MONDAY 16 NOV 2015: HSINCHU AIRBASE
On November 21st, an airshow would be held at Hsinchu. I wouldn't be able to attend because first, I wouldn't be staying till Saturday. And second, as a foreigner, I should have applied for access to the showground at least six weeks prior to the event. However, thanks to forum member Dutchphantom I knew the attending aircraft would arrive on this particular Monday morning so I decided to try my luck. Hsinchu is pretty good for photography of landing aircraft, and I was definitely not the only one there: my rough estimate would be that some 70 other enthusiasts were also present. Among them three other Dutch, one from Belgium and his companion from Luxembourg. I really liked the atmosphere: lots of young people wearing squadron T-shirts, cars covered with jet stickers and much interaction. Kinda felt like being along the fence of a random Dutch airbase during the nineties. Police stopped by to write down the passport numbers of the five European spotters. They didn't know why, except that they were following orders from their boss.
Anyway, here's what we saw:
First arrival of the day, a single T-34 from Ghangshan:
RoCAF T-34Then, the Thunder Tigers arrived with 10 AT-3's:
Thunder Tigers
AT-3C-130 from Pingtung, with an old school camouflage:
RoCAF C-130Next up, one of the highlights, a pretty cool agressor F-5F from Taitung:
Agressor F-5Clean demo F-16's from Chiayi:
RoCAF F-16And two well hung Vipers, probably for the static display:
F-16 air-to-air configurationF-CK-1's, two from Taichung (in demo colours) and two from Tainan:
F-CK-1C
Demo Ching-kuoE-2 from Pingtung, later followed by a P-3 (unfortunately, I messed up the shot of the latter):
RoCAF E-2 HawkeyeFlightchecker Beechcraft 1900. Later a regular, white one would also arrive, but as a Dutchman I prefer orange:
RoCAF Beechcraft 1900CAround 13:00u it seemed like everything had arrived. Unfortunately, not a single based Mirage had flown up until then. Knowing that light for photography would only be favorable again around 15:00 and that I still had a long drive ahead of me, I had a quick lunch with Dutchphantom and then left for my next goal: Hualien.
I will update this report later this week, when more pictures have been processed.
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But they avoid confrontation indead. 
Ha! This all sounds so very familiar!
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