I thought it was nice to see that the Chinese honor and remember the American vets who fought for their freedom.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2006/08/13/2003323002
“Founder of `Flying Tiger’ unit honored”
Sunday, Aug 13, 2006,Page 4
By Max Hirsch
STAFF REPORTER , IN HUALIEN
Sixty-five years ago, a group of young Americans boarded a Dutch packet and crossed the Pacific at the invitation of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Their passports identified them simply as teachers or farmers. If asked at the time, “Why in God’s name are you going to the Orient amid World War II?” they probably would have responded, “For sightseeing, of course.”
Rocket-assisted take-off?
JASDF
(Note: All URLs are in Japanese.)
Just for fun, the Japanese movie “Jetto F104 dasshutsu seyo”, literally “Jet F-104 Escape”, opened on 9 March 1968.
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=142359
http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1968/cr000520.htm
I did not watch this movie.
According to summaries at
http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/kinejun/index.cgi?ctl=each&id=22381
http://movie.goo.ne.jp/movies/PMVWKPD22381/comment.html
its story is:
The five protagonists, (family name first) Kaidu Shirou, Shinoda Masami, Satohara Kazuhiko, Sakamoto Saburou, and Tashiro Takao, are amongst the 90 students of an aviation school class. They began from learning to fly propeller aircraft.
After the first beginner’s class course, half of the class washed out.
After more ability examination and training at Ashiya AB, Sakamoto and two others were streamed to SAR aircraft. Three others were streamed to transport aircraft.
Kaidu and ten others were streamed to Hamamatsu AB, and learnt the T-33 and F-86F.
One snowy day, Sakamoto bought the farm while training in Shima Peninsula.
Kaidu, Shinoda, and Satohara deployed to Chitose AB for air combat training.
Unable to bear the severe training, Satohara resigned.
Amongst the five protagonists, only Kaidu and Shinoda deployed to Nyuutabaru AB, and learnt the front-line F-104.
One day, during manoeuvring, Kaidu had an abnormal situation. His decelerator malfunctioned. Worse, the runway at Itaduke AB was closed because of an accident. Eventually, Kaidu escaped from the crisis.
In the end, Kaidu and Shinoda were operationally assigned to Chitose AB.
At Amazon Japan, this movie has been out of stock.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00005IM9X/503-3143879-6736716?v=glance&n=561960&s=gateway
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00005GELU/503-3143879-6736716?v=glance&n=561960&s=gateway
I suppose the F-104 also guest-appeared in many Gamera, Gojira, and other Japanese giant monster movies.
JASDF
F-104DJ.
Ayameike Amusement Park, Nara Prefecture.
1978 (Shouwa 53).
Borrowed from a Jap blog.
http://www.ryositu-house.net/archives/006_/610_/index.php
] (and the wise cracks….lol).
Dude, you’re no fun. I expected flame.
Anyway. While researching on-line data of JASDF and ROCAF F-104 attritions, seen a few photos of scrapped JASDF F-104J wrecks, but haven’t seen any accident photos of JASDF or ROCAF F-104 crashes/wrecks.
Correct me if I’m wrong: excluding the target drones, seems practically all JASDF and ROCAF F-104 losses and fatalities were peace-time, not combat. Sigh.
E-767 Jr, 505.
Sign reads: Please beware of jet exhaust.
WWII
WWII. Imperial Japanese. Captured bomber and look-alikes.
] Don Chan? Taiwanese Zippers.
Try
http://www.916-starfighter.de/main.htm
http://www.916-starfighter.de/links.htm
and
http://www.starfighters.nl/Int_f104_society/
I’ve been spamming to them Oriental F-104 attritions data that I didn’t post in this thread.
] I want Zippers and lots of ’em.
Try
http://www.nyk.co.kr/index.html
http://www.zipper.com.hk/
http://www.zipper.com.tw/
http://www.zipper.jp/index.html
and so on.
They probably offer volume discounts.
] From Falkland war
Aircraft-wise, Pebble Island was a massa… an assassination.
Takamura Takahiro, who played Lieutenant Commander Fuchida Mitsuo, IJN, in Tora, Tora, Tora! (1970), passed away on 16 May 2006.
FWIW, the real Fuchida Mitsuo passed away on 20 May 1976. He was 74.
B&W
B&W
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1205082308316
Yahoo! Taiwan Knowledge article in Chinese.
Locations, types, and serial numbers of retired ROCAF F-104s in Taiwan. At Museums, parks, universities, &c.
JASDF
RF-4EJ. Artwork.
JASDF
C-1. Technically.
Photos of accidents, crashes, and wrecks.
[But that aircraft flew with that air force: B-29 clones in 1950s FSU AF.]
http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Mag/Index/2001/FM/TU-4.html
“Made in the U.S.S.R.”
by Von Hardesty
The first Soviet strategic bomber bears an amazing resemblance to the Boeing B-29. Even more amazing, when you know the story.