{"id":1130,"date":"2010-07-25T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T03:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2010-07-25T11:11:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T03:11:21","slug":"airstrip-in-hukou-%e6%b9%96%e5%8f%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Airstrip in Hukou (\u6e56\u53e3)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=24.869578,121.046934&amp;spn=0.009286,0.021887&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;brcurrent=3,0x346830676ed52469:0xefc02bea1f342950,1,0x3468412ca1674fd5:0x4061145f0e1f1fc9&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=24.869578,121.046934&amp;spn=0.009286,0.021887&amp;t=h&amp;z=16&amp;brcurrent=3,0x346830676ed52469:0xefc02bea1f342950,1,0x3468412ca1674fd5:0x4061145f0e1f1fc9&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">\u6aa2\u8996\u8f03\u5927\u7684\u5730\u5716<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>This image from Google Maps shows the troop review ground at the base of ROC Army 542nd Armored Brigade in Hukou Township (\u6e56\u53e3\u9109), Hsinchu County.  I am not sure about the time when the concrete drill ground was built.  Forty years ago this place was mostly dirt as shown in the 1966 CORONA satellite image below.  But there appeared to be a paved airstrip in the middle (indicated by the blue arrow).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hukou_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1969 image below, the suspected airstrip appeared to have been widened, suggesting that it might be active at the time.  There is also what might be an apron next to the middle section.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/hukou_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anybody has more information?  Was it from the Japanese colonial era?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u6aa2\u8996\u8f03\u5927\u7684\u5730\u5716 This image from Google Maps shows the troop review ground at the base of ROC Army 542nd Armored Brigade in Hukou Township (\u6e56\u53e3\u9109), Hsinchu County. I am not sure about the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,203],"tags":[293,139,48,273,274],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-satellite-imagery","tag-542nd-armored-brigade","tag-corona","tag-google","tag-kh-4a","tag-kh-4b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}