CHINA - Teatime under the Bamboo Curtain
1967: the PRCh is heading for its first H-Bomb.
Since years the CIA/Taiwan U-2s are doing regular high overflights (for photos, sigint, isotope sampling, sensor drops), but now several were shot down by new SAMs and MiGs.
Planners have to change to low-level operations, so activate the Bat pilots (Black Bat Squadron - Wikipedia) and start “Operation Heavy Tea”.
Your C-118 (or future Milviz C-130 
) uses two old airfields in northern Burma. Fly over the Tibetan Plateau, coming closer to the nuclear processing plants in Sichuan and the Lop Nor bomb test site (@ 40.7809, 89.2705). Its 4850km total, along many of Chinas highest mountains, used as nav-aids and radar-shaders.
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See the reality behind:
(I like them pods disguised as boulders @ 48:20min, some CIA guys clearly were on shrooms …)
Less is known about “Operation Heavy Chai” - 3300km from India:
Drop a pod into the sand just 100miles from the Test Site. The legs over the empty Taklamakan desert have to be done at dune height (spectacular!) to avoid detection.
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