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Russian Flanker Pilots to Fly Through Cave in China

Posted 3-21-2006 at 11:53 PM

A team of Russian pilots will reportedly fly fighter jets through a narrow cave in central China in a tourist stunt that will cost people up to 840 dollars to watch, the AFP news agency reported on Wednesday.

The agency quoted a report in Chinese newspaper Hunan Daily that read that the Russian air force jets, including advanced Sukhoi Su-30s and Su-27s, would fly through the famed Tianmen Cave in central Hunan province on March 17-18.

The cave, which resembles a rock archway, is only 57 meters (188 feet) wide at its widest point and 28 meters wide at its narrowest, it said.

Note: However, this flight was apparently cancelled due to Russian concerns over the local ecology

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