Please understand....due to the death of the Chinese fighter pilot.....it is with some mixed feelings that I post the picture and joke below.  Steve Bamford

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In a heroic dogfight fought over international waters off the mainland China coast, a 60s era American-built Lockheed Electra propeller airliner with 24 US Navy  passengers/observers aboard chewed up one of China's best state-of-the-art supersonic fighter aircraft. 

The Americans utilizing the infrequently seen combat tactic of straight and level flight, often accomplished by relying solely on autopilot, engaged the unfortunate single seat combat jet and knocked it out of the air using only one of its four formidable rotating air mass propellers. 

After the action, the crew and passengers/observers dropped in on China's Hainan Island Resort, for some much deserved R&R as guests of the Chinese government.

Reprinted from the Taiwan Daily Gazette by staff writer One Wing Lo