Pak-Fa first flight!

[haavarla]

Some new photos from KnAAPO and Shadowname:

http://www.knaapo.com/eng/gallery/aircr ... /index.wbp

http://www.paralay.com/su50.html

[262crew]

I like how they blended the canards into the strake.

[tom d. friedman]

looks like a blatant rip off to me. those russkies are f'ing copy cats yet again!!

[haavarla]

Well well well..
The Second T-50-2 prototype first flight.
The third will feature an pre-production AESA radar for testing.
The T-50-4 will feature a full serial prod AESA radar and full mission suite for tests.

Anyway, without further ranting.. here is the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlf_Ad4- ... re=related

[haavarla]

Exellent shooting by Konstatin.
The latest Flanker at MAKS 2009.
The first batch of these Su-35S are very close enter service.
It has many of the same sub-systems with the Pak-Fa.
Su-35S Engines is rated 2*14.500kgf of thrust.
Pak-Fa prototype engines is rated 2*15.200kgf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfINfouJ ... re=related

And a crazy curved landing by the very same pilot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkI7c5_To9E&NR=1

[262crew]

I love the SU-27 series! Probably the best looking modern aircraft! The T-50 looks bad ass!

[haavarla]

An amazing site covering MAKS 2011 airshow with exellent pics.

Who in their right mind cannot say this aircraft rocks!

http://igor113.livejournal.com/201003.html

[Mike]

looks like a blatant rip off to me. those russkies are f'ing copy cats yet again!!

Yeah, but have you seen the F-22, those darn Americans copied the ailerons from the French. And they ripped off the jet engine from some guy called Whittle!

[haavarla]

@Tom.

Going about your own logic here, the F-22 share lots of the same layout(inspiration?) from the F-15C design layout.
And accidently the F-15C does have lots of similarities of the earlier Mig-25 design.

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[haavarla]

The MAKS 2011 Airshow went about without any major accidents.
Thank god for that.

There was some small incidents with one of the T-50, having to abort Takeoff due to engine failure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFsHqDLM6mk


This is a little reminder of what Display teams risk every day , not the safest enviroment..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-LYyBi ... re=related


A nice vid of the second T-50 doing flight display:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWxvJEwj ... re=related

[haavarla]

Some stunners from Marina Listseva

http://pics.livejournal.com/fotografersha/pic/0062gty5
http://pics.livejournal.com/fotografersha/pic/0063ce1p
http://pics.livejournal.com/fotografersha/pic/0064qgfp
http://pics.livejournal.com/fotografersha/pic/00630sdk

[The Inspector]

Nice! I love the butterscotch/brown/green cammo

[haavarla]

Awsome photo coverage of MAKS 2011
http://www.hesja.pl/XPL/galeria/show/237

My favored must be both the F-15E and Su-34!
The vapors trails are unbelievable

[haavarla]

Check out this vid. Its pulled from a 'Wings of Russia' production, but it entails flights from MAKS 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00zON-uy ... re=related

PS: look at those control surfaces between 01:25-02:00

[haavarla]

Awsome vid from MAKS2011.
Very good quality from Konstatin Khmelik.

I present the Su-34 FighterBomber.

http://www.youtube.com/user/KonstantinK ... nGQMWbbIxQ