Don Chanhttp://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/trial/090330/trl0903301953015-n1.htm
30 March 2009:
USAF Lieutenant Colonel (45) fined and paid 200,000 Yen [about 2,200 USD] to Naha City court, for crashed his Cessna aircraft in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, on 24 October 2008.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090630-00000009-maip-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090630-00000009-maip-soci.view-000
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090630-00000031-mai-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090630-00000060-jij-soci
30 June 2009:
50th anniversary of the USAF F-100D (55-3633A, of 44th TFS, USAF, based at Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture) that crashed into the Miyamori Elemntary School in Ishikawa City, Okinawa Prefecture.
17 were killed, and 210 were wounded, most of whom were kids.
Pilot John Schmitz ejected and survived.
Don Chanhttp://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200906/090625/09062503.htm
On or about 25 June 2009:
Photo of two of four JASDF/TRDI UAV. #02 and #04.
Test-flew at Ioujima (Iwojima). Air-launched by F-15.
Stealthy. Length, 5.4 m. Infra-red and visible-light camera for real-time image of ground target.
Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090704-00000049-jij-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090704-00000001-ryu-oki
4 July 2009:
American Fest 2009, at Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture.
F-22A ground display to general public and reporters.
Above 28 other aircraft include A-10, F-16, and JASDF aircraft.
] Nice Stuff Don Chan
No problemo, dude. I track Jap military news, because they are an OPFOR. 8D
] Does it exsist any photos of JASDF intercepting Russian Bears or Tu-160?
These forums have a Search function up there; suggest you use it.
For example, try the “Japan says it was Tu-95 bomber that violated its air space” thread, at
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=78321
Don Chan] I don’t seem able to access the original site mentioned but from the
Actually, I don’t know, or haven’t tried to figure out, how/where to contact the Wiki editors, to contribute/share research resources. 8b
Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20090627-00000036-kyt-l26
27 June 2009:
Maiduru JMSDF AB, Kyouto Prefecture.
23rd Koukuutai, JMSDF, 8th anniversary ceremony. 300 citizens.
Four helicopters hovered and climbed.
Total 10 helicopters and 500 soldiers. The only JMSDF AB on Japan Sea side.
Don Chan] I heard in one case it was an F-5F and the guy in the backseat
(I kind of specialise in Chicom and ROC attritions…)
11 February 1989:
F-5E. 5120.
44th FS, 7th FG, 737th FW, ROCAF, based at Tao Yuan AB, Tao Yuan County. (Tai Tung AB?)
Defected to PRC, but couldn’t find Shan Tou AP, Guang Dong Province, due to fog.
About 10:00, ran out of fuel, and crashed/ditched, at a primary school sports ground, Tang Nan Town, Feng Shun County, Guang Dong Province.
One pilot bailed out/ejected, and landed in a farm. Major (Lieutenant Colonel?) LIN Hsien Shun (35). Ideological counsellor of his squadron. (Moron.)
11 February 1989 was sixth day of Chinese New Year.
Reportedly, he feared his wife was disloyal to him, and he couldn’t face his squadron-mates.
Although he was emotionally unstable and grounded, the air base personnel (from ground crew to runway guards) still allowed him to take off.
In the morning, he found a fuelled F-5E, waiting for its pilot, beside the runway. He told its ground crew he was flying it, and told them to hurry up.
Two minutes later, he took off.
Five minutes later, the correct pilot came to the runway, couldn’t find his aircraft, and alarmed the commanders.
By then, Lin had switched off his radio, flown to the Taiwan Strait, and dived to very low altitude, to avoid radars.
About 20 NM behind him, up to 12 ROCAF fighters diverted/scrambled from Tai Tung AB, &c, tried to intercept him, and were authorised to fire at will.
At least four PLAAF fighters scrambled to intercept the ROCAF fighters.
The ROCAF fighters withdrew after they crossed the centre-line of Taiwan Strait.
