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…
Category: U-2
Two Lesser Known Blackcats
The above document is rare in that the US government officials forgot to black out two personal names: Tom and Eddie, which refer to Tom Hwang (黃榮北) and Eddie Chou (鄒燕錦), respectively….
Last Blackcat Candidates
If you have paid attention to the history of the 35th Squadron, then you probably know that Chris I (易志強) and Mory Tsai (蔡盛雄) were the last two ROCAF pilots who completed…
再談梁德培
航空史研究專家傅鏡平先生熱心提供我「空軍將士忠烈錄」關於梁德培的部分，對於他在空軍服役的經過有較多的敘述，： 傅鏡平提供 不過最後一段提到「烈士奉命駕機飛往大陸匪區，執行空照任務，返航途中失事墜海殉職」的文字卻大有問題。當天梁德培飛的是訓練任務，而非偵照任務，CIA的內部文件OSA Chronology有以下記述： 日期差了一天，是因為時差 如果梁德培真的是在執行偵照任務，那麼CIA的任務表列中就會出現，但是並沒有： 這不能怪罪忠烈錄的作者，畢竟他應該也是照上級的說法來寫的。只是這個上級究竟知不知道梁德培飛的是什麼任務？
我的第一又十分之一本書
這是黑貓中隊的最後一任隊長王濤為了慶祝八十大壽而出版的口述回憶錄，對於他在美國接受U-2飛行訓練以及執行任務的過程有第一手的敘述，而且還有幾張我從未看過的U-2飛行照。小弟只是幫忙把王教官飛過的十九次任務資料稍作整理，放在附錄裡，篇幅佔全書的十分之一不到，所以號稱是第一又十分之一本書。 我手上有一小批這本書，有興趣的朋友也可以跟我聯繫。或是透過高手專業出版社購買，因為對外販售的數量極為有限（不到300本），所以欲購從速。
Target: North Korea
This is the flight track of mission GRC 128, flown by Hsichun Mike Hua (華錫鈞) on December 6, 1962. This mission is unique in many ways. It is not only the first…
Communist China, Now and Then
Here are selected U-2 imagery from 1964, when Johnny Wang (王錫爵) and Jack Chang (張立義), among others, were active U-2 pilots. I also provide current Google Earth shots of the coverted targets….
In God We Trust. All Others We Monitor.
Here are selected U-2 imagery of Chinese military bases. Google Earth users may want to download the associated kmz file to see what these bases look like now. Please save the file…
David Lee’s Ground Looping Incident
You probably have seen the U-2 ground-loop video in my last post. Here are the photos taken after David Lee (李伯偉) ground looped U-2R 057 on November 13 (I wonder if it…
U-2 Landings Video
I was privileged to see U-2 landing twice but neither came close to those in this video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eamnTyfkUBY