Don ChanI sit corrected. 8D
To paraphrase a modern Chinese proverb: “In modern China, only one thing is true: a fake is truly fake.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-10/27/content_10257700.htm
HY-6 x 1
JH-7A x 1
J-8D x 2
J-10A x 2
L-15 #03
Xiao Ying 500
Y-12
Z-8
Z-9 H425 x 1
Z-11
“If it’s on Xin Hua Net, it must be true.”
Don Chan“Monessa Catuncan: A Filipina takes flight”
Saturday, 25 October 2008 12:11 Billy Dela Cruz/AJPress
UNITED States Air Force F-16 fighter pilot Monessa Catuncan doesn’t just maneuver an aircraft whenever she’s on air—she also carries the Philippine flag and the pride of the country it represents and the people in it.
http://forum.dtmonline.com/leo/cgi-bin/view.cgi?forum=5&topic=149
Article dated 3 January 2007.
Pilot course classmates Lieutenant GU Yu Xin and Lieutenant ZHUANG Hui Qing were the only two ROCN S-2T female pilots.
Zhuang had 300 flight hours after she flew S-2T for two years.
Gu and Zhuang were 133rd Squadron, 1st Aviation Group, Naval Aviation Command, ROCN.
http://tt.mop.com/club/read_1388497.html
Photos of ROC military female pilots and crew members.
Don Chan] Here are my most favourites !!
Comrades 50556 and 50655… Hmm…
http://www.afwing.com/combat/plaaf.htm
That’s 5xx5x… Hmm…
34th Division, PLAAF… A transport division based at Nan Yuan, Bei Jing, that flies Y-7, Y-8, and “special aircraft”?
Maybe that chart is out-of-date, but 34th Division still doesn’t sound like a fighter or attacker division?
Don ChanFriday, 24 October 2008:
Cessna 172. N4961R.
Kadena Aero Club, USAF, based at Kadena AB, Okinawa Prefecture.
18:35, crashed into cane field, and caught fire. 80 m from Family Mart convenience store, Makiya, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture. 300 m southeast of Nago City kindergarten and Nago City primary school. 8 km from Nago City government office.
Three of four male USAF crew wounded, and delivered to hospital. Aged 24, 28, 30, 45. Pilot (45) had factured left foot.
One crew claimed flew at low altitude and hit power lines.
No ground casualty, but 700 families in area had temporary power loss.
Afternoon, took off at Kadena AB.
16:24, landed at Amami AP, Amami Ooshima [island], Kagoshima Prefecture.
17:08, took off at Amami AP. Scheduled to land at Kadena AB, after two hours.
Before crash, aircraft told control tower that no fuel, and losing power.
Wreck at crash site examined by fire department, police, US military.
Kadena AB claimed aircraft was refuelled at Amami AP.
Amami AP claimed aircraft was not refulled at Amami AP. Kadena Aero Club usually faxed Amami AP about refuelling, before its aircraft arrived. Kadena Aero Club did not fax Amami AP, and this aircraft was not refuelled.
Aircraft flight distance maximum 1,100 km. Amami to Okinawa, 300 km. If aircraft had full fuel tank, did not need to refuel at Amami AP.
Prefectural police must have US military consent to detain and examine US military property. US military did not allow prefectural police to detain this wreck.
25 October, afternoon, US military disassembled wreck and removed to Kadena AB.
Video news, displaying serial number:
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/ann/20081026/20081026-00000006-ann-soci.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081026-00000014-mai-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081025-00000015-ryu-oki
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081024-00000157-jij-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081024-00000127-mai-soci
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081024-00000052-yom-soci
Don Chanhttp://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/pref/index.asp?cateNo=1&newsNo=114249
24 October 2008:
V-107. #852.
Niigata Kyuunantai, JASDF, based at Niigata AB, Niigata Prefecture.
Retirement ceremony. Assignment to Niigata Kyuunantai ends, and transfers to Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Last flight pilot is Major Kawarada Hidekazu, who flew it for 18 years.
Scheduled to retire in 2009 October. First assigned to Niigata Kyuunantai in 1980.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/news/20081021-OYT1T00722.htm?from=navr
http://chuchu.tea-nifty.com/air/2008/10/081021mu-2-6b2f.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081021-00000058-yom-soci
http://kyushu.yomiuri.co.jp/local/miyazaki/20081023-OYS1T00253.htm
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/lovefour/diary/?
21 October 2008:
MU-2. 63-3228, #228.
JASDF, based at Hamamatsu AB, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture.
Last flight ceremony, at Nyuutabaru AB, Miyazaki Prefecture. JASDF retires last SAR aircraft MU-2.
Last flight pilot is Major Oomae Ken (43).
Made in 1986. Total flight time: 7,610 hours.
Scheduled to be preserved at Nyuutabaru AB.
http://www.asagumo-news.com/news/200810/081016/08101610.html
30 September 2008:
Four F-4EJ Kai. #340, #342, #354, #424.
8th Hikoutai, 3rd Koukuudan, JASDF, based at Misawa AB, Aomori Prefecture.
