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Three prototypes of the future fighter T-50 (PAK FA) for the first time the group will show aerobatics at MAKS, which will be held in Zhukovsky outside Moscow on August 27 ─ 1 September 2013. This is stated in the report of the United Aircraft Corporation. Further details regarding the upcoming demo of T-50 is not specified.
Meanwhile, the test pilot Sergei Bogdan told RIA Novosti that at the air show will demonstrate the flight characteristics of the aircraft at high angles of attack, "as well as the group passes a T-50." Currently, pilots are practicing superagility figures. According to Bogdan, test pilots needed a year to prepare the flight program, "First we check the figures at high altitudes and gradually, day by day, come down."
To date, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant collected four prototype T-50, which are being tested in Zhukovsky. In the near future to the flight test program is to join the fifth plane. In total, the Ministry of Defence has ordered 60 Russian fighter T-50, and the Air Force need for such aircraft is estimated at 150-200 units.
At the 2015 planned state joint tests of T-50, and in 2016 a new fighter will go to the Air Forces of Russia. The performance characteristics of advanced combat aircraft until classified. T-50 made its first flight in January 2010, and the first public display of the aircraft took place in August 2011 at the MAKS-2011 (when the flight is conducted only one prototype fighter).
Meanwhile, the test pilot Sergei Bogdan told RIA Novosti that at the air show will demonstrate the flight characteristics of the aircraft at high angles of attack, "as well as the group passes a T-50." Currently, pilots are practicing superagility figures. According to Bogdan, test pilots needed a year to prepare the flight program, "First we check the figures at high altitudes and gradually, day by day, come down."
To date, the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aircraft plant collected four prototype T-50, which are being tested in Zhukovsky. In the near future to the flight test program is to join the fifth plane. In total, the Ministry of Defence has ordered 60 Russian fighter T-50, and the Air Force need for such aircraft is estimated at 150-200 units.
At the 2015 planned state joint tests of T-50, and in 2016 a new fighter will go to the Air Forces of Russia. The performance characteristics of advanced combat aircraft until classified. T-50 made its first flight in January 2010, and the first public display of the aircraft took place in August 2011 at the MAKS-2011 (when the flight is conducted only one prototype fighter).
