All black-and-white images were taken by either CORONA KH-4A Mission 1035 on Sept 27, 1966, or KH-4B Mission 1106 on Feb 11, 1969. Color images are courtesy of Google Earth. The information…
Tag: SAM
Ambushed by SAMs (王濤被飛彈偷襲)
On December 1, 1969, three Surface-to-Air Missiles (SAMs) were fired, mostly likely from this island, in an attempt to shoot down the U-2R piloted by Tom Wang. Wang took evasive actions immediately…
Spike Chuang’s Close Encounter with SAMs
A personal message I received the other day prompted me to look into the U-2 missions flown by Spike Jen-Liang Chuang (莊人亮). Although it is widely known that he had been shot…
Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (or Shuang Cheng Tzu Missile Center)
Bryan asked about the installation northeast of China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉衛星發射中心) in the post about Chinese replica of CCK AFB. Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, aka Eastwind Space Campus (東風太空城), was…