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Apparently, we don't have a lot to worry about.
Chinese Air Farce
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cessna170bdriver
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Chinese Air Farce
On the outside chance some of you don't get AvWeb:
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Ch ... 047-1.html
Apparently, we don't have a lot to worry about.
http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/Ch ... 047-1.html
Apparently, we don't have a lot to worry about.
Miles
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GAHorn
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
They might be more clever than at first glance,... if one considers that their posting a farce may cause their adversaries to conclude they have no capability. 
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cessna170bdriver
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
That thought crossed my mind, but then I wondered that if that were the case, why say anything at all? And, why pull the video so quickly?...gahorn wrote:They might be more clever than at first glance,... if one considers that their posting a farce may cause their adversaries to conclude they have no capability.
Miles
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GAHorn
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
Because pulling the video quickly furthers the illusion of deceit.
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cessna170bdriver
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
So George, do you really believe they have the capability?
Miles
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GAHorn
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
cessna170bdriver wrote:So George, do you really believe they have the capability?
To shoot down a jet with a missile? Of course! Ever since Viet Nam.
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50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
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cessna170bdriver
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
Poorly phrased question on my part. 
Do you think their "J10" has that capability?
Do you think their "J10" has that capability?Miles
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GAHorn
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
To re-play a copy of "Top Gun"? I doubt it.cessna170bdriver wrote:Poorly phrased question on my part.
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50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
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50th Anniversary of Flight Model. Winner-Best Original 170B, 100th Anniversary of Flight Convention.
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Brad Brady
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
When we have a part...and need to make a new one...we just call it a Chinese blue print....they do that with everything! and have no concern about patens or priporitory rights....seams (it is) wrong, yet they have the strongest currency in the world 
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marathonrunner
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Re: Chinese Air Farce
Yes but they now make EDO floats and one engineer I spoke with said "not only are they cheap, they are inexpensive" Lot to be said for the quality
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