Happy Chinese New Year!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-02/15/content_5742975.htm

(If it’s on Xin Hua Net, it must be true.)

10 January 2007:
Y-8 freighter. Call sign 9352.
PLAAF.
15:26, emergency landed at a PLAN base in Shang Hai City.

13:25, took off in Bei Jing City, and flew towards a PLAN base in Shang Hai City.
About 15:00, above Chang Zhou City, began to descend. Pilot Huang Jian Guo pulled back the throttles to “20 degrees position” to decelerate, but engine #1 throttle (of four throttles) stuck at 60 degrees position. Aircraft began to yaw to right.

(The pilot didn’t shut down engine #1, but the article doesn’t mention whether the pilot tried to vary the other throttles.)

By 15:14, ATCs cooperated to clear an emergency landing route for the aircraft.
15:19, the aircraft flew above Shang Hai City.
900 m above the runway, the aircraft lowered landing gear.
The pilot again pulled back the throttles… all throttles moved to the 20 degrees position, and the aircraft safely landed.

(And there was much rejoicing.)

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/15/worldupdates/2007-02-15T095603Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-287787-1&sec=Worldupdates

“F-22 Japan deployment delay not due to N.Korea – U.S.”

February 15, 2007
By Jon Herskovitz and Jack Kim

The Yomiuri newspaper, quoting unspecified sources, reported on Thursday that North Korea had demanded the deployment be cancelled during six-party talks on its nuclear arms programme in Beijing that ended on Tuesday with an energy-for-arms deal.

Babewatch

http://www.news24.jp/76530.html
http://www1.ntv.co.jp/news/wmtram/news.cgi?movie=070201042.cgi.300k.76530.html

Video news dated 1 February 2007. 01m44s.
Audio and text in Japanese, except F-22 pilot’s interview in English. Filmed on location at Langley AFB, Virginia, USA.
Stock footage of F-22 releasing AMRAAM.

(This time, the reporter with the mike, is a woman.)

Probably old news to the Jap Netters amongst these forums, but FYI, the F-22 unofficial Jap nickname is “Raputan”, or “Rap tan” in semi-English, especially amongst the gunji Wota (military geeks) in the 2ch (2 Channel) message threads.

“Rap” is short for Raptor.
“Tan” is a suffix applied to only girls, unlike the similar “chan” that applies to both girls and boys.

BTW,
http://lemonhart.exblog.jp/4088723/
explains the JASDF serial number convention.

Predictably, the 2007 March #188 (Hong Kong), or 2007 February #270 (Taiwan),
http://www.diic.com.tw/images/270.jpg
issue of the Taiwanese mag Defence International,
http://www.diic.com.tw/
has interesting articles about the J-10 and its relation to Lavi, and about the PLA heloes, including Mi-17, S-70, Z-8, Z-9, WZ-10.

http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200702/070201/07020101.html

Japanese Ministry of Defense, FY Heisei 19 (2007) defense budget highlights.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2007-01/31/content_5675870.htm
is an article in Chinese, dated 31 January 2007, about PLAAF J-6s. Four pages, with some vintage photos.

The text mentions a few air kills by PLAAF J-6s: ROCAF RF-101s, USAF BQM-147G Firebees, and USAF F-4C.

] But the WZ-10 looks a bit small,like the size of Italian Augusta

Or maybe it’s just CCTV-9 is making an Air Wolf or Blue Thunder movie. 8)
Trumpeter hasn’t made a model of a “New Chinese Attack Helo” yet, has it?
After all, Trumpeter mass-produced a model of a “New Chinese Jet Fighter” back in 2004, IIRC.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123039896

“Japanese get first look at Raptor capabilities”

2/2/2007 – LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Virginia (AFNEWS) — Japanese media and members of the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. visited Langley Air Force Base, Va., Jan. 31 to get a look at the F-22 Raptor before it makes its first overseas deployment to Okinawa.