#y-8

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1938 Checker Y-8 Taxicab

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*ballifies your drawing*

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Taipei tested missiles, Beijing controlled fighters

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In 1986, two engineers from Beijing's Ministry of Aviation visited Lockheed. They could not speak very much English, and the Lockheed-Georgia sales person who met them could not speak Chinese. So for half a day, they did a point-and-grunt tour until they were lucky enough to find a Lockheed employee who could speak Chinese. The Chinese wanted to purchase Lockheed wind tunnel testing on the Y-8 in order to address the stall problem. As a result of these wind tunnel tests, conducted in 1986, Lockheed was given a contract to do a flight test series on the Y-8. Lockheed was told that flight test data was not provided by the Soviets when they helped China build the Y-8 factory. The flight test series was flown by Lockheed test pilot Hank Dees. Hank had flown the test flight series for the Lockheed L-1011 and later for China's Y-12 in Harbin. During this flight test series, Hank Dees flew the aircraft to stall speed and taught Chinese pilots how to anticipate a stall in order to prevent letting the aircraft go inverted. As a result of this test flight series, Chinese pilots started to use the 45 degree flap position. Lockheed's motive for doing flight tests was to demonstrate that China would be better off buying the C-130 rather than trying to improve the Y-8. China did buy C-130's, but the flight test series actually demonstrated that the Y-8 was a more capable aircraft than previously believed.

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KJ-2000/3000 Mainring (based on Russia's A-50 Mainstay) and Y-8/KJ-200 "Balance Beam" demonstrate PLAAF increasing AEW&C capabilities at Zhuhai Air Show. - November 2014 Via Foxtrot Alpha

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Los nuevos aviones Y-8 que recibió la Aviación

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PLA unveils China's first psychological warfare plane

The PLA Air Force has modified its Y-8 transport aircraft into the GX-7, which is being touted as the country's first aerial platform for waging psychological warfare, reports the Hubei Daily based in Wuhan.

Based on the blueprint of the Soviet-built An-12 transport, there are about 20 variants of Y-8 aircraft currently in service with the PLA, The plane has also been exported to countries including Myanmar, Pakistan, Sudan, Tanzania, Venezuela and Sri Lanka. The Gao Xin Seven or GX-7 is one of them.

The GX-7 has the ability to broadcast propaganda through radio frequencies and television signals, as well as jamming enemy communications.

The plane, with a range of 6,000 kilometers, makes China the second nation to possess an aerial psychological operations platform after the United States. The EC-130J aircraft of the US Air Force's 193d Special Operations Wing were used widely during the conflict over Libya in 2011, which broadcast radio transmissions in English, French and Arabic to encourage the population to rise up against the Gaddafi regime.

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