Just got the July 2009 issue of AFM.
On page 26, WRT the article “Hong Kong seeks Jetstream 41 replacement”, the currency used in HK is the HK Dollar, not “Yuan”.

The Yuan is the RMB (Ren Min Bi = People’s Currency) used in Commie China… although many HK local shops and supermarkets accept the RMB, which has appreciated in recent years, and is stronger than the HK Dollar vs the Euro and US$.
WRT the Greater China theatre of ops: China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan each uses a different currency. (OTOH, regardless of all the bumph about unification (of China and Taiwan into Chaiwan, or of Shang Hai and Hong Kong into Shang Kong), each of these four countries/regions sends a separate team to the Olympics…)

http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!He83hVmcHxZH9KSiA81P6A–/article?mid=222
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!TmtqDcmeGSjzCjmPsjR4fcLB/article?mid=624

A table of 34th “Black Bat” Squadron, ROCAF, attritions (mostly shot down by the Chicom). Dates, types, locations, and crews.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2009-06/12/content_11530681.htm

“Chicom aviation hundred years chronicle”

Includes the dates of the first flights of various Chicom planes.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2009-06/12/content_11530091.htm

Various Chicom planes and munitions are going to Paris on 15 June 2009.

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=703

“Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Power Laser in Flight”

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., June 15, 2009 – The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Air Force on June 13 successfully fired the high-power laser aboard the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) aircraft for the first time in flight.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=defense&id=news/ABL061209.xml&headline=Smaller%20Aircraft%20Tests%20With%20ABL%20Eyed

“Smaller Aircraft Tests With ABL Eyed”

Jun 12, 2009
John M. Doyle

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) wants to explore putting Airborne Laser (ABL) technology on a smaller aircraft than its current jumbo jet platform, MDA’s director said June 11.

] I’d be more concerned with missing a target and wondering where all that energy really went.

Try the ending of this movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

“Real Genius (1985)”

Hint: popcorn.

Modern Military Aviation forum moderators evidently tolerate on-topic zombie threads!

] let have some Badger talk.

22 March 1995:

(Reportedly, this was the only time where a PLAAF H-6 crew ejected and anyone survived. For the 26 years between 1969 and 1995, the H-6 had eight First Class accidents, and 41 crew bought the farm.)

H-6A. #17.
10th Division, PLAAF.

During a long-range, multi-target bombing training, after take off, left engine malfunction, and the plane became uncontrollable. The commander ordered the crew to maintain good condition, eject in sequence, and lost radio contact.
The plane crashed about 16 klicks out of the AB.

The second navigator ejected at 600 m, his chute opened at 200 m, was lightly wounded, and rescued.
The communications operator ejected at 350 m, his chute fully opened at 15 m, landed in a farm, and wasn’t wounded.
The co-pilot ejected too low, his chute didn’t open, and bought the farm.
The other crew didn’t eject in time, and bought the farm.

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_53ae0b700100ctbe.html

http://www.mikicapsule.com/product/product/ndxl/omdmnd/marvel/200811/20081103091721.html

CZ-2F, J-10, and KJ-2000 toys that come in capsules. Pre-painted, and some assembly required.
HK$ 10 (US$ 1.28) each, if we can find a capsule-vending machine that has this series.

(IMO, “China threat” conspiracy theorists unite!)

The answer is simple. China has a license from General Motors to manufacture the Humvee. That’s why it’s an “exact copy”.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaHNTf_69dGY
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/business/03auto.html?bl&ex=1244174400&en=b5c37ec88313a338&ei=5087

“GM to Sell Hummer to China’s Tengzhong, Helping Shed Brands”

By Katie Merx and Cathy Chan

June 3 (Bloomberg) — General Motors Corp., seeking to shed assets to emerge from bankruptcy, agreed to sell the Hummer sport-utility vehicle brand to China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co.

http://www.plaaf.net/html/18/n-24218.html

J-7s. Comrades #07 and #08.
Ba Yi aero team, PLAAF.
Paint scheme for PRC 60th National Day on 1 October 2009.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090527-00000273-mailo-l45

26 to 29 May 2009:
Nyuutabaru AB, Miyazaki Prefecture.
JASDF Air Defense Command war technique competition meeting (battle against fighter).
Six F-2 from Misawa AB (Aomori Prefecture) and Tsuiki AB (Fukuoka Prefecture). Three F-4 from Nyuutabaru AB.
Scenario is 1,500 to 6,000 m above sea near Shikoku Island, one aggressor suddenly appears from behind flight of two fighters. Tests teamwork of fighters, and whether can be shot down in limited time, 5 to 6 minutes.