They most likely knew it all along. Some of the aircraft's components are either not fit for flight, or they haven't been tested enough. They'll get there eventually.
Flightline modifications ongoing.
-The aircraft is currently on her nose and wing jacks. I believe this is the first time we've seen her in such a state after she was initially lowered onto her landing gears months ago.
-Ejection seat has been disassembled.
-Testing of the...
It's not abandoned as far as I'm aware. The probability of that project being abandoned is also quite low in my personal opinion since the Air Force Command is nowadays interested in Hürkuş-2 and not Hürkuş-B.
Georgio Clementi: "A historic day at Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). The first day of the first ever test pilot and flight test engineer course to be held in Türkiye. Twelve students from TAI, the Turkish Air Force, Directorate General Civil Aviation and ASELSAN commenced their journey to a...
They do know the variables. Hence the existence of the simulator to begin with. You can model your pre-existing designs on the simulator and gather genuine data by performing flight tests on the simulated environment. The Hürjet team was performing flight tests in the sim at a time when the...
KAAN's head engineer: "Maybe you'll see, we have a 6 meter long titanium frame that is done being processed. On this aircraft (referring to GTU-0/P0) we didn't have the necessary equipment to process such parts, so we procured them now. This will bring huge advantages regarding the production of...
Supply chains are critical...
"Due to supply problems, we had to make many parts of ANKA-3 in the workshop. We also had problems with these parts that we made ourselves. There was an asymmetry issue with the brakes, which we solved. If we fly it in June, we will fly it within 17 months after...
Ground tests of the High Speed Target Aircraft SUPER ŞİMŞEK are about to be completed. It is expected that SUPER ŞİMŞEK will make its first flight after the holiday and will be ready for use in September.
The first ignition test of the KTJ-3700 Turbojet Missile Engine, developed by Kale Arge for the land based ATMACA missile, was carried out successfully.
My post no longer exists due to understandable reasons. Sometimes I feel like these news outlets go too far with their content... How TAI allows this is beyond me.