{"id":306,"date":"2009-05-16T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-05-24T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:33:25","slug":"more-historical-rf-101-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"More Historical RF-101 Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rf101_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/br>RF-101A 54-1503 over Shaw AFB, ca. 1957. (USAF photo courtesy of The Recce Reader, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacrecce.org\/\" target=_blank>TAC Recce Reunion Assn. Inc.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft in the above photo, though in USAF markings then, was later transferred to Taiwan and served in ROCAF as 652 (or 5652).  The following photo, taken on an unknown date, shows 652, 656, and other RF-101.   5652 was returned to the US some years later.  Now its nose section lies in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill.af.mil\/library\/factsheets\/factsheet.asp?id=5771\" target=_blank>Hill Aerospace Museum<\/a>, waiting for restoration.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rf101_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RF-101 656 was later recoded 5656.  The next photo was taken in 1964, when six USAF RF-101C, flown by Butterfield, O&#8217;meara, Morris, Boyd, Dault, and McCord, respectively, visited Taoyuan.  They were escorted by 5656 and another ROCAF RF-101 (maybe the one whose nose was sticking out in the left part of the photo).  The photo was provided by one of the USAF pilots, Gene Morris.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rf101_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/br>Photo via Gene Morris.<\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, you can see that the afterburner section of RF-101C is shorter than that of 5656, an RF-101A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RF-101A 54-1503 over Shaw AFB, ca. 1957. (USAF photo courtesy of The Recce Reader, TAC Recce Reunion Assn. Inc.) The aircraft in the above photo, though in USAF markings then, was later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[64,45,62,63],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-rf-101","tag-hill-afb","tag-rf101","tag-shaw-afb","tag-taoyuan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}