The fourth KF-21 prototype, still showing the original design for the inboard tail boom, is among six development test aircraft that have completed nearly 1,500 flights collectively through late October.
Credit: KAI
A single-seat KF-21 Boramae, engine shrieking, inched forward out of the Korea Aerospace Industries’ flight-line hangar on a late October afternoon. A spin-recovery system sat high on top of the airframe between the fighter’s canted tails, suggesting that sortie’s test card would be full of induced...
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