Subject: Re: Jian-6 China Air force
From: "Steve Bamford" <[email-masked]>
To: "Zhang Jun Peng" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:01:14 -0700

Steve Bamford
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Zhang Jun Peng 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 6:38 PM
  Subject: Jian-6 China Air force

  Hi Steve :

  The attachment is my recent built Jian 6 and some information related with this jetfighter.

  Thanks

  MANUFACTURER: Shenyang Aircraft Industry Corporation

  The J-6 fighter is a Chinese copy of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 'Farmer' fighter. The MiG-19 was the first supersonic fighter built in the former USSR. The MiG-19 prototype made its first flight in September 1953 and was placed into production in 1955. It was the Soviet Union's primary fighter during the last half of the 1950's. Possibly as many as 10,000 MiG-19's, in various versions, were built by the Soviet Union, China, Poland, and Czechoslovakia.

  Production of the MiG-19's Chinese version J-6 began after the signature of a license agreement in January 1958. The first prototype resembled the MiG-19PF and MiG-19SF and was named as Dongfeng-102 (Dongfeng = East Wind). Its first flight took place on 23rd Sept 1959, but the aircraft suffered from serious quality problems. Later the redesigned J-6 resembling MiG-19SF took flight successfully in 1961.

  The J-6 became famous in the 1960s after winning several air combats against more advanced aircraft. On 5th June 1965, a J-6 driven by PLA Naval Aviation pilot Gao Xiang shot down a U.S. Air Force F-104C 'Star' fighter near Hainan Island. During the India-Pakistan War in 1965, Pakistani Air Force's J-6 fighters shot down 12 Indian Air Force aircraft, including one MiG-21, eight Su-7s, and three British-made 'Hunter' fighter-bombers, while only three PAF's J-6 fighters were lost in the battle.

  Regards

  Zhang Jun Peng

  TianJin, China