Sometimes you might get the impression I get far too much pleasure out of looking at Japanese and Vietnamese wrecked airplanes also. 8)

http://www.grafixnpix.com/wwii/5thaafp2.htm

“Shown below are photos of American aircraft, mostly B-25 Mitchell Bombers, and personnel in the 38th & 345th Bomber Groups of the 5th Army Air Force and the 42nd Bomber Group, 13th A.A.F. during World War Two. There are even a few shots of B-25s in the 5th AAF’s 3rd Attack Group. These photos tell a story. It is one of young men who left their homes and families in America to go to distant lands and fight, and die, for Freedom.”

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060318-00000047-jij-pol

2006.03.18:
JDA will choose FX, the F-4 replacement, from amongst six unspecified aircraft; and has sent capability requests to defense departments of France, UK, and USA.
Major capability conditions include maintaining Japan-US inter-operability.
In middle 2006, send JDA teams to Europe and USA.
Between 2005-2009, acquire seven FX.
From 2008, F-4 begins to retire. 8(

Photos of accidents, crashes, and wrecks.

USAAF, WWII. German emigrants.

(This was three years ago. Any exciting recent news about 170 and her sis?)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/950119/posts

“RED CHINA LAUNCHES FIRST HOMEMADE AEGIS DESTROYER”
AFPC China Reform Monitor ^ | July 21, 2003 | Al Santoli, ed.

Posted on 07/21/2003 3:29:31 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Communist China’s first locally produced “Aegis” Destroyer was launched in Shanghai, the Hong Kong Tai Yang Bao reports. The warship is designed to be equipped with an advanced radar system, stealth design, a vertical launch system, and long-range anti-aircraft missiles to fill in for the Red Chinese Navy’s gaps in launching seaborne long- and medium-range antiaircraft attacks. It is expected that the destroyer will be officially integrated into the South Sea Fleet three to five years from now. The development of the destroyer indicates that Communist China has made far reaching progress in shipbuilding technology over the past 20 years, as the Red Chinese Navy is moving towards the stage of building itself into a blue water oceanic fleet. The homemade “Aegis” destroyers may not be operational before 2005 because verification of the destroyers’ current computer integrated technology capability – specifically the ability to process a huge amount of signals needed to meet the needs of the phased-array radar systems – has yet to be completed.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20060317-00000111-mailo-l11

2006.03.17:
One T-1B becomes permanent static display at Tokorozawa Aviation Museum, Tokorozawa City, Dasaitama Prefecture,
http://tam-web.jsf.or.jp/cont/index.htm
from 19 March 2006.
66 T-1 series were built, including prototype built in 1957. None crashed.
T-1A has foreign engine. T-1B has domestic engine. 23 T-1B were built.

This T-1B retired at Komaki AB, Aichi Prefecture. Stored at Hamamatsu AB, Shizuoka Prefecture.
On 18 March, moved into museum and assembled.
On 19 March, at 10:30, opening ceremony.