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CAT-1 Test Pilot Murat Özpala

-I did a test & evaluation flight in KAAN's engineering simulator today.

-It has the most comfortable and spacious cockpit I have flown in my entire life… It's literally a "wheelhouse".

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Total 5.550 flight hours (2.850 as Instructor & 2.000+ as Test Pilot) in various types of aircraft including F-4E Phantom/ F-16B/D, P-51 Mustang / L-39 Albatros / Extra 300 / F-16D / T-38A / SF-260D / T-37B / CN-235 / T-41D / T-6A TexanII / MU-2 / Pitts S2/ PA-44 Seminole / PA-31 Cheyenne / SR-22 Cirrus / DA-20 / T-33A / T-41D / C-172/ T-38M / A-29 Super Tucano / C-402/ T-6B TexanII/ KT-1 Wongbee / KO-1 / KT-1T / HURKUS (Experimental)
Isn't he one of the 6 Turk pilots flying the F35?
 

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Are the locations of those vertical stabilizers final? Apparently the location of those vertical stabilizers have an adverse effect on the stealth of the aircraft. (or so i heard)
No, it was done to manage RCS in fact. Currently, the plan is to keep them as they are. We will see what TAI comes up with in the not too distant future.
 

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@Heartbang
You probably meant IIR signature exposure?
 

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I have no idea but If someone knows, do the vertical stabilizers need to align with diverter plate/ inlets angle to reduce RCS? I always imagined that was the reason
 

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No, it was done to manage RCS in fact. Currently, the plan is to keep them as they are. We will see what TAI comes up with in the not too distant future.
I was refering to the fact of vertical stabilizers being directly on the engine humps.

Notice the F-22's vertical stabilizers' position. They are not mounted on the engine humps, just right next to it.

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And this is KAAN for comparison:
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I was refering to the fact of vertical stabilizers being directly on the engine humps.

Notice the F-22's vertical stabilizers' position. They are not mounted on the engine humps, just right next to it.

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And this is KAAN for comparison:
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I know what you are referring to. But like I said... There currently are, in the short term at least, no plans to move the vertical stabilizers to the side booms.
 
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