http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/100121/1/1z6ix.html

21 January 2010:
Reportedly, ROCAF C-130 flew from Taiwan to Haiti, and refuelled in USA.
ROC MND (Ministry of National Defense) and MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) don’t confirm the report.
AIT (American Institute in Taiwan) claims it was a “Taiwanese transport plane”.

If true, this is the first time in 30+ years, a ROCAF plane crosses the Pacific and lands in the USA, after Taiwan and USA broke diplomatic relations.

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2009-12/28/content_19143240.htm

“Eyewitness to history looks back”

Global Times, December 28, 2009

Heavy Rain and Warm Breeze (Jin Yu Xu Feng) by former State Councilor and Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan, is such a book, revealing many inside stories. The book is illustrated with more than 100 photos of China’s foreign policy highlights during Tang’s 10 years as a senior diplomat and eyewitness to history-in-the-making.

These historic events include his efforts to rebuild sensitive Sino-Japanese relations, his four visits to the United Nations to try to prevent the imminent Iraq War, Sino-Russian negotiations in the border dispute over Heixiazi Island, the 1999 bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, and the China-US midair collision of two warplanes near Hainan Island in 2001.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20100115-00000569-yom-soci

15 January 2010:
Fuji Heavy Industries continues to sue the JMOD for 35 bil Yen.
In 2001, after the JMOD ordered 62 AH-64D for the JGSDF, Fuji paid Boeing, 42 bil Yen of license production fee for all 62 heloes.
By 2007, after Fuji was contracted for 10 heloes, the JMOD reduced the order from 62 to 13.
The JMOD has paid Fuji, only 7 bil Yen.
The per-unit-cost surged from 6 bil Yen to 8.3 bil Yen.

http://mil.news.sohu.com/20100119/n269677420.shtml

14 January 2010:
US Defense News reports the Bolivian defense minister announces Bolivia will buy six Chicom K-8s and ten Russian heloes. The Chicom planes cost US$ 58 mil, and are scheduled to deliver in 18 months.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2010-01/14/content_12807752.htm

The Chicom exports Z-9 attack heloes to Kenya.

On second thought, the F-5A/B models remind me: some on-line hobby shops sell decal sheets for aircraft models; and if this is a perfect world, ROCAF F-5A/B decal sheets might be out there. Albeit for quick evidence only, not for photo proof.

] Does anyone have any information on japans R&D fifth gen fighter?

Old news, but here’s a start:

http://www.asianaviation.com/issues/sept08.php

TRDI ATD-X Shinshin.

h ttp://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!.KIr8_yUEQNNnVB41BD7ldG1/photo?pid=1017

The caption says it’s scanned from the “Air Force of China” mag.

h ttp://tw.f14.yahoofs.com/myper/KIr8_yUEQNNnVB41BD7ldG1/blog/20061206072320445.jpg?TTA6lTLBrwBu1gO6

The leftmost 1214 is probably, reasonably 10529. Those of 1212, 1232, and 1244 are too blurry, even by my lazy standard. 8(
As I said before, Annoyance is my middle name. I’ll ask that blogger for you.

http://tw.info.search.yahoo.com/search/blog?ei=UTF-8&p=F-5A&searchtype=photo&blogsort=date&fr=blog

F-5A photos in Yahoo! Taiwan blogs.

http://tw.info.search.yahoo.com/search/blog?ei=UTF-8&p=F-5B&searchtype=photo&blogsort=date&fr=blog

F-5B photos in Yahoo! Taiwan blogs.

Instead of clicking the photo titles (blue) for those photos, click the album titles (grey) under the photo titles instead, for other vintage photos in those albums.

] In total, the ROCAF had around 95 F-5A and around 24 F-5B.

Small challenge. 8D