AIR & SPACE MAGAZINE

Fired Up

China performs high-speed tests on its new stealth fighter

Mike Klesius

January 25, 2011

Balkan military officials report that China's new stealth fighter might have some technology acquired from a Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999.

Whoever recently took this footage of the new fighter doing high-speed taxi tests gets plenty fired up about it around the 40-second mark. And who can blame him, with the sound of those engines? Flight buffs are flight buffs, no matter what the dialect.