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There's lots of in-flight footage here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8869512750983413810
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8869512750983413810
harrier said:One thing that puzzles me about the J-10 is just how unstable it is. The wing looks too far aft to have much destabilising effect, so presumably the canard is used to move the centre of lift forward. This probably means that the aircraft is only slightly unstable, or neutrally so, meaning its supersonic BVR performance will suffer in comparison to, say, Typhoon. On the latter the wing centre of lift is forward of the CG, with the canard trimming nose down in subsonic flight but allowing greater agility supersonically with the centre of pressure moved aft.
Any pics of the J-10 in cruising flight where canard position can be seen? Take-off /landing/AAR shots mean the canard is moving for control so its 'steady state' trim position is hard to determine.
Sentinel Chicken said:I'm wondering if perhaps the J-10 is more a strike fighter than an air superiority fighter with that role going to the Flankers. I'm presuming that increased stability at high speeds would be ideal for a strike platform?
Tam said:...Its confirmed you have something indirectly to do with this!
Tam said:Congratulations in the publishing of your article. Too bad I can't read German to appreciate it.
harrier said:Great article! I started to blunder through the original with my poor German skills, but also cheated with Google:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fliegerrevue.de%2Ffr_heft.asp%3FPG%3D147%26AID%3D%252018436&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
which can help others too.
Thanks for posting that, Andreas. I probably know more about the details of the J-10 now than I thought was ever possible! Now when I look at various builds of the Trumpeter kit, I spot all those little variations that weren't covered in it.Deino said:Thanks a lot for Your kind words ... here's another pre-view of "more-to-come" from our allmost famous "secret-projects"-artist ! ;D
Sentinel Chicken said:Thanks for posting that, Andreas. I probably know more about the details of the J-10 now than I thought was ever possible! Now when I look at various builds of the Trumpeter kit, I spot all those little variations that weren't covered in it.Deino said:Thanks a lot for Your kind words ... here's another pre-view of "more-to-come" from our allmost famous "secret-projects"-artist ! ;D
The level of detail Andreas has asked for in my illustrations and the technical accuracy will please just the most die-hard of techno-wonks. We went down the locations and types of aerials on the various developmental variants and even camouflage patterns!
Can't wait to see the Flieger Revue article, even though I can't understand a lick of German. Or the later English articles that will have an additional seven J-10 profiles. I'm working on a print that features several of the J-10s together and the print samples I've had done so far have come out very nicely so I'm sure these will look fine in print.
Tam said:Beautiful piece of work I got to say. I am very impressed with the quality. Is there more pics that was published?