Using FlightAware to track a Boeing 747-8F flight test FlightBlogger discerned "the unmistakable shape of the numbers 747 covering the states west of the Mississippi River".
The DEW Line carried video "from the world's least-secured runway for officially classified, experimental military jets", in China.
It shows take-offs by Chengdu's J-20 and JF-17, developed with Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, plus a surprise debut from the all-new J-10B.
The latter is powered by the indigenous WS-10 Taihang engine, which "symbolises China's ambition to become independent of foreign supply for its own tactical aircraft".
On Asian Skies, Greg Waldron explained how to tell a J-10A from a J-10B, and flagged an image that might show India's answer to the Boeing X-37B orbital test vehicle.
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