kwaigonegin
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I have a friend of mine who actually works in the 'paint' department at Boeing here in town. Maybe I can ask her LOL
China Flanker Thread II
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thunderchief
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US most certainly uses different chemical compound . Btw , wheels on J-10s are usually gray . This looks much better then ugly green but probably offers less protection from elements , since naval J-15s exposed to salt reverted to green .
Are all of you seriously debating the merits of green paint?! It looks uglier than grey or black, period, and this is the first time I've heard anything about flankers having green wheels for anti corrosion reasons...
Give me a break...
Give me a break...
Yes, I will give you a break, cease and desist gentlemen, I do appreciate all of your fair and even handed reasoning Blitizo, I personally love the zinc chromated Flankers, makes them look new and fresh to the old AFB.
vesicles
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Just like the pink chain we seen on Liaoning.
Still a chain.
I was also thinking about that exact chain!
if it's random posters rather than someone I think is reliable, I will rarely mention it or say something along the line of speculation on Chinese forum.
JH-7B is not exclusively PLAN just as JH-7/A was not. But as seen with JH-7/A, they did not get PLAAF orders until they satisfied the requirements of PLAAF and also entered in PLANAF in 3 regiments. I'd imagine JH-7B is for new units, not for replacements. I don't know anything else at this point.
USN and USAF paint their landing gears white mainly so that any hydraulic fluid leak become easy to spot. But it does seem to make the planes look more like an surgically precisely engineered instrument.
It's not clear to me why Russians and Chinese do not find it advantageous to also paint interior parts of their plane a color that aids in fault spotting. I certainly think the idea had occurred to them. So they probably have some other reason why they paint the wheels of their plane the color they do. But look wise I think a green wheel does make an otherwise sophisticated plane look somewhat agricultural, like it ought to be diesel powered or something.
It's not clear to me why Russians and Chinese do not find it advantageous to also paint interior parts of their plane a color that aids in fault spotting. I certainly think the idea had occurred to them. So they probably have some other reason why they paint the wheels of their plane the color they do. But look wise I think a green wheel does make an otherwise sophisticated plane look somewhat agricultural, like it ought to be diesel powered or something.
I think I need to interject here and to give you the benefit of my opinion, which is not only based on NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER, but also ABSOLUTELY NO EXPERIENCE OF ANY TYPE IN THE PRODUCTION OF ANY AIRCRAFT - MILITARY OR CIVIL, EVER AT ANY TIME IN MY LIFE. Obviously I have whetted your interest and whipped it to fever pitch.
For the Russians, the Flanker is a family of indigenous Aircraft developed serially and each serial aircraft given its own designation. For the Chinese however the Flankers have been obtained through purchase and licence and represent the starting point of their own indigenous development projects. I believe therefore that the separate designations represent a new branch of aircraft development/specialisation that will run in parallel and which will quickly diverge from the original flankers and the other variants.
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