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Sukhoi’s Stealthy T-50 (PAK FA) Goes PublicRussia chose the MAKS 2011 airshow near Moscow to this week publicly unveil what’s generally billed as its answer to the U.S. F-22 Raptor, the Sukhoi T-50. The stealthy air superiority fighter flew a six-minute demonstration after secret tests in January of last year. Russian news agencies claim the […]

Russian planemaker Sukhoi will make a business-jet version of its SuperJet 100 regional airliner. The company announced the new aircraft Tuesday at the Paris Air Show and said market demand was behind the decision. It expects to be able to sell up to 100 of the $50 million business jets over the next 20 years. […]

A Turkish newspaper says Italian aviation giant Alenia is in talks with Russia’s Sukhoi to bring a new supersonic business jet to market by 2015. Hurriyet, an English daily, says the aircraft will fly at more than Mach 1.6, carry eight passengers and be designed to mitigate sonic booms. It sounds like an update on […]

Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and refreshing this page.If that doesn’t work, click here to download the video directly. Russia flew a prototype of its new Sukhoi T-50 fighter on Friday. The aircraft is said to be the first fighter jet designed and built in post-Soviet Russia, albeit with help from India. […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive AVweb reader Scott Ross turned us on to this video of the first civilian registry SU-27 Sukhoi Flanker flying overhead … in Rockford, Illinois. Scott tells us he “heard it banging around yesterday but didn’t realize what it was. RFD’s Runway 25 touchdown point is four miles from my house, […]

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Aircraft penetrated the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone but remained in international airspace.