Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

[kungfugymnast]

But why do you think it "sounds like a FBW malfunction" if the original post mentioned, that the pilot "ejected himself while the aircraft was flying upside down at a low altitude"??

IMO it sound like a tragic mishap, maybe the altitude was too low to enable a safe ejection in upside-down? ... IMO more likely than to assume a malfunction of the FCS.

He said that based on the F16 fly by wire flaws cases back then which caused numbers of fatal F16s crashes.

 

[Chimgathar]

Guys is there any news about conformal fuel tanks for J-10C, I saw some CGI renders few months back.

 

[ozranger]

Guys is there any news about conformal fuel tanks for J-10C, I saw some CGI renders few months back.

They did quite a lot wind tunnel tests on it but finally figured out that it is not cost effective.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Guys is there any news about conformal fuel tanks for J-10C, I saw some CGI renders few months back.

The CGI renders by Gaoshan probably go several years back.

 

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[LKJ86]

J-10S

 

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J-10A

 

[Globalwarrior]

Beautiful bird

 

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[Maxpane]

Beautiful indeed