Drachenflügel/Part Two- Shenyang J-11 (Flieger Revue Extra)
Posted 10-27-2007 at 04:38 PM by Sentinel Chicken
Tags drachenflügel, flieger revue, j-10
Continuing the series of profiles I created for Part Two of "Drachenflügel" in the German magazine Flieger Revue Extra (issue No. 18) is the second of the designs. The first design for Part Two, the Shenyang J-10, I posted last night here.
This is the Shenyang J-11- again, this is a reused designation as the J-11 designator is now used by the license-built Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker that, ironically, is built by Shenyang.
This J-11 design dates from the late 1960s after witnessing the experiences in the skies over Vietnam and the Middle East and was for a multirole strike fighter roughly in the same class as the Mirage F1. Unlike the F1, though, it had box-type intakes like that of the F-4 Phantom, a folding ventral fin similar to that the MiG-23/27 Flogger has, and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey engine.
The disappointing bench testing on "tweaking" a Spey engine for a strike fighter most likely had a role in the cancellation of this fighter design. China had imported approximately 50 Spey engines in the late 1970s. After a protracted development course, the Chinese government instructed Shenyang to focus development efforts on what would become the J-8B Finback fighter.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s it seems that the lack of a suitable engine was a major contributing factor in the cancellation of many promising combat aircraft designs for the PLAAF.
Andreas himself posted some additional information on this design at the Secret Projects forum here.
This J-11 design dates from the late 1960s after witnessing the experiences in the skies over Vietnam and the Middle East and was for a multirole strike fighter roughly in the same class as the Mirage F1. Unlike the F1, though, it had box-type intakes like that of the F-4 Phantom, a folding ventral fin similar to that the MiG-23/27 Flogger has, and was powered by a Rolls-Royce Spey engine.
The disappointing bench testing on "tweaking" a Spey engine for a strike fighter most likely had a role in the cancellation of this fighter design. China had imported approximately 50 Spey engines in the late 1970s. After a protracted development course, the Chinese government instructed Shenyang to focus development efforts on what would become the J-8B Finback fighter.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s it seems that the lack of a suitable engine was a major contributing factor in the cancellation of many promising combat aircraft designs for the PLAAF.
Andreas himself posted some additional information on this design at the Secret Projects forum here.
