{"id":48,"date":"2006-05-03T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T07:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2006-05-03T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T07:27:37","slug":"rf-101c-in-rocaf-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"RF-101C in ROCAF Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quite a few years ago, a USAF veteran, Roy Colding, told me that his unit, the 45th TRS, had loaned four RF-101C to ROCAF.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I lost the original message.\u00a0 Today I asked him to tell the story again:<\/p>\n

The four RF-101C’s were from the 45th TRS at Misawa, Japan and this was in the summer of 1962.On the way down to Taiwan we stopped at Kadena AB, Okinawa and painted out all USAF markings and added ROC markings.The base in Taiwan was CCK if I remember correctly\u00a0[Note by Wei-Bin: should be Taoyuan]<\/strong> Our pilots were disapointed when they were\u00a0 told that they could not fly over the mainland. The few RF-101A models that were on the flight line were in pretty bad shape and that was the reason we were down there to help out by “loaning” our aircraft to the ROC.<\/p>\n

There was a U-2 just down the flight line from us.<\/p>\n

I was assigned approximately 125 Camera Repairman and one interpreter, a warrant officer with a duck tail haircut and taps on his shoes, thats him on the upper left hand of the picture I\u00a0 sent. My first job was to explain how to torque the nose of the aircraft when\u00a0 it had been opened.I demonstrated the use of the torque wrench and how to set it at 80psi and not to overtorque it. The warrant officer said they understood. We left them\u00a0 and started down the flight line. About 50 yards away I looked back and saw them using the torque wrench to “chin” them selves(grab the wrench and pull themselves up until their feet came off of the ground). This had been the way they had been doing it ever since they had the RF-101A’s and had not a case of a nose coming loose.<\/p>\n

I would assume that the reason there is no paper trail showing we were there was the classification at the time, along with the U-2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During his tour at Taoyuan, Roy had a picture taken with members from ROCAF’s Photo Technical Squadron.\u00a0 Do you know anybody in this photo?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Roy
\nRoy is second from left in the front row. (Courtesy of Roy Colding)<\/center>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Roy
\nRoy (left) working on RF-101C’s cameras.\u00a0 (Courtesy of Roy Colding)<\/center>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


\nThe famous Polka Dots RF-101C of the 45th TRS.\u00a0 (Courtesy of Roy Colding)<\/center>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Close-up
\nThe serial number seems to be 60048, which belongs to an RF-101C.\u00a0 (Courtesy of Roy Colding)<\/center>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since there is no official declassified documents showing that ROCAF had operated RF-101C, I would appreciate if anybody could provide\u00a0photos or other information.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quite a few years ago, a USAF veteran, Roy Colding, told me that his unit, the 45th TRS, had loaned four RF-101C to ROCAF.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I lost the original message.\u00a0 Today I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rf-101"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","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=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}