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Did some quick poking around.  Apparently the US was going to have Grumman upgrade the radar and FCS on J-8IIs for the Chinese in exchange for loadsamoney.  The project name for this was "Peace Pearl."  Events at Tiananmen Square led to the end any progress on the matter.  I imagine the aircraft seen above is one of the few planes that made it to the US for this upgrade.  Not sure how it ended up in Topeka though.

 

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Topeka Museum Webpage on F-8II

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Did some quick poking around.  Apparently the US was going to have Grumman upgrade the radar and FCS on J-8IIs for the Chinese in exchange for loadsamoney.  The project name for this was "Peace Pearl."  Events at Tiananmen Square led to the end any progress on the matter.  I imagine the aircraft seen above is one of the few planes that made it to the US for this upgrade.  Not sure how it ended up in Topeka though.

 

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Topeka Museum Webpage on F-8II

 

Nice sleuthing.

 

Same time frame as a bunch of tank technology got transferred to China too; that's how they ended up with US/Brit fire control technology and L7 clones.

From that same museum, a prototype of the J31 jet:

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I was unable to tell whether this was a GE built prototype or a British-built Whittle prototype.  Either way, this is a really old, really rare jet engine prototype.

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