Last alert ceremony. JASDF retires F-4EJ Kai for alert duty against intruders.
Replaced by F-2 of 3rd Hikoutai, until 8th Hikoutai converts to F-2.
#340 crew: Lieutenant Colonel Nunomura Yoshihide, Captain Nakao Kenji.
#342 crew: Captain Momiyama Takashi, Captain Manabe Seiji.
#354 crew: Captain Horii Tsunehiro, First Lieutenant Akagawa Shunsuke.
#424 crew: Captain Kanda Minoru, First Lieutenant Shimao Wataru.
Don ChanWhile yomping around for photos of J-10As at Zhu Hai:
http://military.china.com/zh_cn/bbs2/11053806/20081013/15131758.html
Article dated 13 October 2008: photo apparently Photoshopped or dated 25 September 2007, of WZ-10 mock-up?
http://bbs.tiexue.net/post_3070420_1.html
Article dated 26 September 2008: in the second photo, black helo in background looks as Photoshopped as President Hu (third person from left) in foreground, IMO.
http://tuku.military.china.com/military/html/2006-04-11/1020487_724777073.htm
Article dated 11 April 2006: wind tunnel models related to WZ-10?
(And the, eh, photos in the right column are so, eh, uncommunist, IMO.)
http://military.china.com/zh_cn/bbs/11018441/20041220/12023175.html
Article dated 20 December 2004: PLA and PLAAF upper arm patches that show WZ-10 and J-10?
Don Chanhttp://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/081023/4/8vbi.html
22 October 2008:
On Wednesday morning, two PLAAF J-10As with drop tanks, landed at Zhu Hai AP, Guang Dong Province.
To quote an ancient Hong Kong Christmas carol: “Deng Xiao Ping is coming to town.” XD
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/78/184fk.html
22 October 2008:
Taiwanese politician claims: to save fuel, ROCA and ROCAF pilots are decreasing their monthly flight hours.
ROCAF first-line pilots: 15 hours/month and 180 hours/year, to 13 hours/month and 156 hours/year.
ROCA AH-1W and OH-58D pilots: 144 hours/year, to 120 hours/year.
ROCA UH-1H and T-67 pilots: 96 hours/year, to 84 hours/year.
OTOH, PLAAF first-line pilots are increasing: 6-8 hours/month, to 10-12 hours/month.
Don Chan9 September 2008:
KF-16B.
19th FW, ROKAF.
ROKAF 60th anniversary.
From what I can figure out from a translation site, she’s Professor Lee, probably the first South Korean female astronaut. Flew for about an hour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_So-yeon
YI So Yeon. First South Korean female astronaut.
Don ChanNews article expired. Here’s a quick fix:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mark23/20050923
Blue UH-60J of the Komatsu Kyuunantai, at Komatsu AB.
Don Chan21 October 2008:
S-70C(M)-2 ASW helo. 2321.
ROCN, based at Hua Lian.
During night ASW training, crashed into sea, 50 NM from Shih Ti Ping, Hua Lian.
Before the crash, the helo was hovering at 80′ to 100′ ASL, and lowering a sonar; but before the sonar was in the water, the helo suddenly crashed into sea.
Five crew.
After the crash, one killed and recovered: ASW NCO Chief Petty Officer ZHU Jun De (45, CHU Chun Teh, married, with two children).
Two wounded and rescued: flight engineer Chief Petty Officer TANG Zhi Xun (35, TANG Shih Shun, married), pilot Lieutenant Commander LIU Shi Chen (33, LIU Shih Cheng, married, with 1,449 flight hours).
Two missing: ASW officer Lieutenant HUANG Ji Sheng (28, single), co-pilot Lieutenant OU Shi Wen (30, OU Shih Wen, married, with 935 flight hours).
18:28, took off from ROCN warship Cheng De (1208).
18:44, missing, 62 NM and 132 degrees from Hua Lian.
After two crashes in two days, ROCN command immediately grounded all S-70Cs.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/69/185mh.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081022/60/1841h.html
After the crash, (the conscious, lucky, and relatively lightly wounded) Tang broke/kicked open the emergency window, and floated to the surface. He saw Liu and Zhu also floated to the surface, and grabbed them. They drifted for two hours before rescued by the warship Hai Yang.
After treatment, Tang was transferred from ICU to standard room. Tang’s a cross-country bicyclist.
After spinal surgery, Liu was transferred to ICU.
Zhu was his parents’ only son.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081022/17/182je.html
Serial numbers of three crashed ROCN S-70Cs are “5” apart (in-between).
12 January 1994: S-70C-M1, 2311.
19 October 2005: S-70C-M2, 2316.
21 October 2008: S-70C-M2, 2321.
Serial numbers coincidence or jinx?
Article doesn’t say whether ROCN has any S-70C numbered 2306 or 2326?
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081022/5/181la.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/8/181h5.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/8/181i9.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/17/181j5.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/60/181jt.html
Don Chanhttp://chuchu.tea-nifty.com/air/2008/10/081021mu-2-6b2f.html
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081021-00000058-yom-soci
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/lovefour/diary/?
