{"id":152295,"date":"2026-06-01T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152295"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T13:17:12","slug":"gu-songfen-pioneering-designer-of-chinese-supersonic-fighter-jets-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152295","title":{"rendered":"Gu Songfen, pioneering designer of Chinese supersonic fighter jets, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAerodynamics expert Gu Songfen has died at 96. He was the chief designer of China\u2019s J-8 fighter jet family \u2013 the first home-grown supersonic fighter jet to counter US high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft.<br \/>\nGu was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering as well as a researcher at the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). He died in Beijing on Sunday night, according to a statement from AVIC. A farewell ceremony is scheduled for Saturday in&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3355594\/gu-songfen-pioneering-designer-chinese-supersonic-fighter-jets-dies-96?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAerodynamics expert Gu Songfen has died at 96. He was the chief designer of China\u2019s J-8 fighter jet family \u2013 the first home-grown supersonic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}