{"id":489,"date":"2009-07-12T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T08:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2009-07-12T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T08:47:08","slug":"last-overflight-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Last Overflight of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/last_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After six years of operations, Detachment H ended the U-2 overflight of Chinese territory in March 1968, as recorded in CIA&#8217;s <i>OSA Chronology<\/i>.  The last overflight mission was coded C058C and flown by Andy Fan (\u8303\u9d3b\u68e3):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/last_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The track below shows that the mission covered Yunan (\u96f2\u5357) Province of Southern China.  Since the mission lasted only 4+40 hours, the flight could not have been launched from Taiwan.  It was very likely to have originated from Thailand.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/last_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After C058C, Detachment H flew another ELINT mission in May and then the US government ordered it to stand down, as shown in the following July 1968 document:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/last_4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The stand-down order was finally lifted in October 1968.  But all flights since then were not allowed to enter Chinese mainland and had to keep a minimum distance of 20 nautical miles.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/last_5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Later we shall see more and more stand-down orders came from the US for political reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six years of operations, Detachment H ended the U-2 overflight of Chinese territory in March 1968, as recorded in CIA&#8217;s OSA Chronology. The last overflight mission was coded C058C and flown&#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":[42,143,99,44,41,142,43],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-history","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-andy-fan","tag-cia","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-142","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}