] and no responses to my questions on the performance that the Starfighters team puts on….which should be a happy topic!

You probably meant these dudes:

http://www.starfighters.net/schedule/schedule.html

“Welcome to the internet home of the Starfighters Airshow Demonstration Team. Thanks for stopping

by.”

] Don Chan has this obsession to degrade and vilify any combat aircraft that has been used by the RoCAF and/or JASDF,

As I said before, as a Chinese, I’m obsessed, eh, interested in mostly the destruction, eh, attrition

of Japanese military hardware, but not of their real human drivers. 8(
I tend to hijack, eh, borrow a thread with a directly related topic, instead of beginning or

duplicating separate threads with the same topic.

] also posts general news about the ROCAF, JASDF and PLAAF,

Dude, your pay cheque is in the mail. 8)

] Frankly I am also deficient in both and I need his expertise and contributions to this board.

Seriously, nowadays I translate and post only the major accident news in this forum, such as the facts

of the JGSDF and ROCA helo crashes in the past two weeks.
I e-mail the minor accident news to the editors of a few mags and news sites.
I might… clarify the… “fun” of this… “hobby” in the other “Photos of Wrecks” thread…

Don “As I said before, I never repeat myself” Chan

http://students.washington.edu/nut12345/uploader/Upload%20folder/upload998.zip
Text file written in Chinese.
ROCAF F-104 attritions list, in order of sub-type and serial number.

For some (gory) details of JASDF and ROCAF F-104 accidents/crashes, in
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/search.php?searchid=827818&pp=30
try the Accident Report threads WRT ROCAF accidents in Taiwan, and JASDF/USAF accidents in Japan.

Also, posts #50 to #51, #81, and #83 in this thread.
97 to 112 out of 247 ROCAF F-104s is… way gnarly.

> High up and under fine weather conditions like in Spain or Italy the F-104 did even had a better accident rate than most comparable fighter of those years.

Both JASDF and ROCAF flew the F-104 as fighter-interceptor.
The ROCAF F-104 dropped like flies, and martyred a heinous lot of pilots.
The accident rates of JASDF one-engine fighters – the F-86D/F and F-104J/DJ – plus the USAF/USMC/USN fighters in Japan, especially when they crashed in cities, also convinced the JASDF to choose a two-engine fighter for their next two F-X: F-4E and F-15C.

The 1980s JASDF also wanted a two-engine fighter for their FS-X, but we all know how the (then) new Bush I administration re-negotiated the FS-X contract.
(IMO, I miss the Japan-bashing 1980s, when China and NATO were overtly more friendly. Sigh.) 8D

10 September 1974:
F-104J. 46-8651.
207th Hikoutai, 83rd Koukuutai, Nansei Koukuu Konseidan, JASDF, based at Naha AB, Okinawa Prefecture.
After night training, while landing at Naha AB, Okinawa Island, crashed into ocean, about 28 km northwest of Naha AB.
Pilot killed. First Lieutenant [posthumous Captain] Ooya Katsuzou.

On 2 September 2006, Saturday, Ooya’s defense university (13th class) classmates and relatives attended his 33rd memorial service, at a Buddhist temple in his home town, Ooamishirasato Town, Sanbu County, central-eastern Chiba Prefecture.
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~airforce69ers/ohya33kaiki.html
His photo showed him in his twenties. His classmates could not imagine him in his sixties. Sad.

http://aswoc-at.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ALL%20F-104J.htm
http://kwne.jp/~eagle01/104.htm

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/engineering/article1633019.ece

“BAE in battle for $15bn fighter orders from India and Japan”

From The TimesApril 10, 2007
David Robertson and Leo Lewis

BAE Systems has entered a dogfight with the world’s leading makers of combat jets to secure orders from India and Japan worth up to $15 billion (£7.6 billion).

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/nnn/20070405/20070405-00000048-nnn-pol.html

Video news dated 5 April 2007.
JMOD requests USA to remove export ban on F-22, for as replacement of JASDF F-4.