Shenyang / Chengdu "6th Gen" Aircraft - News and Analysis

Avimimus said:
That makes a lot of sense - explains why there is a very bright light on one side (makes it easier to figure out the orientation - i.e. that it isn't flying upside down).
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Look closely, both wings have formation lights. The one on the right wing is obscured during the roll.
 
flateric said:
Well. Then ...quite an impressive leap in flight envelope just in few flights.
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I think its third flight had already began making some turns a month or so ago, and this would be its fifth flight. Chances are it's been expanding the flight envelope every flight but we just haven't seen every maneuver.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/1jdkghq/first_impressions_of_j36s_maneuverability_video
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/1jdkghq/first_impressions_of_j36s_maneuverability_video/
 
siegecrossbow said:
Look closely, both wings have formation lights. The one on the right wing is obscured during the roll.
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Yeah, I mean jeez at this stage there are so many flights of J-36 (and J-XDS as well) that the threshold for actually arguing a video is outright fake or CGI (as opposed to say, an upscaled AI image, which is somewhat common due to the normalization of such software) should be very high.


If one thinks it is odd that there is only one formation light, the idea that the whole video is outright not real seems like a heck of a leap in logic as opposed to say... a formation light happening to be obscured as the aircraft was turning?
 
flateric said:
Well. Then ...quite an impressive leap in flight envelope just in few flights.
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Looking like it. Which makes me wonder if this is a pre-production prototype rather than a demonstrator (and if the basic flight control logic and aerodynamics have already been validated years ago).
 
Has anyone done some CFD on the basic shape to try to estimate the L/D ratios? Of course, without knowing the airfoil shape such information would be very approximate. It'd be quite interesting though.
 
I don't know why anyone is shocked by it's ability to turn sharply. It has large wing and it's flying slowly. I would expect that with such a large wing. It looks just like an F-35C or an F-22 in the pattern to me.
 

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