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To: U-238

My money says the Canards will fall off and the J-20 becomes a lawn dart!!

In aeronautics, canard (French for “duck”) is an airframe configuration of fixed-wing aircraft in which the forward surface is smaller than the rearward, the former being known as the “canard”, while the latter is the main wing. In contrast a conventional aircraft has a small horizontal stabilizer behind the main wing.


14 posted on 03/10/2012 7:48:43 PM PST by WellyP (REAL)
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To: WellyP
My money says the Canards will fall off and the J-20 becomes a lawn dart!!

It depends how serious they want to develop this technology.According to "The Telegraph" their design is 25 years old.They still can't compete with us.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8241968/Chinas-J-20-stealth-fighter-design-is-25-years-old.html
15 posted on 03/10/2012 7:56:37 PM PST by U-238
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