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Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle (wallpaper 3). Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle aircraft images wallpaper gallery 3. Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle airplane pictures collection 3. The Chengdu J-20 (literally "Annihilator Twenty") is a fifth generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft prototype developed by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group for the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. In late 2010, the J-20 underwent high speed taxiing tests. The J-20 made its first flight on 11 January 2011. General He Weirong, Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force said in November 2009 that he expected the J-20 to be operational in 2017–2019. The J-20 was one of the stealth fighter programs under the codename J-XX that was launched in the late 1990s. It has been also designated “Project 718”. Two prototypes (#2001-01 & #2001–02) have been built as of the end of 2010. On 22 December 2010, the J-20 was under-going high speed taxiing tests outside the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute with no confirmed flight tests. The J-20 made its first flight, which lasted about 20 minutes, on 11 January 2011. Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle (wallpaper 3). Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle aircraft images wallpaper gallery 3. Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle airplane pictures collection 3. James R. Clapper has testified that the United States has known about the program for a "long time" and that the test flight was not a surprise. Globalsecurity.org states that China probably declined to participate in joint development and production of new fifth generation fighter with Russia given the belief that Russia stood to gain more from Chinese participation. Chinese leaders may have determined that their design was superior to the Russian PAK FA. United States House Committee on Armed Services chairman Howard McKeon said on the J-20 "my understanding is that they built it on information that they received from Russia, from a Russian plane, that they were able to copy". However Australian Aviation writer Steve Creedy has said that the Russians and Chinese are working on a similar aircraft, in addition to the Chengdu J-20. Balkan military officials told the Associated Press that China and Russia may have adopted some stealth technology from a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, which was shot down by the Serbian military in 1999 during the Kosovo war. If Chinese experts used the F-117 stealth coatings, the result would be decades behind current American state-of-the-art. However, Chinese test pilot Xu Yongling said that the J-20 was a "masterpiece" of home-grown innovation, he also said the F-117 technology was already "outdated" even at the time it was shot down, and could not be applied to a next-generation stealth jet. Janes editor James Hardy agrees that it was unlikely China would have learned much from the wreckage. Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle (wallpaper 3). Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle aircraft images wallpaper gallery 3. Chengdu J-20 Black Eagle airplane pictures collection 3.