Don Chanhttp://www.asagumo-news.com/news/201004/100401/10040109.htm
24-25 March 2010:
RQ-4 Global Hawk. 042015.
USAF.
Ground display in Toukyou.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100324-00000017-maip-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100324-00000080-mai-soci
24 March 2010:
Global Hawk.
USAF.
1:1 model displayed in Toukyou.
Real Global Hawk costs 30 million USD, or 2.7 billion Yen.
If stationed at Ioujima, after three hours flight, reaches Senkaku Islands [sic] or Korean Peninsula.
Don Chanhttp://china-defense.blogspot.com/2010/03/j-10-down.html
“J-10 Down.”
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
[Humour ON]
Either Photoshopped, or that 1:1 model maker based in Cheng Du again?
[Humour OFF]
Those neon yellow serial numbers are a pain in the ****. 8(
Don Chan(Off-topic alert.)
] I’m sure someone here can speak Japanese !
(Disengage lurking device.)
First, Google Translate
http://translate.google.com/#
is your friend.
The “profile” page of a blog may show the blogger’s e-mail address, but to prevent spam, most bloggers don’t show it.
] ttp://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ktbmwm3/GALLERY/gallery.html?fid=0&p=1
Tsubasa’s profile. No apparently e-mail address.
Blog guestbook
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ktbmwm3/MYBLOG/guest.html
apparently needs a Yahoo! Japan ID.
OTOH, replying to the blog article, by clicking the orange words “[+] Comment (10)”
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ktbmwm3/32950689.html
apparently doesn’t need a Yahoo! Japan ID.
] ttp://blog.livedoor.jp/mumbo122/archives/1045466.html
http://profile.livedoor.com/mumbo122/
Jun’s profile. No apparently e-mail address, but has a mail form,
http://member.livedoor.com/login/?.next=http%3A%2F%2Fprofile.livedoor.com%2Fmumbo122%2F&.sv=profile
which needs a Livedoor ID that I don’t have.
OTOH, replying to the blog article
http://blog.livedoor.jp/mumbo122/archives/1671165.html#comments
apparently doesn’t need a Livedoor ID.
(Engage lurking device.)
Don Chan28 January 2010:
Probably Tu-95.
Probably Russian AF.
1:04 PM, ROCAF radar site at Yang Ming Mountain detected a bogey that approached Taiwanese ADIZ, at 320 knots, 154 NM to the northeast. SAMs were raised to five minutes alert.
1:15 PM, it entered Taiwanese ADIZ. Hua Lien AB had fighters at six minutes alert, but weren’t scrambled.
It approached from the northeast, and flew south. ROCAF warned it on the 243.0 MHz international emergency communications channel, and the bogey bugged out, towards the Ryuukyuus.
On 23 March 2010, ROCAF confirmed this event to reporters.
In 1984, a Soviet Tu-95 entered Taiwanese ADIZ to the east, and ROCAF fighters scrambled, intercepted, and escorted it out of Taiwanese ADIZ.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100323/1/22k32.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100323/5/22k1n.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100323/17/22jxs.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100323/58/22k1a.html
Don Chanhttp://211.89.225.4:82/gate/big5/www.cnr.cn/junshi/zgjd/kj/200912/t20091205_505715394.html
4 December 2009:
Afternoon, ceremony where Chairman GAO Yan Ming of HOSCO Group
http://www.hoscogroup.com/en/html/
donates a retired RAF Spitfire to the Chinese Aviation Museum, in Red China.
Numbered “TE330”, the RAF gave it to the USAF, and it displayed at an USAF museum for 38 years. Later, that museum got two more Spitfires, so it was for sale.
In 1996, an Hong Kong businessman, James Slade, bought it, and in 1997, sent it to Don Subritzky in New Zealand, for restoration.
In 1999, the Subritzky family bought it, then auctioned it.
In September 2008, Gao bought it for US$ 2.15 mil.
It joins the 40+ planes of 20+ types of WWII planes already at the museum: La-9, Mosquito, P-40, P-51, &c.
Other foreign types include: F-104, F-86, and Mirage III, from Italian AF and Pakistani AF.
Overall, the museum has 309 planes of 225 types.
(IMO, “Achtung, Spitfire!”) 8D
Don Chan] omg, why?
Why ask why? Drink Canada Dry!
Seriously, I’ve been trying to find the original article in Chinese from which this English article is translated, but no joy. 8(
Don Chanhttp://club.mil.news.sohu.com/r-shilin-2825779-0-8-900.html
“2010-03-18 15:46:06”
Farmer in rural Hu Lu Dao City, Liao Ning Province, is selling a retired H-5, without engines and weapons, that he bought in 2008.
Don Chan“China Says U.S. Wouldn’t Sell Helicopter Parts Needed in Relief”
March 21, 2010, 6:22 AM EDT
March 21 (Bloomberg) — China was forced to buy helicopter parts needed for rescue work after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake from Russia because of U.S. restrictions on technology exports, the country’s commerce minister said today.
