{"id":294,"date":"2009-02-28T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T06:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-05-24T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:47:47","slug":"spike-chuangs-close-encounter-with-sams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Spike Chuang&#8217;s Close Encounter with SAMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sam_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A personal message I received the other day prompted me to look into the U-2 missions flown by Spike Jen-Liang Chuang (\u838a\u4eba\u4eae).  Although it is widely known that he had been shot at by Chinese surface-to-air missiles and narrowly escaped, I was surprised when I found the declassified records contain the image of the SAM taken by the camera onboard his U-2.  His &#8220;take&#8221; also included the image of an unidentified missile, shown below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sam_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Spike&#8217;s U-2 photographed a SAM site near Kunming (\u6606\u660e), though it was probably not the one that fired missiles at him:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/sam_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SAM site was located at 24.54N 102.33E.  Unfornately the high-resolution satellite image of this area is not yet available on Google Earth:<\/p>\n<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=24.541814,102.327776&amp;spn=0.037633,0.087547&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;brcurrent=3,0x346ef3065c07572f:0xe711f004bf9c5469&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJolRZ6myQibp1ZqH3Q2j5x3pVk2gA\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com.tw\/?ie=UTF8&amp;ll=24.541814,102.327776&amp;spn=0.037633,0.087547&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;brcurrent=3,0x346ef3065c07572f:0xe711f004bf9c5469&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">\u6aa2\u8996\u8f03\u5927\u7684\u5730\u5716<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal message I received the other day prompted me to look into the U-2 missions flown by Spike Jen-Liang Chuang (\u838a\u4eba\u4eae). Although it is widely known that he had been shot&#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":[42,48,88,86,44,41,87,43],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-google","tag-sam","tag-spike-chuang","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-87","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}