Russian Raptor First Flight

[pacman1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8487026.st...

Longer footage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxWZiSdWvns&NR=...

Edited by pacman1 on Monday 1st February 03:53

[pacman1]

Given that paint plays a significant part in such aircraft being 'stealthy', what's with all that yellow paint on the nose, tailplanes and intakes? Does colour only matter for visual camoflague? Were they making it look pretty for the cameras? In contrast, I've only seen the Raptor as grey on grey in grey, with added extra grey..

[pacman1]

Flunker?

[pacman1]

I've added another link with longer footage of the flight to my op.