First impression (from a flight-simmer and modeller’s POV): fixed in-flight refuelling probe (USN type, not USAF type), and Zhong Hua LANTIRN pods…
Hardpoints behind the left and right landing gears, but the cannon seems to tightly fit just between the centreline drop tank and the left Zhong Hua LANTIRN pod…
No hardpoints or winglets at wing tips…
2008.10.14:
JASDF announced salvage mission completed.
By 2008.10.10, wrecks salvaged from depth 100-200 m.
Wrecks, included fuselage with two engines, delivered to Tsuiki AB for investigation, until year end.
DATE:23/09/08
SOURCE:Flight International
By Siva Govindasamy
AA transformation is under way at Kawasaki Heavy Industries as the Japanese conglomerate’s aerospace division attempts to reduce its reliance on military sales and increase its revenues from commercial aviation.
“The delay-plagued C-X airlifter may have to be redesigned”
16 October 2008:
Mitsubishi MRJ news.
ANA may buy 25 aircraft. Japanese government may buy about 10 aircraft.
First flight scheduled in 2011. Operational in 2013.
More importantly, in the articles, good photos of the (nudge, wink) mock-up of the MRJ interior. (Yeah, that’s it.)
“Boeing Awarded Contract to Continue Testing Advanced Tactical Laser”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Oct. 14, 2008 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a U.S. Air Force contract valued at up to $30 million to continue testing the Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL).
A shopping center manager who tried to sell an aging passenger jet for 8 million yuan appears to have retracted a claim that it was Chairman Mao Zedong’s personal airplane.
The chart compares the WJ1-TE-004, Storm Shadow, and JSOW.
Type, length, diameter, gross weight, payload weight, range, and guidance.
The * states the WJ1 specs are guessed. 8D
8 October 2008:
Between 13:00 and 14:30, two Russian Air Force Tu-22M3 took off from a coastal air base in far eastern Russia, and flew over international ocean.
Followed for 30 minutes, by two JASDF F-15 from Chitose (Hokkaidou).
Later, followed for four minutes, by two JASDF F-15 from Hyakuri (Ibaraki).
Two Su-27 took off to escort the bombers.
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