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left wing running late?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599101629063913472

calibration...

 

[Hexciter]

Turkey’s New Fighter-Like Drone Takes Flight — For A Few Seconds​

The Baykar Company’s highly-ambitious Kizilelma drone fluttered just above the runway during its latest test.
BYSTETSON PAYNE| PUBLISHED DEC 3, 2022
THE WAR ZONE

Twitter Screencap

The Baykar company's new fighter-like drone has flown for the first time — albeit for a very short time.
The Turkish 'Kizilelma' drone got airborne over the runway at the Akinci Flight Training and Test Center in Tekirdag Province. Baykar's Chief Technology Officer Selcuk Bayraktar said the test was completed successfully, not indicating whether the very brief flight was planned or accidental. By how the video clip is edited below, it makes it look like a conscious decision.
We recently wrote about the Kizilelma’s emergence for ground testing and the design’s potential future, which you can read all about here.
The canard-sporting drone with some stealthy attributes looked decently stable in ground effect over the runway before touching back down during a high speed, nose-up run.

Via @Selcuk on Twitter.
If this was a spur-of-the-moment takeoff and not planned, the test team is probably thankful it avoided an embarrassing and costly mishap. Nearly 50 years ago, the YF-16 prototype had a much more exciting misadventure on a high-speed ground run, as the below video from Lockheed Martin shows in an interview with test pilot Phil Oestricher.
With the Kizilelma clearly itching to get airborne, its official first flight of substantial duration may not be too far away.

Turkey's New Fighter-Like Drone Takes Flight... For A Few Seconds

The Baykar Company's highly-ambitious Kizilelma drone fluttered just above the runway during its latest test.

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Andyrew
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I hope TWZ writers aren't paid by the word.
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  Charles Spratlin
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  really hope your computer and cell phone burn up at the same time so we need not be "graced" with your obnoxious presence
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Do the Wolf care about the fleas? He only has to scratch himself from time to time.

 

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Stick to the topic, the salty comment of someone below an article is hardly worth a post.

 

[Combat-Master]

 

[NitricAcid]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

 

[BalkanTurk90]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

Cheap 5 gen fighter aircraft like russia did with checkmate , to produce in mass , easy and cheap that will work aslo for export .

 

[Zafer]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

They already said flying cars will come after KE but I doubt it as they also said it will take 10 years. They should keep perfecting KE with more powerful engines and also with twin engines. They should also step into space planes that travel in both the atmosphere and outside of it to launch space loads to LEO or missiles to longer ranges. But they should never step into manned fighters.

 

[Merzifonlu]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

I expect/want to be a reliable company that stands firmly behind the product it produces. Launching a new product is relatively easy, but maintaining a consistently high standard of service over many many years is very difficult.

 

[Agha Sher]

Cheap 5 gen fighter aircraft like russia did with checkmate , to produce in mass , easy and cheap that will work aslo for export .

i don’t think they will ever go into manned aircraft’s. I think we will see specialised drones. Strategic bombers, refuelling, AWAC and maybe a 6th gen fighter drone

 

[Pilatino]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

I expect extraordinary and shocking things from them. Don't laugh but a drone which is able to orbit on earth like a satellite with laser or some kind of killing machine as anti satellite .

 

[Rodeo]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

KIZILELMA is a platform that needs to be updated constantly. Especially on the software side. But beyond that BAYKAR has to find a way to tap the civilian market. They're growing like crazy and you can only sell so many military drones. At this rate I don't think they're gonna find many customers for the drones after ten years because of the fulfilled demand. They're either gonna shrink and become a niche design/manufacturing company or they're gonna pivot to an application through which they can penetrate the civilian market. An example would be flying, autonomous taxis. It will be a tough market but a decision has to be made and development should continue if they don't want to eat dust.

 

[GoatsMilk]

 

[NitricAcid]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

Don't be surprised if you see these two together in space.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599349243470557184

 

[Oublious]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

I expect a TB3 with jet engine for longer range and speed, a global hawk equilivant drone, i expect upgrade version of tb2. Before space ther is enough work on earth.

 

[Mustafa27]

Kargu has been exported to 10 countries:
Didn't realize we exported so much.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599403243200688128

 

[Hexciter]

It’s clear that the bird accepted as flied

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599402362015186949

 

[F-6 enthusiast]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

i'd love to see an ''Electronic Attack'' drone or maybe a refuelling drone.

 

[Lool]

Kargu has been exported to 10 countries:
Didn't realize we exported so much.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599403243200688128

I think this is a mistake to sell such products
Kargu is a critical project and shouldnt be sold to countries willy nilly

 

[Heartbang]

I Have A Question :
What Do You Expect/Want From Bayraktar After 'Kizilelma' ?

IMO they should step onto civilian aviation markets, we could use an indigenous airliner.