楊世駒的GRC-102任務

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楊世駒先生辭世 (Gimo Yang Passed Away)

楊世駒先生（左）與蔡盛雄先生（中）
Gimo Yang (left) and Mory Tsai (center)

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GRC 126飛行路線 (GRC 126 Mission Track)

由楊世駒先生在1962年9月8日執行的GRC 126大概是所有黑貓中隊的任務最具爭議性的一次，原因之一是因為飛機上的裝備故障讓他提前返航，陳懷在第二天接續他的任務時被飛彈擊落。中國共產黨也因為擊落U-2而對GRC 126的規劃和執行大放厥詞。
Mission GRC 126, flown by Gimo Yang, was one of the most controversial missions flown by the 35th SQ, not the least because its abort necessitated Chen Huai to redo the mission, leading to his death. To boast about their “achievement”, the Chinese Communists then concocted a story about how they fooled the CIA and ROCAF in planning GRC 126.

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與楊世駒先生餐敘

承蒙黑貓末代隊員蔡盛雄先生熱情邀約，有幸在3月22日晚間與回國選舉的楊世駒先生餐敘，同桌的還有兩位航空史研究的前輩劉永尚和傅鏡平先生。

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GRC-126

陳懷在1962年9月9日被擊落的前一天，楊世駒執行了一次代號為GRC-126的偵照任務。關於這次任務的描述，目前可以公開查到的，不外是來自過去兩岸出版的書籍和文章，所以都有一些共同的錯誤。前幾天在一個部落格上看到轉載一篇紀念陳懷的文章，其中也提到了GRC-126這次任務，還是有一樣的錯。既然美國方面已經把這次任務的檔案解密，我想在此說明清楚，以免日後積非成是。以下引用的部分是該部落格上的文字。 Read the rest of this entry »

The Credit Belongs to Gimo Yang（為楊世駒先生說句公道話）

In his memoir Piercing the Bamboo Curtain from the Sky, Col. LU, Shi-Liang stated that CHEN, Huai, detected that several Tu-16 bombers were stationed at Shuan-Cheng-Tzu Missile Test Range and Wu-Kung Airfield during his historical first U-2 mission on January 13, 1962.  Probably referring to LU’s memoir, Professor Shi (習賢德) also mentioned in his Apocalypse: Reunification vs. Independence (統獨啟示錄) that CHEN found several Soviet-made Tu-16 were stationed at Wu-Kung.  In fact, it is almost certain that CHEN did not photograph Wu-Kung Airfield during his first mission, since neither Immediate Photographic Interpretation Report nor Mission Coverage Index for GRC-100 mentioned Wu-Kung.  It is also worth noting that, although China received two Tu-16 from the Soviet Union in 1959, its production of H-6 did not start until 1969.  So how could CHEN find “several” Tu-16 (or H-6) in 1962?

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「飛鳴鏑」釋疑（二）

跟其他中共關於U-2的書籍一樣，「飛鳴鏑」也指稱，楊世駒在1962年9月8日執行的任務，是因為中共在前兩天分別調動轟炸機飛往江西，我國與美國因此安排U-2前往一探究竟（不過「保衛祖國領空的戰鬥」說是9月7、8日兩天，「飛鳴鏑」說是6、7日，他們得先打一架決定誰才是對的）。「飛鳴鏑」甚至還說「空情總署署長衣復恩接到…報告，慌忙跑到總統府去向蔣經國報告」，還說楊世駒當天的「偵察計畫中並沒有廣州」，而是因為飛機故障，才在回程順道偵察廣州的。

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