J-20... The New Generation Fighter II

Engineer said:

Assuming the aircraft is assembled in Chengdu, its first flight must be in Chengdu's airfield as well. And there's no way the first flight would take place at night... simply too risky.

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yea but first flight means it could be sometime else. let's not forget there were UFO sightings in china lately, though im not trying to completely credit UFOs to the J-20. also, only those within the project knew when the plane first flew, so it's definitely possible the plane flew much earlier, or one of those days no one's around, or whatever leaks were clogged up by the great firewall.

vesicles said:

They can definitely put the half-assembled plane on a train to ship it to the Gobi desert in the West and test it there. I don't believe the airfield they are using to test J-20 is their designated place for testing secret weapons. After all, it's located next to apartment buildings.

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agreed. shipping it is also definitely possible. while the great firewall seemed to be denoted as something negative all along, we should start to appreciate its marvel in terms of how tight information can be controlled. here in this case, it's all in china's favor.

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Hmmm. That looks like AL-31F?

vesicles said:

Hmmm. That looks like AL-31F?

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That article was written before today's flight. It was leaked earlier if it's real.

vesicles said:

they don't have to test it in chengdu. They must have secret bases in the middle of nowhere somewhere. I wouldn't expect China to have its ONLY airfiled for testing highly sensitive planes built in the middle of a city.

People have been speculating that the Chinese govn't wanted this to go public simply because they chose this particular airfield.

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Apart from that, it appears it was kept low key, without any official press release before the test?

vesicles said:

Hmmm. That looks like AL-31F?

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Thats a CG work around for some days.

It appears to have some special paint put on it. Its colour changes when viewed at different angles. Grey when viewed at the bottom and black when you view it from the top.

J-20 in the air!

Cpt_Underpants said:

It appears to have some special paint put on it. Its colour changes when viewed at different angles. Grey when viewed at the bottom and black when you view it from the top.

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I think that's exactly what is intended. It blends in with the sky when you look up to it. It blends in with the ground when you look down from the top.