The Russian Su-47 “Berkut,” an experimental fighter jet from the late 1990s, featured a distinctive forward-swept wing design ...

All the Facts: The Russian Su-47, with its unique forward-swept wings ... gear were all taken directly from the Su-27. With canards leading the wings, the Su-47 is extremely maneuverable.

If there’s an easy way to identify the MiG-27, it’s the sweep-wings. Much like the more famous (and easier to recognize) F-14 Tomcat, the Flogger features wings that can sweep forward to ...

This is the story of a Russian fighter-jet concept with bizarre forwardly-swept wings ... an R-27 right to the face by better-trained Ukrainian pilots in their far inferior MiG-29s and Su-27s.

Summary: The 1996 unveiling of the Sukhoi Su-47 Berkut, a tech demonstrator with forward-swept wings, sparked widespread ... Mikoyan i Gurevich worked on the MiG 1.44, which arrived nine years ...

Last Seen at MAKS in 2007, The Experimental Su-47 Tested Forward Swept Wings and Other Advanced Technologies ... MAKS 2019 runs from Tuesday, August 27 through September 1.

The IAF's Swing-Wing fighter jet MiG-27 flew its last sortie at the Jodhpur ... Marking the end of the variable sweep (Swing-Wing) era of the IAF. Swing-Wing is an airplane wing, or set of ...

The X-29 was designed to test a forward-swept wing and close-coupled canard ... high-speed gyrodyne (Flight International, 21-27 February). After a tortuous history that saw Boeing’s X-37 ...

Swept wings are nothing new, but one lesser known fact about them is that when it comes to making the wing appear thin to the air, sweeping the wings forward is as good as sweeping them aft.

There’s no airplane quite like the Grumman X-29. Its astonishing forward-swept wings were just one of its many bold innovations. Created at the height of the Cold War by a conglomerate of giants ...