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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Sukhoi T-50 Engine Stall?

Looks like an engine problem interrupted a planned test sortie at Zhukovsky.  No verdict yet on what the problem was that caused the high-speed abort.  Personally I have to scratch my head at performing active flight test as part of an airshow... talk about opening yourself up to scrutiny.  Hopefully the test objectives were fairly benign.  I guess everybody has their own approach to flight test and to marketing.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2379924.ece

(Photo courtesy GEI)

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