] look closelier

The number “9” is upside-down too?

http://mil.news.sohu.com/20100714/n273492262.shtml

解放军飞豹战机装中国心 发动机腐蚀难题已解决

2010年07月14日09:24
来源：解放军报 作者：钱晓虎 江明 杨薇

“PLA Fei Bao fighter install Chinese heart
Engine corrosion problem already solved”.

http://www.takungpao.com.hk/inc/photo/photo_cont.asp?nid=1285391&cid=988&c=&id=475080

中國新飛豹戰機發動機100%國產化

2010-7-14

“China new Fei Bao fighter engine 100% domestic production”.

http://mil.news.sohu.com/20100709/n273388044.shtml
to
http://mil.news.sohu.com/20100709/n273388044_2.shtml

Chinese article, three pages, about history of Chicom AWACS planes. Zzz.

J-10B gets an IFR probe and its pitot tube removed.

BTW, another Netter mentioned the J-10 with DSI, doesn’t have the six… vertical sticks between the bottom side of the cockpit and the top side of the intake; three on each side.

] to celebrate the Chinese national team entering the world cup!

to celebrate the Chinese national team winning the world cup!

] after three crashed in June, July, and August 1984

My files currently don’t have the serial numbers of these F-100As. 8(

] for those who with to take part anyway.

Not a big fan of the F-100, but the ROCAF flew it, so I’m mildly attracted.

] I’ve been a poster on this forum for over 7 years now

I’ve been here since summer ’03 or so. 8(

] Thanks fellas for keeping the thread on this forum.

No problemo, dude. You may have noticed I sometimes kidnap, eh, borrow other members’ zombie threads, which cause the mods of the other forums to close that thread, thus producing more of those redundant threads that seem to annoy you, when later members repeat those same topics; but the glorious mods of this glorious Modern Military Aviation forum seem to gloriously tolerate such zombie threads, and don’t immediately close them when revived.

] Join Date: Aug 2003

Doh.

] many of those posting here don’t read ‘HA”, so they wouldn’t have seen it had it not been posted here.

Agreed.

] Any thoughts, chaps?

Ignore.

] Amazing how the F-8 dwarfed the F-100.

Actually, after years of playing flight sims and watching Top Gun; in the late ’80s or early ’90s, when the first time my friends and I drove for an hour or so to an air show near Toronto (Canada), and we got to touch an active service F-14 tasked as ground display, I thought it was smaller than I expected.

A decade later, when I was in Karachi (Pakistan), and got to see some preserved PAF jet fighters from the ’50s that a decade ago I’d read about, these were even smaller. The length was… as if… just enough for the engine and for the pilot’s seat in front of it. 8D

] Not sure when Taiwan retired theirs

http://www.defence.org.cn/article-3-1277.html
http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_1369206_1.html

ROCAF, 11th Group flew F-100A until 1984. 48th Squadron was the last F-100A squadron of the world.
ROCAF F-100A retired in September 1984, after three crashed in June, July, and August 1984; one crash per month.

http://www.picturechina.com.cn/bbs/thread-81046-1-1.html
claims “PLAAF MiG-29”, with bort number “54 Red”.
The caption says “China through special route acquires several MiG-29 fighters used for research and ‘Blue Force’ fighters”.

(IMO, probably Photoshopped.
AFAIK, WRT Soviet fighters after the MiG-21, the Chicom managed to get some MiG-23s from Libya, and maybe a Mi-24 from Afghanistan.)