Preface
Introduction
Abbreviatio
Chapter 1 Peistence and Courage
——The Birth ofthe People's Liberation Army Air
Force
“Newborn”一Liu Yalou Assigned to Build Air Force
“Planting the Seed”一The CPC’S Fit Pilots and Aircraft
The“Cradle”一The“Old Northeast Aviation Academy” “Take—Off'’一The Fit Flight Squadron and the Fit Air
Force Unit
“Growing Up”一The Fit Test of the People’S Air Force
Chapter 2 In the Skies of the Korean Peniula
Ready for Challenge
Breaking the Myth
“The Heroic Wang Hai Group”
Bombing the Taehwa—do&Sohwa—do
Innovative Tactics to De,at the Enemy
A Handshake Over the Pacific
Chapter 3 Creating a “ Territorial Air Defee”|
Air Power
The Liberation of Yijiangshan Islands
Striking High—Altitude Reconnaissance Aircraft
Exterminating the“Black Bat”
Hunting the“Black Widow”
Fighting agait Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft
Beating High—Altitude Unmanned Reconnaissance Aircraft
Fighting Second—Generation Fighter Aircraft
Chapter 4 Composition of the PLA Air Force Arms
The Air Force Aviation Arm
SAM Units
Radar Units
Air Force Communicatio Units
Airborne Troop
Other Military Arms
Chapter 5 Main Equipment of the PLA Air Force
Development of the PLA Air Force Equipment
Aviation Equipment
Radar Equipment
Chapter 6 Peacetime Missio
Disaster Relief
Supposing National Economic Development
Chapter 7 A Special Group
——Women Pilots
China’S Fit Group of Women Pilots
Women Fighter Pilots Flying over Tiananmen
China’S Fit Woman Pilot General
Meritorious Woman Pilot
The Fit Woman Commander of the PLA Aviation Division
Overcoming Cancer tO Return to the Skies
Chapter 8 Beyond Blue Skies
——International Exchanges and Cooperation
Conductedby the PLAAF
Open—Minded Gene
Fights Make Friends
A Special“Air Combat”
Missio for Peace
A Collision that Created Sparks
Flying Farther and Higher into the Blue Sky
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