Chen Deming said he contacted the U.S. Commerce Department on buying helicopter engines to aid rescue efforts after the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, but was told to wait for permission from the defense ministry. He never heard back, and China bought Russian engines instead.
Don Chanhttp://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1126
“Boeing Completes Preliminary Design of Free Electron Laser Weapon System”
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 18, 2010 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has successfully completed the preliminary design of the U.S. Navy’s Free Electron Laser (FEL) weapon system, a key step toward building a FEL prototype for realistic tests at sea.
‘Star Trek-style force-field armour being developed by military scientists
A space-age “force field” capable of protecting armoured vehicles and tanks by repelling incoming fire is being developed by British military scientists.’
Published: 2:08PM GMT 20 Mar 2010
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
(IMO: “Shields up, Captain?”)
Don ChanThe paragraph that mentions the engines:
“AC313 type aircraft is a typical single main rotor helicopter with tail rotor, side by side two pilots configuration, equipped with three turboshaft engines, front three-point non-retractable landing gear. AC313 helicopter uses composite ball flexible rotor system, engine full authority digital electronic adjust control, large area composite structures, integrated avionics systems, digital design and manufacturing, and the latest airworthiness safety standards as a symbol, to achieve national large size transport helicopters overall technical level, from the second generation to third generation leap.”
http://www.hudong.com/wiki/AC313%E7%9B%B4%E5%8D%87%E6%9C%BA
doesn’t have the parameters of the engines yet.
Don Chanhttp://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/03/15/189s556820.htm
“PLA Extends Pilot Training to High Schools”
2010-03-15 22:41:30 Xinhua Web Editor: Jiang Aitao
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has launched a program to train talented high school students as pilots, military sources said on Monday.
The qualified students should have no criminal record and no girlfriends, according to the regulation.
Don Chanhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Is_Yesterday
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/John_Christopher
Without that USAF F-104 pilot, Capt Christopher, and his son, there could’ve been no Star Fleet, and no Capt Kirk.
At least maybe not in the canon ST:TOS universe.
Don Chanhttp://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?articleid=2010031618342194070&linkid=4&newssetid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?articleid=2010031614425010080&linkid=4&newssetid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?articleid=2010031614370798280&linkid=4&newssetid=1352
16 March 2010:
Seems to ROKAF F-5s are transported as ground displays by road to somewhere in Gwang Ju City, South Korea.
The SEA camo one is #123.
Don’t know the white one.
16 March 2010:
Seems ROKAF Chief of Staff flies or rides a F-5, maybe to raise morale.
Don Chan] This is a very late posting concerning F-104C, 57-0926.
“Fascinating, Captain.”
Seriously, thanks much for the info, dude. FWIW, I’m a voluntary contributor to the International F-104 Society site, at
http://i-f-s.nl/index.htm
Don Chan24 March 2010:
Fokker 50. FK-5003.
ROCAF.
11:48, at Kao Hsiung Xiao Gang AP, attempted take-off.
11:52, malfunction, warning light, and aborted take-off.
11:58, again attempted take-off.
12:02, same malfunction, warning light, and aborted take-off.
Passengers were Executive Yuan Premier WU Den Yih and his staff. Returning from a job fair activity at Kao Hsiung to Taipei.
They took the high-speed train instead.
5003 is 18 years old, one of three received at their factory in April 1992. Flight time is 7,381 hours.
Previous inspection is on 19 March 2010. Flew for only 2:40 after inspection. This is second flight after inspection.
4:30 PM, the ROCAF at a press con, explains the “exterior warning light” has six causes: elevator trim is not fixed in position; rudder trim is not fixed in position; parking brake in the ON position; flaps not in take-off position; engines status select panel not in take-off or re-fly mode; auto smooth propeller system not in operation position.
Hua Xin Airlines (Mandarin Airlines)
http://www.mandarin-airlines.com/index.html
is the last Taiwanese organisation to fly the Fokker 50, after 13 years of service. On 31 May 2008, the last flight was from Ma Kung to Tai Chung, and landed at 5:10 PM, at CCK AP.
On 10 June 2008, ferried to Australia. Hua Xin owned up to seven Fokker 50s.
WRT air forces, Singapore AF has four Fokker 50s. Royal Netherlands AF has stretched Fokker 60s.
Worse, Fokker closed in 1996.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100325/4/22obj.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100324/5/22nup.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100324/5/22nut.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100325/11/22opv.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100324/69/22nwn.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100325/78/22ogk.html
(IMO: SNAFU, but the ROCAF reacts uncharacteristically fast, maybe because the Fokker 50s are tasked with presidential flights.)
] 16 July 2008:
] AH-1W. 515, also 164927.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100315/1/2225k.html
Friday, 2010.03.15:
ROCA Command announced the accident cause as the EECU of engine #2 malfunctioned, the pilots couldn’t recover in time, and the helo crashed.
(EECU is probably “engine electronic control unit”.)
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