OTOH, after Lin switched on his radio, he couldn’t contact anyone in PRC. He loitered above Shan Tou for almost half an hour, but couldn’t find Shan Tou AP.
He loitered above Feng Shun County for about 17 minutes. No PLAAF fighter escorted/guided him, and no PLA air defense reacted.
Same night, a deputy commander of Guang Zhou military region came by helo, and met Lin.
Next day, they returned to Guang Zhou City, Guang Dong Province.
http://www.dajunshi.com/MilData/JunShi/China/200610/10020.htm
dated 26 October 2006, claims to be an interview (dated summer 2000) with Lin, who was living in Shi Jia Zhuang City, He Bei Province.
In October 1989, he was assigned to a PLAAF academy in Shi Jia Zhuang City, as deputy chief of staff.
Next year, promoted as Colonel.
In March 1991, he and his Taiwanese wife divorced.
On 24 May 1991, he and a radio show hostess at a Shi Jia Zhuang City radio station, married. Soon, they had a daughter.
By summer 2000, he was a vice principal at a PLAAF academy.
Lin’s most recent photo, in news articles dated 6 March 2008:
http://www.chinareviewnews.com/doc/1005/8/4/7/100584709.html?coluid=24&kindid=0&docid=100584709&mdate=0306141450
http://news.sina.com/tw/phoenixtv/101-102-101-103/2008-03-05/20202716291.html
Contemporary photos of 5120 debris at crash site:
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/jw!C5OWHc6VGx0wXcRKNzw-/article?mid=294
http://www.ettoday.com/2001/07/21/706-526714.htm
http://www.rocahc.org/memo/2.htm
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/06/07/139301
http://www.taiwanairpower.org/history/defection.html
http://blog.yam.com/ewarbirds/article/19089595
http://city.udn.com/1308/1086446?tpno=58&cate_no=0
http://ln.yeker.com/1/js/jsmw/20061128002.htm
http://nc.kl.edu.tw/bbs/archive/index.php/t-3081-p-28.html
8 August 1981:
F-5F. 5361.
17th FS, 5th FG, ROCAF, based at Tao Yuan AB, Tao Yuan County.
During training sortie to evaluate student pilot’s instrument flight skill, while flying near Ma Tsu Island, defected to PRC, and landed at Fu Zhou AP, Fu Jian Province, PRC.
One co-pilot ejected. Student pilot First Lieutenant HSU Chiu Lin (XU Qiu Lin).
One pilot didn’t eject. Instructor pilot Major HUANG Chih Chen (HUANG Zhi Cheng).
When aircraft arrived above Long Tian, Fu Jian Province, Hsu the back-seater learnt they were in PRC, and demanded they returned to Taiwan. Huang respected Xu’s choice, flew back to west of Tung Yin (Duan Yin) Island, and allowed Hsu to eject. Huang then flew to and landed at Fu Zhou AP.
Huang was awarded $650,000 (RMB?). In 1988, he was promoted as PLAAF Colonel.
His older brother was an engineer.
ROC Minister of Defense, KAO Kwei Yuan, resigned.
Military News Agency articles, dated 7-8 May 2007, at
http://mna.gpwb.gov.tw/mnanew/internet/NewsDetail.aspx?GUID=32847
http://news.gpwb.gov.tw/news.php?css=2&nid=15222&rtype=2
http://news.gpwb.gov.tw/news.php?css=2&nid=13904&rtype=2
mentions: Xu’s a Colonel and wing commander, after 27 years in the ROCAF.
Oldest of three sons. His mother was awarded for encouraging her sons to join the military.
According to
http://www.fightersalon.net/bbs/showthread.php?p=138357#post138357
as of October 2007, Colonel Xu was Commander, Training and Doctrine Command, ROCAF.
