Chengdu J-10 Multirole Fighter Air Craft News & Discussions

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500th J-10

 

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J-10S

 

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J-10 made its maiden flight on March 23, 1998:
https://m.weibo.cn/2656274875/4352685983199466

 

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J-10 made its maiden flight on March 23, 1998:
https://m.weibo.cn/2656274875/4352685983199466
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The father of J-10, 宋文骢, passed away on March 22, 2016.

 

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The father of J-10, 宋文骢, passed away on March 22, 2016.
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Here's a handy, concise, straight (no detected spin/twist at this particular page) English page on the chief designer, Song Wencong 宋文骢〔宋文驄〕 :

Song Wencong was born on 26 March 1930, in Kunming, Yunnan, with his ancestral home in Dali, Yunnan. He joined a youth organization of the Communist Party of China by the end of 1948. He enlisted in the Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou border region column of PLA in July 1949 as a scout. In May 1951, he joined the Chinese People's Volunteer Army to fight against the American-led United Nations forces in the Korean War. In August 1954, he was accepted to Harbin Institute of Military Engineering (now Harbin Engineering University), where he majored in aircraft engine at the Air Force Engineering Department. After graduating in July 1960 he was assigned to Shenyang 601 Design Institute as a designer. He was a designer of Chengdu 611 Design Institute from 1970 to 1974, and he was elected deputy chief designer for 1977 and chief designer for 1980.

At the age of 56, he was appointed chief designer of the Chengdu J-10.

In 2003, he was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

He was honored as one of the top ten people touching China in 2009.

Song was also honored by the second prize of National Scientific and Technological Progress Award.

On 22 March 2016, Song died at 301 Military Hospital in Beijing, aged 85.

The source (Wiki).

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WOW! The Chief Designer himself handed over the bouquet to the testing pilot of the J-10 upon the successful maiden flight! What a big honor! No wonder the pilot's eyes were filled up with his falling tears. So touching those very sentimental pictures, they were telling a lot beyond words the great challenges, difficulties, pressures… and eventually the great delights, reliefs and great satisfaction upon completing the flight trial successfully… in 1998

(not yet set my eyes into this field, still occupied with life, heard nothing, learned nothing back then, info was scarce to where I live, almost nonexistent, was in total darkness)

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I happened to just stumble across this link of the top three aircraft designers in China nowadays, and at least two of them once worked closely with the late Song Wencong as his assistant or deputy, thus I simply stick it here.

An interesting read of the Chinese three top aircraft designers: Yang Wei, Tang Changhong and the female designer, Zhao Xia.

Most stars aviation class! A bright class from the Northwestern Polytechnical University having the J-20, Y-20 and J-15 chief designers

By jiaotong916 at 2018-10-17
(seemingly a machine translation but it's still intelligible)

http://chinesenewsfeed.com/article/cdd679043dffd0bd

Yang Wei 杨伟

Yang Wei 杨伟 (center) was admitted into the Northwestern Polytechnical University at 15 years old and graduated at 22

Tang Changhong 唐长虹

Zhao Xia 赵霞, the first female deputy chief engineer (of J-15)

 

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In PLAAF, J-10A, J-10S, J-11A, J-11B, J-11BS, Su-27SK, Su-27UBK, Su-30MKK are 3-generation fighter aircrafts, while J-10B, J-10C, J-16, and Su-35SK are 3.5-generation fighter aircrafts.
That is the main difference between J-10A and J-10C.

Just for clarification, the 3rd-gen and 3.5 generation that you mentioned here are according to the Chinese standard or int'l standard? Cuz the 4th-gen of China (the J-20) equals to the 5th-gen of int'l standard.

 

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J-10 fighter jets of China's Bayi Aerobatic Team perform during Pakistan Day
parade.

Published on 24 March 2019 – Xinhua

#J-10 fighter jets of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force's August 1st aerobatics team perform during an air show to mark the Pakistan National Day in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan, on March 23, 2019.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1109992886656008197

 

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J-10A and J-10S

 

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J-10A and J-10S

 

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J-10C

 

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J-10A and J-10S
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lov to c 36 J-10c in Pakistan Air Force