The J-10 bucked like a tiny skiff in a raging storm, rising and falling violently. The single AL-31F turbofan was pushed to nearly its theoretical 130 kN thrust, and the fuel gauge was visibly dropping. Even with maximum output, the fighter felt as if it were stuck in mud—descending with painful reluctance. Worse yet, just as Lin Mo managed to drop a little altitude, the aircraft was kicked upward again, the angle of attack refusing to stabilize before the jet was swallowed by another pocket of turbulence.
Warning alarms shrieked relentlessly. Lin Mo kept toggling switches, manually adjusting every system he could. The savage shaking would have battered an ordinary pilot into nausea or blackout, but not him. With his monstrous physical endurance, he simply ignored vibrations of this magni
