{"id":149,"date":"2007-05-31T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T23:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2009-05-24T10:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T02:26:05","slug":"u-2-article-378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"U-2 Article 378"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/article378.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lu asked if Article 378, the one shot down by the Chinese on September 9, 1962,\u00a0was a U-2A or a U-2C.\u00a0 But you might ask: What does this NASA photo have to do with Project Razor (Idealist\/Tackle)?\u00a0 Well, the aircraft in the photo is Article 378.\u00a0 After Powers was shot down over Soviet Union, the US government hastily painted Article 378 in NASA markings with a fictional tail number 55741 and arranged a photo op for the press on May 6, 1960.\u00a0 At that time, 378 was a U-2A.\u00a0 Though it was built under a USAF contract and thus had a USAF serial number, CIA was obviously its user.<\/p>\n<p>In February 1962, 378 completed IRAN at Lockheed and became a U-2C.\u00a0 It arrived at &#8220;Detachment H&#8221; on March 31, 1962.\u00a0 The following is part of its maintenance history, compiled shortly after its loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/article378_log.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lu also asked about 378&#8217;s markings on its final flight.\u00a0 I personally doubt anyone in Taiwan\u00a0can provide\u00a0documented evidence about its markings since the whole operation was still very secretive at the time of its shootdown.\u00a0 But I wish I were wrong this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Lu asked if Article 378, the one shot down by the Chinese on September 9, 1962,\u00a0was a U-2A or a U-2C.\u00a0 But you might ask: What does this NASA photo have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,5],"tags":[44,41],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-history","category-u-2","tag-tackle","tag-u2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}