In article <d94cvblutkdnbqnq66ublog73hfbpss5b4@4ax.com>, not my real pseudonym
says...
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>...a little wine with that cheese? ;^}
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>Seems like essentially a Chinese attempt at the F-4 Phantom...?
Two items in the wiki article stuck out...
"On its maiden flight on December 14, 1988, while en route back to the airport
to land, the engines of the JH-7 prototype suddenly begun to vibrate violently.
The test pilot Huang Bingxin (???) decided to make an emergency landing, but as
he approached the airport, the vibration was so great that two thirds of the
instruments had been shaken off the instrument panel, and all of the connectors
of the remaining third still attached to the panel had also been shaken loose,
so none of the instruments worked"
and
"On August 19, 1992, the entire rudder of a JH-7 suddenly fell off at an
altitude of 5000 meters".
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