What is the T-50 aircraft, or PAK FA

Promising multi-role fighter T-50 was created in the framework of the "Sukhoi PAK FA" (PAK FA). Development of the aircraft began in EDO im.P.O.Suhogo at the end of the 1990s. Announced in April-May 2001 call for proposals under the program PAK FA was won in 2002, the project fighter T-50. The chief designer of aircraft - A.Davidenko. Full-scale design T-50 began after the defense of conceptual design in 2004. Production of the series of T-50 prototype began at the plant KnAAPO (Komsomolsk-on-Amur) in late 2006. The first flight of the prototype T-50-1 made January 29, 2010 at the airport Dzemgi in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The program is the first phase of testing PAK FA began April 29, 2010 on the basis of FRI in Zhukovsky (Moscow region), and the adoption of aircraft into service and admission to the Air Force combat units is planned for 2013-2015































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