F-47 Design Progressing, First Flight On Track

[Pioneer]

No, some of you is just trolling around.

Everyone here knows basic history of USAF AC development and how it works.

There is YF- prototype/tech demonstrator and F- production variant.

YF-22 started flying in 1990. F-22 took its first flight in 1997.

X-35 tech demonstrator flew in 2000. While F-35 first prototype flew in 2006.

NGAD prototype flew in 2020. And production representative F-47 will fly 2028. Nothing radical here.

Thank you for your understanding. We can actually directly discuss NGAD. Nothing else.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

No, some of you is just trolling around.

Everyone here knows basic history of USAF AC development and how it works.

There is YF- prototype/tech demonstrator and F- production variant.

YF-22 started flying in 1990. F-22 took its first flight in 1997.

X-35 tech demonstrator flew in 2000. While F-35 first prototype flew in 2006.

NGAD prototype flew in 2020. And production representative F-47 will fly 2028. Nothing radical here.

They did fly a scaled down tech demonstrator in 2020, and the 1:1 prototype is scheduled to conduct its maiden flight in 2028.

 

[F-22Raptor]

They did fly a scaled down tech demonstrator in 2020, and the 1:1 prototype is scheduled to conduct its maiden flight in 2028.

What will fly in 2028 will be final production representative, similar to the B-21. The technological advancement has been completed, now it’s just about integrating that into the production model and testing that for operations.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Some of the thread participants are clearly worked up because nothing is known about the US stealth aircraft programs other that what has been authorized for public disclosure yet somehow the Chinese prototypes are superior even though they admit the designs are still evolving.

In other words, prototypes.

 

[F-22Raptor]

F-47 airplane​

Under research and development contracts with DARPA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin designed two X-planes as risk reduction for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform. These aircraft first flew in 2019 and 2022, logging several hundred hours each.

As reflected in the statement from Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Allvin: “For the past five years, the X-planes for this aircraft have been quietly laying the foundation for the F-47 — flying hundreds of hours, testing cutting-edge concepts, and proving that we can push the envelope of technology with confidence.”

F-47 airplane | DARPA

Under research and development contracts with DARPA, Boeing and Lockheed Martin designed two X-planes as risk reduction for the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform. As reflected in the statement from Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen. David Allvin: “For the past five years, the...

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These were clearly full scale prototypes with both aircraft flying hundreds of hours each. In comparison the YF-22 prototype flew 91 hours and YF-23 65 hours.

What flys in 2028 will be F-47 production representative. The US is past the prototyping stage.