly, Cheng Fei is short for Cheng Du Fei Ji Gong Si, or Chengdu Aircraft Corporation(CAC)

Yes, and probably JDW is likely using google translate of forum post or news in Chinese. Mistake in the translator probably leads to JDW calling the aircraft Shen Fei. Which is then calls question about quality of coverage of Chinese military affairs in western trade magazines. It seems they can't even break the language barrier even when all these open source information are available.
 

Player99

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Yes, and probably JDW is likely using google translate of forum post or news in Chinese. Mistake in the translator probably leads to JDW calling the aircraft Shen Fei. Which is then calls question about quality of coverage of Chinese military affairs in western trade magazines. It seems they can't even break the language barrier even when all these open source information are available.

Language barrier is a serious problem for alll Westners who have some interest in China or China-related things. If they read Chinese, we probably won't hear anything like "not transparent" or real stupid remarks such as "the Chinese people are slaves to their government and they dare not say anything in the open like in our democracy"... And this kind of remarks I actually picked up all from non-Western forums, which I think ya all know who I'm referring to. :D

On the other hand, I think it's good that most non-Chinese can't read Chinese. For we also have stupid XXXXX on military forums, reeking similar ignorance, idiocy, and stupidity...
 
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