Taipei Air Station has some photos of ROCAF C-119, taken in 1958 while they were at Tainan AFB. These photos are unique in that they were taken shortly after these C-119 had…
Guam Photo Roundup (No Airplanes)
Both of our rooms at Hyatt Regency are very spacious and offer nice views of Tumon Bay. Actually, you can enjoy the ocean view while taking a bath: Looking down the pools…
關島度假賞機行
這幾年來真是越來越討厭春節,雖然一次可以放好幾天假,但是各地湧現的人潮和車潮卻總是讓好好的假期浪費在塞車和失望上,反而不能好好休息一下。所以此次老婆大人提議到關島過年,難得我馬上就爽快答應。 出發前我早就研究好我們住的凱悅飯店正面對安德森空軍基地的下滑道,此行的另一個願望就是希望可以看到B-52和剛剛才進駐的F-22,所以只要是沒出去的時候,我就會拿著相機坐在陽台上一方面欣賞泳池裡的比基尼美女,一方面等待返航的軍機(我的結論是,美女和軍機一樣難得)。在關島的最後一天早上,終於讓我拍到第一張軍機照片,而且正是我夢寐以求的B-52: 信不信由你,這是我第一次拍到飛行中的B-52,可惜距離實在太遠,所以效果不佳,不過可以辨識出是Minot空軍基地來的,而且還是聯隊長座機。 過了不久,又看到第二架B-52,這回距離稍近,光線也比較好一點,所以連拍了好幾張,可以看到起落架放下的過程: 莫非定律之賞機版:「飛機多半出現在身邊沒有相機的時候」。其實前一天在浮潛的時候就錯過了一架降落中的大型軍機(我是大近視眼,沒戴眼鏡就看不出是哪一型),最後一天也錯過了一架KC-10和兩架C-130。幸好還是捕捉到了一架KC-135R和海軍的MH-60S: 起初我以為這是一架HH-60或是SH-60。 回來比對後,才發現它是一架MH-60S。 這回終究是沒看到F-22。不過仔細想想,F-22的迴轉半徑遠小於大型軍機,應該不用繞到旅館區所在的杜夢灣,所以也只好再等下次了。
See Ya Later!
檢視較大的地圖 This is where I will be for the next few days. Hopefully I will be able to see some F-22 (for the first time, believe it or not) and B-52. I…
General Hsichun Hua, ROCAF (Ret.)
Via Col. Tom Wang One day in 1997, when my website (then called Military Aviation of ROC and hosted on my school’s server) had been up and running for about two years,…
Rare Footages of ROC Military From 1950s and 1960s
I found the following two footages of ROC military on the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s website. The first one shows the ROC and US Marines conducting joint amphibious exercise in…
2009 Aviation Open House Schedule (Updated)
Many thanks to Bryan C for posting the newly released 2009 open house schedule. Now that Taiwan government has downgraded itself to the Regioanl Administration level, the Ministry of National Defense Regional…
Season’s Greetings
That was from George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Of course, he did not write to me. It was part of the letter…
Penetrated by ChiCom?
Liberty Times reported on Dec 20 that Chinese agents in Taiwan might have been involved in pre-alerting the Chinese military of impending reconnaissance missions by reconnaissance-pod carrying ROCAF F-16. The paper said…
LIFE Magazine Photos: P-51 and P-47 Being Prepared for ROCAF
Click on these photos to go to the original Google pages with high-resolution images. It seems that these P-51 and P-47 were just taken out of storage before they would be repaired…