Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081010-00000013-rps-ind
http://response.jp/issue/2008/1010/article114812_1.html
1:1 mock-up of “Subaru Jet”, business jet by Fuji Heavy Industries, based on JASDF U-125.
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/176/176556/img.html
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/176/176559/index-3.html
FWIW, space food (curry, &c) and (nudge, wink) the Yokohama Goodwill Ambassador at the Yokohama Port open port 150th anniversary memorial booth, in the Japan International Aerospace Exhibition 2008, at Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Don Chanhttp://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081009/4/17bnx.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081008/5/179×0.html
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/081008/4/8m0v.html
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/081007/4/8lal.html
*RUMOUR*
7 October 2008:
Two J-7s.
PLAN, based in Fu Jian Province.
About 10 AM, during training above Long Shan Town, collided.
One crashed in a banana farm in Tai Bao Village, Long Shan Town, Nan Jing County, Zhang Zhou City, southern Fu Jian Province.
Its pilot killed; didn’t eject.
The other crash-landed or emergency landed near Long Yan City, southwestern Fu Jian Province, and caught fire. 50 klicks from Nan Jing County.
No civilian casualty on ground.
PLAN, East Sea Fleet, 4th Division, 12th Regiment at Lu Qiao AB, Zhe Jiang Province, has 36 J-7s.
PLAN, East Sea Fleet, 6th Division, 17th Regiment at Yi Wu AB, Zhe Jiang Province, has FBC-1s.
Don Chanhttp://chineseaviation.blogspot.com/
“About the book
A HISTORY OF CHINESE AVIATION [by Lennart Andersson] is a detailed study of aviation in China. More than 400 different types of aircraft from many of the world’s aircraft manufacturing countries were used in China during the period before 1949! In addition a number of types were developed and produced inside China. Chinese aviation was in fact much more extensive and diversified than has previously been generally understood.”
Don Chanhttp://www.geocities.jp/momoirowing/kichi_komatu.html
2008.09.21:
Komatsu AB air show.
http://ccd.nowa.jp/tag/%E8%88%AA%E7%A9%BA%E7%A5%AD
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/osysosm/diary/200709060000/
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/zake8/diary/200709070000/
2007:
Misawa AB air show.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/genneigennjitu2005/archives/51042216.html
2007.09.23:
Komatsu AB air show.
http://4travel.jp/traveler/ittsuan123jp/pict/12192871/src.html
2007.05.13 (?):
Shizuhama AB air show.
http://blog.livedoor.jp/kazuoki30/archives/50469817.html
2006.09.21:
Komatsu AB air show.
http://www.little-w.co.jp/cgi/nicky/2005/051211_1.jpg
in
http://www.little-w.co.jp/cgi/nicky/nicky.cgi?DATE=200512?MODE=MONTH
2005.12.11:
Naha AB air show.
http://mato7.blog28.fc2.com/blog-entry-32.html
2005.11.06:
Gifu AB air show.
http://www.geocities.jp/grhq01/documents/koukuusai2004/koukuusai2004.html
2004.10.17:
Gifu AB air show.
http://www.kaiyou.jp/2004/20040905/040905.htm
2004.09.05:
Misawa AB air show.
http://www.sam.hi-ho.ne.jp/ae86rx7oosaki/jsdf/fot/fotmomo.htm
1999.11.22:
Gifu AB air show.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/otanukiyama/23239285.html
1998.11.14:
Gifu AB air show.
http://www.geocities.jp/tabipapajp/1995hamamatsu_as.htm
1995.12.03:
Hamamatsu AB air show.
http://www.geocities.jp/momoirowing/kichi_model.html
1994-2008:
Various AB air shows.
http://studiomd.jp/free/afmc/affk/
Undated:
Misawa AB air show.
Don Chanhttp://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081005/2/173ia.html
One of the six items is: 30 Apaches, with 17 sets of AN/APG-78 fire-control radars, 173 Stingers, 1,000 Hellfire Longbows, and 66 sets of launchers.
My first impression: the JGSDF won’t afford any more Apache Longbows, but the ROCA will?
Maybe these are obsolescent Apaches, and not Apache Longbows?
Also, the last time Bush I sold F-16s to Taiwan, thus destroying the hope for selling F-20s to Taiwan; Bush I lost the election, and Clinton’s husband won. This time, Bush II selling weapons to Taiwan is bad omen for McCain-Palin, IMO.
