Do you know who has completed helicopter training in ROCA TH-67A, went on to fly UH-1H, OH-58D, AH-1W, and even ROCN S-70C(M)-1, and received training in special operations? In the back-seat…
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Have You Counted Mantou?
While using the key word “Taiwan Army” to search aimlessly on the Internet, I found a page describing a book written by an American (actually a Taiwanese, read on). But this book…
34th Squadron’s Labs
The declassified document USAF Organization Maintenance Handbook: Hsin Chu Air Base, Taiwan 1957-58 contains many rare photos of the labs used by ROCAF 34th Squadron. I sent a copy to the veteran…
No Time to Blog
Lately I have been quite busy with work and family and there is really not much time for me to blog. Sorry to all the folks who check in regularly. I hope…
AH-1W Goes GPS
At this year’s openhouse at Kueijen Army Aviation Base, an AH-1W pilot pointed to a green fairing in front of the AH-1W’s windshield and, without being asked by anybody else, told everybody…
Been There. Done That.
四年前的九月,我寫的第一本書、也是目前唯一的一本書『無人飛機祕密檔案』由幼獅文化出版。這本書在第一年還賣了五百多本,之後銷售量便每下愈況。兩個星期前,收到去年七月到今年六月的版稅結算表,結果這一年內總共賣出了。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。兩本(我覺得這個統計數字應該不太正確,因為今年上半年我就自費買了三本送人:P)。還好當初我沒有被第一本書出版的喜悅沖昏了頭,立志當作家,要不然過去這一年不到一百塊的版稅是要怎樣讓我過活啊? 書剛出來的時候,有朋友問我有沒有打算再寫一本同樣題材的續集。但是很奇怪的,我不但不想寫續集,就連原先經常投給軍事雜誌的短篇文章也沒興趣再寫了。從那個時候開始,除了受人之託,把過去幾篇舊作稍加刪減、修訂後寄給航太工業通訊刊登之外,我只在軍事雜誌裡發表過一篇跟無人飛機有關的新文章。而事實上,那篇雖然是新作,卻也只是把寫書時蒐集到的資料再加以整理而已。對我來說,即便自己在這方面仍不算是專家,但也覺得了解得夠了,應該往下一個新的目的地(雖然我不知道是什麼、在哪裡)出發了,所以我沒有再回頭。 不過這幾年來,在研究U-2的過程中,也陸續發現了一些跟無人飛機有關的美國政府解密文件,只可惜寫書當時不知道有這些資料的存在。比如說,第三章「看不到也打不到」講的是美國的D-21「標籤板」(Tagboard)計畫,其中提到了1969年執行的第一次對中國偵察任務。下面這份文件就簡單的對這次任務作了個總結(按一下可以放大)。
The Most Updated Aviation Openhouse Schedule
According to the information posted on the Ministry of National Defense website on Sept. 26, there will be three aviaiton-related openhouses in October. But unfortunately they will be all held on the same…