How To Shoot an Airplane

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Scans of a pamphlet dated 1965, titled 怎样打飞机 ("How to Shoot an Airplane").

Link to original post on 白板报, with scans of instruction manual. Via PostShow.

7 Responses to “How To Shoot an Airplane”


  1. 1 Boing Boing

    Vintage Chinese pamphlet: How To Shoot an Airplane

    At Institute for the Future’s Virtual China blog, Jason Li points to scans of a 1965 pamphlet titled 怎样打飞机 (”How to Shoot an Airplane”). Link…

  2. 2 Lyn

    The original post has more great prints. Says it was published in 1965 by the Guangzhou Military Headquarters.

  3. 3 Fang Liang

    FYI…. 打飞机 (”Shoot an Airplane”) is a slang term in Chinese for maturbation. Aside from the obvious, That repetitive motion of the hand looks similar to anti-aircraft guns of that have the anti back-coil mechanism that rocks back-n-forth. :-)

  4. 4 xorms

    If you know what the other meaning of “打飞机” is in Chinese language, you’ll know why he posted it~ :)

  5. 5 jason

    Fang Liang & xorms:
    :D
    Why do you think the post (found on PostShow) caught my eye in the first place :) ?

  6. 6 triple7

    It’s like accounting for lag in a FPS.

  7. 7 Siliconsunset

    No, accounting for lag in an FPS is like *this*…

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