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After the Chinese F-8 fighter damaged the Navy's EP-3, its 24-member crew went into a destructive ballet - carefully choreographed in advance and practiced numerous times - to ensure the Chinese takeout from this intelligence windfall from the sky would be minimal, Pentagon officials...
...southern tip of China's Hainan island. To date, the runway had been all bitumen, a surface suited to propeller aircraft but given to melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view of the apparent defense buildup, flight routes should be shifted farther from China's coast. Nothing was done...
...other incentives, he won't have to--the states and cities will come running, money in hand. Dallas offers a tax-free state, a business-friendly government and proximity to big customers American and Southwest. And because Boeing is fighting to win the contract for the next generation JSF fighter, its cause wouldn't be hurt by locating in the home state of the President, so the theory goes...
...world has seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...
...hardly surprising Beijing hasn't rushed to hand over a U.S. spy plane and its 24-man crew involved in a mid-air collision with a Chinese air force fighter on Sunday. To understand why, flip the script for a moment: Imagine a Chinese plane flying a surveillance mission off the Florida coast colliding with an Air Force F-16 sent on an aggressive monitoring mission. The U.S. fighter goes down and the pilot is lost; the Chinese plane is forced to land on U.S. soil. The incident occurs at a moment when China is about to supply a package...