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X-2 expected to clock around 50 flights during test campaign

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016 by alert5

Flight Global interviewed Hirofumi Doi, manager of Japan’s Future Fighter Program at the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), and Doi said the X-2 demonstrator will fly around 50 flights.

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That weird-looking VTOL X-Plane has flown

Posted on April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 by alert5

Aurora Flight Sciences announced last week that a subscale model of its LightningStrike, Vertical Take-off and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-plane) for DARPA has flown at a military installation.

Photo: Aurora Flight Sciences

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Official MHI press statement on X-2’s maiden flight

Posted on April 23, 2016 by alert5

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has a press release on the first flight of the X-2 stealth demonstrator.

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X-2 landing at JASDF Gifu Airbase

Posted on April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 by alert5

Air-to-air photo of X-2’s first flight

Posted on April 22, 2016April 22, 2016 by alert5

A press release by Japan’s Ministry of Defense has details of the first flight of the Mitsubishi X-2 stealth demonstrator. The aircraft took from from Nagoya airfield at 0847 local time and landed at JASDF Gifu airbase at 0913.