{"id":116,"date":"2007-01-21T13:21:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T05:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-01-21T13:21:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T05:21:08","slug":"color-photo-of-chinese-il-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Color Photo of Chinese Il-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/il28a.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On November 11, 1965, a Chinese Il-28 bomber, piloted by \u674e\u986f\u658c, defected to Taiwan and landed at Taoyuan AFB.\u00a0 Mr. Joseph Donoghue took the above photo about one week after the defection.\u00a0 This could be the earliest color photo of this aircraft ever made public.\u00a0 The person in green fatigues on the aircraft was a ROCAF intelligence officer while the others were Americans stationed at Taoyuan at that time.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/il28b.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Blowup of the photo clearly shows that the nose canopy was broken.\u00a0 The book <em>The Last Voodoo Pilot <\/em>by<em> <\/em><strong>Wings of China<\/strong> says that the nose gear was in the &#8220;Up&#8221; position when the Il-28 landed.\u00a0 But another witness gave a different account of what had happened than described in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 11, 1965, a Chinese Il-28 bomber, piloted by \u674e\u986f\u658c, defected to Taiwan and landed at Taoyuan AFB.\u00a0 Mr. Joseph Donoghue took the above photo about one week after the defection.\u00a0&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","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=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}