{"id":280,"date":"2008-12-28T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-08-13T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:51:05","slug":"2009-aviation-open-house-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"2009 Aviation Open House Schedule (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/open.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Bryan C for posting the newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=263#comment-112802\" target=_blank>2009 open house schedule<\/a>.  Now that Taiwan government has downgraded itself to the Regioanl Administration level, the <del datetime=\"2008-12-28T03:13:48+00:00\">Ministry of National Defense<\/del> Regional Defense Office <b>appropriately<\/b> scaled back the 2009 open house program in order not to provoke the boss across the Taiwan Strait.  I also noticed in the news release that all of the official numerical designations of the military units had been removed.  (For comparison, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=195#comment-69227\" target=_blank>2008 open house schedule<\/a>.)  Is this a sign?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for those who do not understand Chinese, here is the 2009 <b>Aviation<\/b> Open House schedule in English, with official designations of the respective units:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 28 (Thu): Naval Aviation Command, Taoyuan Base\n<li>June 27 (Sat): ROCAF Makung Air Base Service, Makung Air Base\n<li><del>August 14 (Fri): ROCAF 401st Composite Wing, Hualien AFB<\/del> (Cancelled)\n<li><del>August 15 &#038; 16 (Sat &#038; Sun): TADTE 2009, Sungshan AFB<\/del> (Cancelled)\n<li><del>August 22 (Sat): ROCAF Academy, Kangshan<\/del> (Cancelled)\n<li><del>September 12 (Sat): ROCAF 427th Fighter Wing, Ching Chuan Kang AFB<\/del> (Cancelled)\n<li>November 14 (Sat): Army 602nd Aviation Brigade, Hsinsher Army Aviation Base\n<li>November 28 (Sat): Army 601st Aviation Brigade, Lungtan Army Aviation Base\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two words: it sucks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,18],"tags":[59,49],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info","category-military-bases","tag-openhouse","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}