This year, at the exhibition, commonly known as Airshow China, a Chengdu twinjet J-10B multirole fighter demonstrated the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation’s WS-10G thrust-vectoring turbofan engine with an aerobatics demonstration that included the Pugachev’s Cobra maneuver. The new thrust-vectoring engine – China’s first – increases the J-10B’s agility and could give the fighter an edge when evading threats or engaging enemy aircraft.
To following images from the Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese state-owned media organization, capture the J-10B’s performance at Airshow China 2018.
Read more: SAE International’s full coverage on the J-10B and the new thrust-vectoring engine
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
(Image source: Xinhua News Agency)
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William Kucinski is content editor at SAE International, Aerospace Products Group in Warrendale, Pa. Previously, he worked as a writer at the NASA Safety Center in Cleveland, Ohio and was responsible for writing the agency’s System Failure Case Studies. His interests include literally anything that has to do with space, past and present military aircraft, and propulsion technology.
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