Huang’s contemporary and most recent photos, in news articles dated 6 March 2008:
http://big5.chinanews.com.cn:89/gate/big5/bbs.chinanews.com.cn/redirect.php?tid=106925&goto=newpost
http://mil.jschina.com.cn/Get/air/06032018587.htm
http://news.wenxuecity.com/messages/200803/news-big5-536928.html
http://61.135.142.194:89/gate/big5/bbs.chinanews.com.cn/thread-106925-2-1.html
http://www.dajunshi.com/MilData/JunShi/China/200610/10020.htm
http://www.rocahc.org/memo/8.htm
http://www.taiwanairpower.org/history/defection.html
http://blog.yam.com/ewarbirds/article/19089595
http://tt.mop.com/club/read_277345.html
http://tt.mop.com/backyard/read_159587.html
http://nc.kl.edu.tw/bbs/archive/index.php/t-3081-p-15.html
http://tw.knowledge.yahoo.com/question/?qid=1008030510518
Don ChanJust saw a model of the Nakajima G8N1 Renzan or “Rita”, by Hasegawa, at a model shop.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/g8n.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakajima_G8N
It wasn’t a captured B-17, but was an IJN land-based, long-range, heavy bomber with four engines (maybe inspired by captured B-17s, IMO).
Four air-worthy samples were built before the project ended, months before the war ended, and the fourth sample was tested by the Yanks, who later couldn’t find a museum to preserve it, and scrapped it instead. 8(
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0110662
1965/05/22:
USN F-111B rolled out.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0259061
1974/06/15:
USAF YF-17 Cobra test-flew.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0259481
1974/09/19:
USAF YF-16 and YF-17.
Don Chan] Thats quite surprising, I thought the US would have kept the aircraft flying for DACT purposes at least, stuck it in a museum somewhere or still kept it in one capacity or another.
Try the ‘The “But that aircraft never flew with that airforce”-picture thread’ thread next door,
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=26971
for more gory details about USAF MiGs, such as the MiG-21 Have Doughnut.
] If an Israeli pilot flew 150 meters behind the MiG-21 and slightly below it, the MiG pilot would never see his enemy.
OPFOR GCI would’ve warned the MiG driver, and friendlies would’ve to jam or suppress the OPFOR GCI.
] What ever happened to the aircraft and the pilot of the MiG-25 defection to Japan?
I happened to re-re-read some on-line Jap articles about it, and wrote some notes.
6 September 1976:
MiG-25P [Perekhvatchik or “Interceptor”] Foxbat A. 31 Red.
513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO), based at Sakharovka [Chuguyevka] AB, Primorsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.
13:50, Hakodate AP [HKD], Hokkaidou.
First Lieutenant Viktor Ivanovich Belenko.
Aircraft detained by Hokkaidou prefectural police, as evidence material of pilot’s illegal immigration and landing at civilian airport.
10 September:
Aircraft transferred to JDA.
25 September:
Aircraft transported to Hyakuri AB, Ibaraki Prefecture.
14 November:
Aircraft transferred to Soviet side.
15 November:
Aircraft on-board Soviet freighter Taigonos, and departed Hitachi Port, Ibaraki Prefecture.
http://www.clearing.mod.go.jp/hakusho_data/1977/w1977_04.html
http://www.mofa.go.jp/Mofaj/gaiko/bluebook/1977_1/s52-2-1-6.htm#k17
http://www.mofa.go.jp/Mofaj/gaiko/bluebook/1977_2/s52-shiryou-3.htm#a10
http://otuken.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2009/05/kgbmig-25-f367.html
http://timeline.nifty.com/portal/show/12307
Don Chanhttp://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0242230
Colour vid dated 1972/02/19.
[Humour ON]
ROCAF CIC visited three Chicom defectors and their families. LI Cai Wang (Il-28 0195 on 11 November 1965), LI Xian Bin (Il-28 0195 on 11 November 1965), and LIU Cheng Si (MiG-15 1765 on 3 March 1962).