(BTW, hope the Taiwanese DOD has more attractive spokeswomen.)
Don Chanhttp://response.jp/issue/2008/1003/article114568_1.images/195176.html
http://response.jp/issue/2008/1003/article114568_1.html
1:1 RCS test model of 5th generation stealth fighter Shinshin, now in the Japan International Aerospace Exhibition 2008, at Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Don Chanhttp://www.gifu-np.co.jp/news/kennai/20081001/200810010854_5991.shtml
30 September 2008:
Kakamigahara aviation museum, Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture.
T-3 #547 opens to public.
http://mytown.asahi.com/hokkaido/news.php?k_id=01000000810020003
28 September 2008:
Chitose AB, Hokkaidou.
UH-60J of SAR squadrons, JASDF.
Dark blue camouflage gradually replaces yellow and white two tone colour, since two years ago.
Now, 15 of 40 UH-60J of 10 SAR squadrons are dark blue camouflage.
Article claims although dark blue camouflage is hard to see by rescuee, aircraft has FLIR and radar for better detection ability.
http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/aichi/20080929/CK2008092902000045.html
28 September 2008:
Prefectural Nagoya AP / Komaki AB, Aichi Prefecture.
“Kuukou kids tankentai” [“Airport kids exploration team”] bus tour.
Airport and control tower open to public.
http://www.kanaloco.jp/localnews/entry/entryxiiisep0809750/
29 September 2008:
Universal shipbuilding Keihin business establishment, Suehiro Town, Tsurumi Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
The last wooden JMSDF mine-sweeper #603 is named JDS Takashima and enters water.
Future mine-sweepers made of FRP [fibre reinforced plastic].
Length, 57 m. Speed, 14 knots. Weight, 570 tons. Two diesel engines. 40 crew.
Don Chanhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20081001-00000015-maiall-soci
http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/graph/2008air/?inb=yt
1 October 2008:
Japan International Aerospace Exhibition 2008.
Photos of mock-up of MRJ interior… with real stewardess.
Official site:
http://www.japanaerospace.jp/english/index.html
Hmm…
“JASDF’ Blue Impulse will demonstrate its splendid formation flight over the exhibition site and Yokohama.
→ Canceled due to bad weather.”
Don ChanWhile looking for Chinese threads about that H-6 with something under its tail, noticed
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5611171801000cd4.html
has two photos of a Shui Hong-5 amphibious ASW aircraft, 9113, with its left wing submerged up to its leftmost engine. Probably North Sea Fleet, PLAN.
Took another look, and posts dated 10 April 2008 in
http://top.jschina.com.cn/top81bbs/thread.php?cid=11&rootid=630051&id=630051
with three photos, claim:
2007 (?):
SH-5 (Shui Hong-5). 9113.
5th Regiment (formerly independent 3rd Regiment), 2nd Division, North Sea Fleet, PLAN, based at Qing Dao City (Tuan Dao AB?), Shan Dong Province.
Second-class accident: landed in Jiao Zhou Wan (Jiao Zhou Bay), with its left wing submerged up to its #1 (leftmost) engine.
Repaired before or by April 2008.
This thread also claims, sometime before the SH-5 9113 accident:
2007 (?):
Z-8 Super Hornet.
Independent 6th Regiment, PLAN, based at Qing Dao City, Shan Dong Province.
Second-class accident: emergency landed on Zhu Zhou Road, east of Hai Er industrial park.
But a post dated 12 April 2004, in
http://bbs.cjdby.net/archiver/?tid-69528.html
claims: on 31 March 2004, at Tuan Dao AB, two retired B-6s were rotting, and three SH-6s (9113, 9133, 9143) were preserved/sealed.
Maybe the SH-5s’ situ has improved since 2004?
Anyone here knows the dates and details of these accidents?
Don ChanMy first impression: maybe a decoy/tow target pod?
Or an aerial refuelling pod? Such as
http://images.qianlong.com/mmsource/images/2004/12/30/041230milh62.jpg
in
http://www.airplaneshop.cn/productview.asp?id=155
] Melamine as a resin is actually a very durable, even fire resistant, plastic.
“Thank you, Mr Spock.”
Don Chanhttp://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080930/5/16t51.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080930/5/16t3p.html
http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080930/1/16t1a.html
30 September 2008:
Funeral ceremony for ROCAF Major (posthumous Lieutenant Colonel) TING Shih Pao, whose F-16A Block 20, 6706 (93-0807), crashed on night of 4 March 2008.
