Thai warships return to land of birth

A F25T and a 053H of the Thai Navy are visiting China today.

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Thailand navy warships to visit Shanghai

2004-08-11 12:13:37 to click:

On August 11, 2004 the morning, the Thailand royal navy which leads by Thailand naval war college chief staff officer sincere Rong Sa Hongcha prosperous Major General “reaches the letter”, “in the match cloth” the escort ship, drives arrives at the Shanghai navy Yangtze river wharf, starts to Shanghai for 5 day-long friendly visits.

Navy Shanghai safeguard base vice- Commander Senior Colonel Shen Changkang presides over the ceremony in the wharf, welcome the peaceful ship to visit. Visit, the peaceful navy officers and soldiers will visit the guided missile escort ship which our country independently will develop, will tour Shanghai famous scenic spot and so on the Eastern pearl, jade Buddhist temple, Henan garden, the Chinese-Thai navy officers and soldiers also holds the basket sports match, the tug-of-war match and so on a series of friendly exchanges.

This visit “reaches the letter” the escort ship, the length 120 meters, the width 13 meters, the fully loaded displacement 2,980 tons, the equipment has the harpoon place missile, 127 millimeters main artillery and so on; “In the match cloth” the escort ship, the length 103.2 meters, the width 11.3 meters, the fully loaded displacement 1,924 tons, the equipment have the C-801 place missile, 100 millimeters main artillery and so on. This time along with formation visit officers and soldiers 495 people.

This is the Thai navy warship fifth time visits Shanghai.

So how long has the this J-10B been officially public?

GDL, the J-10, whether one or two seat version, is not officially public.

But from the PLAAF watcher’s standpoint, the first hint of flight was in a FC-1 related article in September 2003 which said Chengdu and the FC-1’s lead designer was expecting first flight of an unnamed two-seat fighter at the company in December of that year.

So the J-10B was believed to have flown at the end of 2003. We started getting pictures about two months ago.

Will have to work on that then 🙂

K8V!

A Chinese aviation mag, according to a post, said the K-8V was actually a huge step in China’s FBW development.

“On June 25, 1997, the Chinese second-generation “variable stability aircraft and inflight simulation test aircraft” airplane K8v was flown successfully by air force test flight group (CFTE) test pilot Li Cunbao and Shi Tongzhou. K-8v changes the steady airplane not only to have three axis of freedom (pitch, yaw, roll) changes the steady ability, moreover also can complete including takes off, the landing many kinds of aerial mission airborne simulation test flight and so on the special topic research. “

That is this plane can simulate not only the handling characteristics of other planes but also their takeoff and landing behaviors.

This is pretty advance FBW abilities even by 1997. If one aircraft isn’t hard enough, you are creating a system capable of dealing with the flight characteristics of various aircraft.

The FBW laws written and steadily developed over six years for the IFSTA would be an indicator of the systems in the J-10 and FC-1.

“At present, had the advanced fax control system (FBW) K-8v to change the steady machine synthesis simulation ability to achieve the world advanced level.”

#203 at CFTE

Aerial photos of CFTE (China Flight Test Establishment)

1. the familiar flightline

2. Y7s; the one in primer on the far left looks like it has a rear ramp and should be a Y7H.

3. a frontal view of the JH-7/JH-7As. The well known green one (084) is the second JH-7 from the right. A Y7 at the far right.

Time for a few pictures.

An H-6 bomber being assembled next to a Y7 (from color scheme on tail, it is the Y7-100 demonstration machine) at Xian.

Note twin-barrel NR 23mm cannon being put in place for the dorsal turret 😀

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Laser! The guy who took the picture probably lost half the rods and cones in his eyes. No more night vision for him 🙁