01-05-2009, 06:21 PM
More incompetence.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->MCA was expected to make its first flight before 2009.[7] It will face direct competition from China's J-XX, whose prototype is expected to be flown somewhere between 2008 and 2010.[8] However MCA will be a strike fighter, so the F-35 may be more of a suitable competitor, as the J-XX refers to several possible fighter designs.
A single unsubstantiated report, based on comments attributed to a Mr. M Natarajan, has claimed that the plane might fly by March 2009. [9] However, given that MCA is in design conceptualization stage, the claims made in this report are improbable.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Comb...aft#Design
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->MCA was expected to make its first flight before 2009.[7] It will face direct competition from China's J-XX, whose prototype is expected to be flown somewhere between 2008 and 2010.[8] However MCA will be a strike fighter, so the F-35 may be more of a suitable competitor, as the J-XX refers to several possible fighter designs.
A single unsubstantiated report, based on comments attributed to a Mr. M Natarajan, has claimed that the plane might fly by March 2009. [9] However, given that MCA is in design conceptualization stage, the claims made in this report are improbable.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Comb...aft#Design