21 October 2008:
MU-2. 63-3228, #228.
Hamamatsu AB, Hamamatsu City.
Last flight ceremony. JASDF retires last SAR aircraft MU-2.
Pilot Major Oomae Ken (43).
Don Chanhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081020/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_ufo
“U.S. pilot was ordered to shoot down UFO”
By Peter Griffiths Peter Griffiths – 40 mins ago [20 October 2008]
LONDON (Reuters) – Two U.S. fighter planes were scrambled and ordered to shoot down an unidentified flying object (UFO) over the English countryside during the Cold War, according to secret files made public on Monday.
Don Chan*OFF-TOPIC ALERT*
] That’s mean…
Japanese 2ch and Futaba public-domain message boards are still full of flameage between Japanese right-wing Netters and South Korean Netters, with some of the latter living/studying/working in Japan.
Personally, last year or so, I used to post military pics in a Japanese message board where messages are written in Chinese, because it has more moderate/rational Hongkonger/Taiwanese Netters than Japanese Netters; but then I lost interest because the Japanese Netters there kept provoking me (which I ignored) and claiming I’m also a South Korean trouble-maker based in Japan. 8P
Don “I’m not a racist: I hate everyone equally” Chan
Don Chan20 October 2008:
F-CK-1B Ching Kuo IDF (“I Don’t Fly”). 1615 (84-8055).
Air Force Test Centre, 427th Lian Dui, ROCAF, based at CCK AB, Tai Chung County.
9:45, or half an hour after take off, during low-altitude bombing training sortie to Shi Jiao (“Stone Reef”) bombing range, southwest of Peng Hu, crashed into sea.
Two pilots missing. Pilot Captain GU Zhi Bin (29, KU Chih Bin) in front, flight engineer Captain CHEN Jian Ting (31, CHEN Chien Ting) in back.
Their photos:
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/5/17yd0.html
9:15, took off at CCK AB. Third of flight of three.
Peng Hu weather was excellent; no fog, visibility: five NM, wind direction: 060, wind speed 6 knots.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/1/180dy.html
9:40, #1 and #2 dropped concrete bombs: from south to north, from 2,400′, dived at 20 degrees, bombs away, and climbed at 20 degrees, for 5 Gs. #3 was observer, unarmed, and had to climb in two seconds, from 500′ to 4,400′.
9:42, #1 and #2 couldn’t contact #3.
Aircraft flew 57 sorties and 104 hours, since it last entered factory for inspection on 23 May, and exited on 18 June.
By evening, before darkness, near Mao Yu (“Cat Islet”), recovered debris: including helmet lining, life vest, parachute box, and seat.
By evening on second day, recovered more debris and suspected body parts, on and around Cao Yu (“Grass Islet”).
Gu has 1,065 flight hours; 707 hours 35 minutes in IDF. Two-aircraft element leader. Last flight on 19 October. Last air-to-ground training on 3 October.
Chen has 24 flight hours 55 minutes as passenger; 22 hours with Gu. Last flight on 22 September.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/78/17zjl.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/4/17zeo.html
Both pilots recently married. Gu’s wife LI Si Ying is pregnant for three months. Married in December 2006.
Gu’s sister is flight attendant. Father is truck driver, then taxi driver, then retired. Mother works at department store.
Chen’s wife KE Wen Lin is a prosecutor in Chia Yi. Married in November 2007.
Chen’s third of three children; brother is a ROCA Major.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/1/17y3g.html
Aircraft accepted in August 1996. 2,035 flight hours. After last inspection on 23 May, flew 104 hours.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/4/184as.html
Fisherman DONG Wan Qi on Cao Yu claimed, at or about 9:55, he witnessed one of three aircraft crashed into sea, and the consequent water column, explosion, and debris.
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/5/1862a.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/5/1865r.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081023/5/18689.html
By evening of 23 October, recovered more debris: black box (!), usually mounted under tail fin; both pilots’ parachutes, unopened in their containers; and tail fin.
Photos of debris and flight path:
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/5/1813c.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081021/5/181ed.html
Yahoo! Taiwan News feature story:
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/featurestory/idf1020.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/1/17y60.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/1/17y74.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/5/17y3m.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/8/17xz1.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081020/8/17yan.html
Don Chan] Hey, whatever works.
Actually, ISTR reading about the WWII pigeon-guided smart glide bombs in an ancient issue of Air Force Magazine (the USAF one) or Av Leak?
] And there is a grain of truth to the idea that South Korea often mirrors Japanese defence developments,
The South Korean media usually claim the South Koren developments are more capable than their neighbour’s; for example, the F-15K and South Korean Aegis destroyers are more capable than the F-15J/DJ and Kongou Class destroyers, because the South Korean ones can fire cruise missiles for land attacks, &c. The Japanese hardware obviously aren’t designed for long-range attacks.
OTOH, the Japanese Netters countered with their F-15s don’t fall into manholes, nor fly into the sea at night, nor throw frogs into an engine intake for fun.
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