(If I was a Chicom pilot, and I’d get money and women (or, money to buy women) when I defected to Taiwan, then I’d defect to Taiwan too.)
[Humour OFF]
Don Chanh ttp://http://www.gifu-np.co.jp/news/kennai/20090709/200907090834_8272.shtml
h ttp://http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/e-japan/gifu/news/20090709-OYT8T00154.htm
h ttp://http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/zoom/20090709-OYT9I00153.htm
8 July 2009:
F-15J. 02-8801, #801.
JASDF, based at Gifu AB, Gifu Prefecture.
Rescue exercise: fighter simulated hydraulics trouble that disabled brakes, and emergency landed with tail hook.
On runway, width 45 m metal wire stopped fighter landing at 270 km/h, after 300 m.
30 SDF soliders in nine ambulances and fire trucks extinguished simulated fuel leak, and rescued pilot.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/asdf-f-2-fighter-jet-swerves-off-runway-at-misawa
“ASDF F-2 fighter jet swerves off runway at Misawa”
Wednesday 24th June, 07:00 AM JST
The accident occurred at around 4:15 p.m. after an F-2 of the 3rd Air Wing based at Misawa landed on the runway amid strong crosswinds, it said. The injured pilot was identified as Maj Mikio Kobayashi. Maj Gen Hiroaki Maehara, commander of the air wing, was the other pilot aboard and was undergoing a training flight at the time, according to the ASDF. It was not immediately clear which pilot was landing the aircraft.
(Reminder: read the comments below that article.)
Don ChanCan’t read/understand Korean (OK, I’m not perfect).
Yahoo! South Korea news article dated 7 June 2009, in Korean.
Apparently a new non-fiction book about a father and a son, who were both ROKAF fighter pilots; the father bought the farm when his F-4 crashed in the ’80s, and the son bought the farm when his F-16 crashed in July 2007.
Don Chanhttp://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0107707
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0105659
1967/04/17:
USN F-111 test-fired AIM-54A Phoenix AAM.
Don Chanhttp://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0250442
Colour vid dated 1973/03/21.
At Holloman AFB, USA, seconds after tight formation take off, at least one USAF Thunderbirds F-4 collided and crashed.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0033163
Colour vid dated 1971/11/16.
USN Blue Angels (F-4) at Tai Nan, Taiwan.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0070634
1971/11/12:
USN Blue Angels (F-4) at Taipei IAP, Taiwan.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0069834
Colour vid dated 1971/11/11.
USN Blue Angels (F-4) at Tai Chung, Taiwan.
Don Chanhttp://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0090281
B&W vid dated 1968/04/25.
USN F-111B did take off (by catapult) and landing tests, at an AFB.
Don Chanhttp://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?ContentBlockID=e90d7923-1bfa-452f-bdbe-c5975bde55d2
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/06/29/lawrenceobit0629.html
“Gone West: Annie ‘Belle’ Lawrence”
Tue, 30 Jun ’09
Pilot, Mechanic, Pioneering Aviatrix
Annie Lawrence learned to fly before she learned to drive a car. Airplanes often flew low over her grandparents farm on final approach to a nearby dirt strip, which she said inspired her to pursue a career in aviation at a time when the field was almost completely dominated by men. And according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she passed away Wednesday at the age of 84.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2009/06/ap_wasp_pilots_062809/
news/2009/06/ap_wasp_pilots_062809
“Recognition near for WWII-era WASP pilots”
Posted : Sunday Jun 28, 2009 10:10:03 EDT
By Juana Summers – Austin (Texas) American-Statesman
AUSTIN, Texas — Susie Bain found her place in the sky when she was 21.
The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor, and Bain had left college because it was too expensive. She enrolled in clerical school, but when a friend told her about a chance to fly as one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, she signed up.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/news/tdcm/viewnews.asp?news=0251142
B&W vid dated 1973/04/15.
“USN trains female pilots”
(Yes, very blurry, and can’t see sh_t.)
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