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- Reg: 20210 photos
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- Airline: China - Air Force
- Photo Date: Jan 24, 2020
- Uploaded: Jan 30, 2021
- Other Location - Chinese military museum, China
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During the "'2016-China-Russia Air Darts' competition" in Ryazan, Russia, a 92-years old Russian veteran came to Chinese team's side, holding a old photo of a Chinese pilot. He used to be a pilot or technician of Tu-16. China sent several pilots to the USSR in 1960s, learning how to fly Tu-16, and the Russian veteran was the trainer of those Chinese pilots at that time. After the training, one of a trainee gave him a photo as a souvenir. Due to language and distance barrier, they lost contact after that. He asked if the Chinese team could help him finding his student. The Chinese pilots agreed, and they invited him to see our fancy planes such as JH-7, J-10 ect. He was glad to see that China has such nice planes. And he asked: "So, nowadays your guys don't fly Tu-16 anymore, right?" Although we answered, Het, we don‘t fly Tu-16 anymore, we were embarrassed a little bit . Because we are still flying H-6. The latest versions are H-6K/J/N, equipped with D-30KP2 and modified avionics. It looks like a Tu-16, it sounds like a Tu-16, it smells like a Tu-16, IT IS TU-16!!!HAHAHAHAH. Btw, we find his student in the photo(Xuehai ZHANG) after half a year. Hope both of them are still healthy and will have a chance to meet someday. see https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8493279/ for more info.
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During the "'2016-China-Russia Air Darts' competition" in Ryazan, Russia, a 92-years old Russian veteran came to Chinese team's side, holding a old photo of a Chinese pilot. He used to be a pilot or technician of Tu-16. China sent several pilots to the USSR in 1960s, learning how to fly Tu-16, and the Russian veteran was the trainer of those Chinese pilots at that time. After the training, one of a trainee gave him a photo as a souvenir. Due to language and distance barrier, they lost contact after that. He asked if the Chinese team could help him finding his student. The Chinese pilots agreed, and they invited him to see our fancy planes such as JH-7, J-10 ect. He was glad to see that China has such nice planes. And he asked: "So, nowadays your guys don't fly Tu-16 anymore, right?" Although we answered, Het, we don‘t fly Tu-16 anymore, we were embarrassed a little bit . Because we are still flying H-6. The latest versions are H-6K/J/N, equipped with D-30KP2 and modified avionics. It looks like a Tu-16, it sounds like a Tu-16, it smells like a Tu-16, IT IS TU-16!!!HAHAHAHAH. Btw, we find his student in the photo(Xuehai ZHANG) after half a year. Hope both of them are still healthy and will have a chance to meet someday. see https://www.bilibili.com/video/av8493279/ for more info.Camera
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