This months Combat Aircraft magazine....

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

....has a superb article on current PLAAF fighters, including a shot of a J-10 (or Lavi as our friend Zeke calls it), with what looks like a flight leaders band curving around the fuselage aft of the canards.

Also carries confirmation of the RAF order for three (old) RC-135 'Rivet Joint' Elint aircraft to replace the Nimrod R1's

Good issue this month and worth a twenty-minute examination, next time you're in 'Smiths !

Ian

[deathjester]

Good issue this month and worth a twenty-minute examination, next time you're in 'Smiths !

Ian
[/quote]Careful, you may have old Giffers hobbling out from behind the counter, shouting "This is not a library"!! 

Several of our local newsagents seem to have such antiquated staff members, seemingly for precisley this purpose....

[Fulcrum]

Hopefully, they manage to ship it across "the pond" to my local book store

[Shasper]

We're talking about the June issue, right?

[Deino]

....has a superb article on current PLAAF fighters, including a shot of a J-10 (or Lavi as our friend Zeke calls it), with what looks like a flight leaders band curving around the fuselage aft of the canards.

Also carries confirmation of the RAF order for three (old) RC-135 'Rivet Joint' Elint aircraft to replace the Nimrod R1's

Good issue this month and worth a twenty-minute examination, next time you're in 'Smiths !

Ian

Thanks for Your kind words ! 

And yeppp ... this was one of the J-10 taking part on the 60th anniversary celebration's fly-by and the yellow stripe - also applied to the J-11A - were done as formation flying marks.

Besides that part two of the PLAAF-report will follow next month ... something on the AEW-types in August ... and finally later that year part three on the bomber-force !

Cheers, Deino