F-22 Raptor-ski: Part II
Seems all isn’t skittles ‘n’ beer over in Sukhoi land these days… Funding for the new engine for Russia’s next-generation fighter, the Sukhoi T-50, is in big financial trouble, and will force the aircraft’s firsts flight in 2009 to be undertaken with AI-31 engines now used on the Su-27. NPO Saturn, which led the engine…