It' actually the prototype that lead to the JF-17 in many ways after the J-7S Saber II program got scrapped when US involvement backed-out due to [url=http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/tank-man-wide.jpg]a thing that China refuses to admit ever actually happened[/url].
*Pakistan apparently didn't seem to mind, though.

-[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-7#Export_variants]Had it gone through[/url], it would've been a Chinese MiG-21 with an F404 turbine, an F-16's intake, and an F-20 Tigershark's radar; plus the option of using either Soviet, or NATO compatible weapons.

The widespread adoption was largely hamstrung because the engine and radar [i]EACH[/I] cost more than an entire J-7M. So without outside subsidiaries, it quickly got scrapped as "neat plane, no thanks".
-One of its neatest features was the ability to automatically coordinate drone-strikes.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDC_F-CK-1_Ching-kuo]Meanwhile in that 'other' China...[/url]

PS: I was originally aiming for a male pilot, but trying to find "Chinese Fighter Pilot"... I gave up after 10 pages...

Edit: read history... added bio... Yep, China was intense. Also, BTW... I may had been inspired earlier to RP the opening stages of the Sino-invasion of Manchuria from the POV of a light tank crew.