{"id":296,"date":"2009-03-06T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-05-24T09:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:46:30","slug":"david-lees-ground-looping-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"David Lee&#8217;s Ground Looping Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057photo_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You probably have seen the U-2 ground-loop video in my last post.  Here are the photos taken after David Lee (\u674e\u4f2f\u5049) ground looped U-2R 057 on November 13 (I wonder if it was a Friday), 1968, at North Base.  David had returned to the US to receive training for transition from the older U-2 model to the Romeo model.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057photo_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/br>Note the skid mark and the U-2R in the background.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057photo_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057photo_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057photo_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CIA has released many documents on this incident.  But I am only posting the statement made by the Operations Officer riding in the mobile vehicle that day, from which you can get a rough idea what happened.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/057statement.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Article 057 suffered only minor damage in this incident.  It was one of the two U-2R ferried to Taoyuan in early 1969 to replace the older model.  Unfortunately, it was destroyed in another landing accident, when Denny Huang (\u9ec3\u4e03\u8ce2) flew a training mission on November 24, 1970.  Article 057 had accumulated 355 flights and 1211.4 flight hours before it crashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have seen the U-2 ground-loop video in my last post. Here are the photos taken after David Lee (\u674e\u4f2f\u5049) ground looped U-2R 057 on November 13 (I wonder if it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31,6,5],"tags":[42,82,84,44,41,83,85,43],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-aircraft","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-david-lee","tag-denny-hwang","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-83","tag-85","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}