Turkey’s Kaan Fighter Passes First Flight Hurdle
Primer-color parts give away some of the modifications made to the prototype Kaan to enable its Feb. 21 first flight.
Credit: Turkish Aerospace Industries
Turkey’s flagship efforts to develop an advanced indigenous combat aircraft have achieved their initial major milestone: first flight. Ministers, engineers and industry leaders had waited almost 14 years for the 13-min. first flight of the Kaan prototype, which took to the skies over Ankara on Feb...
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