Just wondering: with the upcoming direct flights between China and Taiwan (which will critically wound the Hong Kong CLK IAP here), and as some airports are shared by civilian and military, doesn’t the PLAAF and ROCAF worry about espionage and intelligence risks at the shared airports?
(Such as fine-tuning GPS coordinates for targetting SSMs.)

Or is this already compromised, decades ago, with the advance of high-definition satellite imagery?

] thats a great front shot

Front shots are IMO boring. Can’t read its squadron code and serial number.

This may explain why I was puzzled when, just a day or two after the 5.12 earthquake, the radio/TV news reported squads of “PLAAF radar operators” (not PLA or WJ infantry) were delivered to remote villages amongst the mountains, to assess the damage at said villages, while hundreds of WJ grunts were mobilised and long-marched to the remote villages on foot.

PLAAF Il-76s and civilian cargo/passenger planes were drafted to deliver supplies to the civilian and military airports in and about Cheng Du, plus Romanian AF, Russian AF, and USAF (but not JASDF) transport planes.

Then, about a hundred civilian and military heloes delivered the people and supplies to the villages. Mostly Mi-171s, S-70s, Super Pumas (HKGFS and others), Z-8s, Z-11s, and only one single Mi-26 with Russian pilots (tasked with hauling dozens of bulldozers).

(BTW, personally, I don’t oppose the proposal for sending JASDF transports to Si Chuan. JMSDF and PLAN warships are visiting each other’s ports, and Jap civilian rescue teams have already worked in Si Chuan. 8D
OTOH, I’d oppose JASDF attack heloes or fighters = offensive weapons coming to China, such as for an air show.)

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8341425_1.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8341425.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8340850.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8340597.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8339540.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/10/content_8338843.htm

The deceased crew members’ photos and profiles. <(T_T)

On 10 June 2008, about 10:55, the wreck was found in a jungle in a valley. Phuck.
Heloes couldn’t land at or near the crash site, so ground teams yomped there to recover the bodies.

(IMO, with a Senior Colonel as pilot and a Colonel as flight engineer, reminds me of Star Trek: if not the USS Enterprise with Admiral, Captains, and Commanders as her bridge crew, then at least the borrowed Bird of Prey with the same elite crew.)

http://youtubech.com/watch/WZ-10/FefbCfosLd8

Reportedly a 12 seconds video of WZ-10.

http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/084/84244/index.html

Decals, by MYK Design, for 1:144 model kits of F-22A.

http://www.myk-design.com/tank/144/144f22_kadena.html

“Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor ‘Kadena Air Base'” has markings and serial numbers for the 12 USAF F-22A that temporarily deployed to Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture, in 2007.

[Will someone verify the serial numbers?]

http://www.myk-design.com/tank/144/144f22_jasdf.html

“F-22 Raptor ‘JASDF'” has markings and serial numbers for the JASDF F-22A (or its variant) of the 8th, 204th, 301st, and 302nd Hikoutai.

http://www.myk-design.com/tank/e_products.html#144a
http://www.myk-design.com/tank/e_products.html#144vw
do not seem to have JASDF F-2 or USAF F-16, but have some JASDF F-104J.

http://www.myk-design.com/tank/144/144f104_1.html
has some JASDF F-104J:

36-8532, 205th Hikoutai, 6th Koukuudan
36-8538, 207th Hikoutai, 7th Koukuudan
46-8635, 207th Hikoutai, 83rd Koukuutai
46-8648, 204th Hikoutai, 5th Koukuudan
46-8657, 205th Hikoutai, 6th Koukuudan

http://www.myk-design.com/tank/144/144f104_2.html
has some JASDF F-104J:

36-8510, 201st Hikoutai, 2nd Koukuudan
76-8573, 206th Hikoutai, 7th Koukuudan
56-8672, 203rd Hikoutai, 2nd Koukuudan
76-3682 [UF-104JA], Ioujima [Iwo Jima] UAV Squadron
76-8710, 202nd Hiktouai, 5th Koukuudan

http://www.toonippo.co.jp/news_too/nto2008/20080517142057.asp

“Friday Tour” bus tours into Misawa USAF AB, to commemorate 50th anniversary of Misawa City becoming a city.
One tour per month. 30 tourists per tour. Deadline for applications: 10 days before tour. Free of charge.
About one hour. Drive through non-Japanese neighbourhood in AB.
Stop at one or two spots for memorial photos. This year, new spots: aircraft hangar, amusement park, others.

http://www.daily-tohoku.co.jp/news/2008/06/01/new08060108top.htm
http://www.toonippo.co.jp/news_too/nto2008/20080531110028.asp
http://saron-kinyoubi.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2007/04/post_943e.html

On 2008.05.30, “Friday Tour” bus tour into Misawa USAF AB.
Special stop at hangar with a parked F-16 and practice bombs.
Tour guide(s) included Lieutenant Colonel David Murphy, head of safety department, 35th FW, USAF.

http://www.atv.jp/admin/uimg/admin7/localnews5843_2.jpg

Video:
Before the article expires, in
http://www.atv.jp/news/
look for the movie camera button above this photo:
http://www.atv.jp/admin/uimg/admin7/localnews5843_2.jpg

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/03/content_8306444.htm

3 June 2008:
Cheng Fei Group production lines for FC-1 and J-10 resume, five days after earthquake.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-06/03/content_8304914.htm

3 June 2008:
News article about a HKGFS Super Puma rescued two wounded miners in Si Chuan on 1 June 2008, but has no photo of the HKGFS Super Puma. >8(