![]() ![]() ![]() "It is very difficult to make sharp turns during ascent and descent, but they are quite useful in actual-combat conditions. "Today's performance is of great significance for actual combat," Zhang Yang, a J-16 pilot, said. The maiden flight demonstration of the J-16 in Zhuhai has won acclaim on the site by virtue of a series of difficult aerobatic maneuvers, such as sharp turn in low altitude at high speed, successive loops under continuous heavy load, and vertical pulling up. A PLAAF J-16 fighter jet performs flight demonstration at the 14th Airshow China on November 10. The four aircraft have to be in close and tacit cooperation to achieve coordinated maneuvering in preset formation. Given its new coating of stealth material as required, the J-20 features vague marking lines, which makes it difficult for the pilots to form an accurate judgment while flying in formation. According to Wang Zhen, the four-aircraft diamond-shaped formation is mainly to test the pilots' capability of accurate maneuvering, observation and judgment. The J-20 aircraft features good stealth performance and high maneuverability. The pilots must be very familiar with the aircraft's performance, and have a clear sense of the surrounding environment, while fully capable of maneuvering the aircraft with full fighting spirit. According to Wang Zhen, a pilot of the PLAAF J-20, most of the aerobatic maneuvers during the airshow demonstration are based on the requirements of real combat, and the routine exercise in daily military training. The J-20 and J-16 participating in the airshow are attached to a PLAAF flight training base. At the airshow, 50 types of weapons and equipment of the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) have been displayed, and the flight demonstrations conducted by the J-20 and J-16 flight jets brought down the house, fully showing the ever-changing equipment development level of the PLAAF and its strategic ability to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests. The 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition (Airshow China 2022) was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, from November 8 to 13. With thrust-vectoring airplanes, it’s a little easier, but still, the engines must fire hard enough the entire time to maintain the jet’s altitude, despite the loss of speed and lift.Four PLAAF J-20 fighter jets conduct flight demonstration at the 14th Airshow China on November 10. So, the plane needs to have a thrust-to-weight ratio higher than one. ![]() Pulling that far back in an airplane with no thrust vectoring means the pilot relies on the drag toward the tail of the plane in order to pitch the nose forward again. During this move, first performed by Soviet test pilot Viktor Pugachoyov in 1989, the pilot takes the nose of the plane completely vertical, or even beyond. One of the previews for the sequel depicts a Sukhoi Su-57 airplane performing a move called a Pugachev Cobra and a spin in horizontal flight, both of which are possible with the right airplanes, like the Su-57 and the F-22. While the new Top Gun: Maverick film is supposed to take place in contemporary times, it’s still a difficult feat to do a backflip. That technology didn’t crop up until the 1990s, either. Yet it’s “barely possible today with thrust-vectoring,” or an aircraft’s ability to change the direction of the thrust from its engine in order to control the altitude or angular velocity of the plane. Hollywood has become obsessed with fighters doing backflips, he says. So Malfitano was surprised to see that the airplane maneuvers depicted in the sequel’s trailer are less realistic. Between the first and second Top Gun films, Tom Cruise became a real pilot. The Sequel Upgrades to F/A-18s, But the Moves Are Less Realistic “So, although Top Gun’s depiction of the life of a naval aviator might not have been exceptionally well-written, the flying is almost all very realistic,” he says. In airshows, two pilots simulate this maneuver by keeping one airplane further away than the other, he says in other words, it’s faked, because it’s too perilous to actually perform. sucking the airplanes closer together) more quickly than the pilots would be able to react,” explains Malfitano, who offers a “mini degree” in aeronautical engineering. Even if that’s physically possible, it’s so precarious that the situation could probably get away from the pilots (e.g. ![]() “The glaring exception is the scene where the F-14 rolls inverted right on top of the F-5/MiG-28, so close that the F-14’s vertical stabilizers would be on either side of the other airplane’s.
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