After missing and not recovered for six months, officially declared killed.
Attended by ROC President Ma.
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ryankuo-militaryreport/article?mid=2033&prev=2047&next=2000
ROC presidential order dated 26 September 2008:
Major Ting posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Colonel; retroactively effective from 4 September 2008.
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/ryankuo-militaryreport/article?mid=2047&next=2033&l=f&fid=8
Lieutenant Colonel Ting’s funeral ceremony on 30 September 2008.
Don Chanhttp://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=151095
“Photo Release — Northrop Grumman Delivers First Production-Line High-Power, Solid-State Laser to U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory At Kirtland AFB”
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Sept. 29, 2008 — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has delivered a compact, standalone, 15kW high-power, solid-state laser developed for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123116961
“Test results show Active Denial System as nonlethal weapon”
by Dr. Gordon Hengst
Human Effectiveness Directorate
9/26/2008 – WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) — Air Force Research Laboratory officials here recently completed an extensive bioeffects research program for an invisible, counter personnel, directed-energy weapon known as the Active Denial System.
(Maser cannon, as seen in giant monster movies?)
Don Chanhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/mil/2008-09/28/content_10125844.htm
“Guang Zhou AF units equip new-type domestic-produced Kai Shan-1A SAM”.
KS-1A SAM.
Altitude: 0.5 to 25 klicks. Range: 5-50 klicks. Warhead: 100 kg high-explosive fragmentation.
(Contains melamine?) 8D
With SJ-202 radar.
Detects 115 klicks, tracks 80 klicks, guides 50 klicks.
Guides up to six missiles at three to six targets.
IMO: HARM-magnet.
Don ChanBTW, a Jap friend says the digital-remastered version of ST:TOS is re-syndicated in Japan, and this ep was on-air a few weeks ago. 8(
Don Chan(Yes, I’ve been thinking too much again.)
] Albatros Modelworks evidently makes an “1/72 ALC72006 Exotic Stars Worldwide F-104s”
] that includes USAF “F-104C ‘Smoke II’ Serial #70926 in Vietnam War”.
I was curious about: the illustrated 70926 apparently wears SEA camouflage.
] The book “US Military Aircraft Mishaps 1950-2004”, by Scramble/Dutch Aviation Society,
This concise summary is based on, but isn’t copied verbatim from, the book:
17 June 1965:
F-104C. 57-0926.
479th TFW, USAF.
While landing at George AFB, California; flamed out and crashed; 1,500′ from runway.
One pilot wounded.
No TFS number…
In 1965, between April and November, a few F-104 squadrons based at George AFB, rotated to South Vietnam and Taiwan. For example:
http://www.smso.net/F-104_Starfighter
“The 476th Tactical Fighter Squadron deployed to Vietnam in April 1965 through July 1965, losing one Starfighter; and the 436th Tactical Fighter Squadron deployed to Vietnam in July 1965 through October 1965, losing four.”
As 926 crashed in June 1965, it probably wasn’t 476th TFS. It could be 436th TFS (see below) or another TFS.
http://www.916-starfighter.de/F-104_USA_Berlin%20crisis.pdf
During the Berlin Crisis, 926 was assigned to 434th TFS, then to 435th TFS, then to 436th TFS, until 12 April 1962. All three TFS were assigned to 479th TFW.
926 could’ve stayed in 436th TFS after/since 1962.
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f104_9.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Air_Force_Base
“During 1964/65 the 23d Air Base Group at Da Nang AB South Vietnam supported the 476th and 479th TFS in regular TDY rotations. Their job was to fly MiG combat air patrol (MiGCAP) missions to protect American fighter bombers against attack by North Vietnamese fighters.
“In April 1965, [George AFB] deployed two squadrons to Ching Chuan Kang Air Base Taiwan (434th and 435th TFS) and one [to] Takhli RTAFB Thailand (476th TFS) to provide air defenses of northern area of the Republic of Vietnam.”
The 436th TFS didn’t seem to have rotated to SEA before July 1965.
In other words,
i) if the actual 926 actually wore SEA camouflage, and it belonged to 436th TFS when it crashed in June 1965, then it could’ve been pre-painted with the SEA camouflage as preparation for its rotation to SEA; or
ii) if the actual 926 actually wore SEA camouflage, and it didn’t belong to 436th TFS when it crashed, then it could’ve belonged to another TFS that went over to SEA, and rotated back to CONUS.
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