Originally Posted by
SpazSinbad
13 Dec 2022
Former U.S. Pilot Helped Chinese Aviators Train for Aircraft Carriers, Indictment Says - WSJ
14 Dec 2022
T-2 Buckeye was exported to South Africa to help train Chinese carrier pilots
https://alert5.com/2022/12/14/t-2-bu...ts/#more-96263
"The U.S. warrant and 2017 indictment of a former U.S. Marine Corps Harrier pilot accused of helping China to train its military pilots have been unsealed by the District of Columbia court. According to information in the indictment of Daniel Duggan, the U.S. government had allowed a T-2 Buckeye trainer to be exported to South Africa due to false information given.... U.S. prosecutors said that the T-2 was exported to a South Africa flight academy. Dugan is accused of providing training to Chinese pilots at the academy from 2010 to 2012...."
Perhaps this gent was the si-fu (sorry its Cantonese for master / mentor) for the first batch of aviators to join the flat top club.....
It has not been too long since they started trapping the wire and calling the ball.
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