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One Chinese J-10 Fighter Crashed in August, its Pilot awarded merit
Posted on 26 August 2009 by admin
August 27 (China Defense Mashup Reporting by Johnathan Weng) On August 25, the PLA Air Force awarded pilot Meng Fansheng the first-class merit for his successful disposing the air crisis of J-10 fighter.
On the eve of the Army Day which fell on August 1, Meng Fansheng, first-class pilot of the PLA Air Force, successfully parachuted under the situation of the abrupt loss of the engine power when he piloted his J-10 fighter to take off to the height of 680 m from the ground in the flight training.
PLA Air Forces investigation showed that the AL-31F engine malfunction cause this accident and Meng Fansheng attempted to resume the power for several times, and manipulated his J-10 fighter to avoid the populous areas twice in the handling of the serious special situation.
J-10 is Chinese first indigenous third-generation fighter but its power is AL-31F Turbofan engine imported from Russia. China has developed Taihang Turbofan engine but its quality is not stable and cannot be used in J-10 single engine fighter yet.
In March 2009, one J-10 fighter also met an engine failure during a training flight. Fortunately, the pilot Li Feng made a successful forced landing and saved his fighter.
Meng Fansheng, ethnic Man, graduated from a flying academy of the PLA Air Force in 1996, has flied for 2,000 hours in total. And Li Feng is an air force pilot with more than 2,000 hours of flight time.
In July, a Chinese Air Force JH-7A fighter-bomber participating in the Sino-Russian PeaceMission-2009″ joint anti-terror exercise crashed at Yaonan military training base in northeast China. Two pilots were dead.
Posted on 26 August 2009 by admin
August 27 (China Defense Mashup Reporting by Johnathan Weng) On August 25, the PLA Air Force awarded pilot Meng Fansheng the first-class merit for his successful disposing the air crisis of J-10 fighter.
On the eve of the Army Day which fell on August 1, Meng Fansheng, first-class pilot of the PLA Air Force, successfully parachuted under the situation of the abrupt loss of the engine power when he piloted his J-10 fighter to take off to the height of 680 m from the ground in the flight training.
PLA Air Forces investigation showed that the AL-31F engine malfunction cause this accident and Meng Fansheng attempted to resume the power for several times, and manipulated his J-10 fighter to avoid the populous areas twice in the handling of the serious special situation.
J-10 is Chinese first indigenous third-generation fighter but its power is AL-31F Turbofan engine imported from Russia. China has developed Taihang Turbofan engine but its quality is not stable and cannot be used in J-10 single engine fighter yet.
In March 2009, one J-10 fighter also met an engine failure during a training flight. Fortunately, the pilot Li Feng made a successful forced landing and saved his fighter.
Meng Fansheng, ethnic Man, graduated from a flying academy of the PLA Air Force in 1996, has flied for 2,000 hours in total. And Li Feng is an air force pilot with more than 2,000 hours of flight time.
In July, a Chinese Air Force JH-7A fighter-bomber participating in the Sino-Russian PeaceMission-2009″ joint anti-terror exercise crashed at Yaonan military training base in northeast China. Two pilots were dead.
.......who told u that BS. its like saying chinse 1 Kilometer is equal to european 5 Kilometer.
. If its a 3rd generation in chinese then its 3rd generation anywhere else in the world, same happen if its 4th or 5th gen. The classification of generation is based on the capabilites of aircraft and if the aircraft have those particular capabilities then it belong to a certain generation.
