In mid 1973, the US military recommended withdrawl of 47 F-5A from VNAF for repairs and treatment of heavy corrosions. By August, these aircraft were in storage at Bien Hoa. Heavy corrosion…
Category: Aircraft
F-5A/B Freedom Fighter (Part 1)
Among all the jet fighter ROCAF, the F-5A and F-5B are arguably the types that have drawn the least public attention. This is probably because they had never seen combat in their…
Early Photos of ROCAF P2V-7U （我國空軍P2V-7U早期的照片）
The above photo, taken on December 17, 1957, should be one of the very first photos of the P2V-7U (a.k.a. RB-69A) operated by ROCAF. The photo, despite the poor quality due to…
News Flash: F-5F Crashed in Chiayi County
An F-5F from the 737th TFW at Taitung AFB crashed in a rice paddy near Chiayi AFB at about 0730 hrs this morning. Of the two-men crew, Lt. Col. 周偉傑 was killed, while Lt….
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…
F-5E/F Instrument Panels
I was surprised by the number of viewers drawn by the post F-5’s New Paint Scheme?. It seems many people are still interested in this veteran aircraft. So I am posting some…
New Paint Scheme for F-5?
These two F-5E at CCK AFB have adopted IDF’s paint scheme on their nose sections. So is ROCAF unifying the paint scheme for its fighters? A closer look reveals that they…
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…
A Study of Installing 20-mm Cannons on HH-1H
In early 1976, AIDC was ordered to study the feasibility of installing 20-mm cannons on the HH-1H to convert it into a gunship. AIDC then studied the following three possible modifications: 1. Installed under…
RB-57D任務的空窗期
偶然發現，1959年RB-57D開始執行偵察任務後，從6月23日到10月1日，有三個月的空窗期，完全沒有出動。盧錫良先生在「高空間諜」這本書裡並沒有提到這個狀況。請問各位高手知道為什麼嗎？