The F-104G
This former ROCAF F-104G, AF number 4420, was stayed with people in Feng-Chia University in pass a decade. The F-104G was oringinal used by RDAF, Royal Denmark AirForce, then acquired by ROCAF in 1990's. FCU aeronautic dept replace oringinal F-86 Sabre and U-3 with this one in 1995. And 4420 become a baby of the dept. At first, the 4420 store in a dept factory for years, but the university policy make the factory distoried for new, beauty, and more useful building. So 4420 have to move to outdoor with good care and stand on greensward for waiting her next mission.
This former ROCAF F-104G, AF number 4420, was stayed with people in Feng-Chia University in pass a decade. The F-104G was oringinal used by RDAF, Royal Denmark AirForce, then acquired by ROCAF in 1990's. FCU aeronautic dept replace oringinal F-86 Sabre and U-3 with this one in 1995. And 4420 become a baby of the dept. At first, the 4420 store in a dept factory for years, but the university policy make the factory distoried for new, beauty, and more useful building. So 4420 have to move to outdoor with good care and stand on greensward for waiting her next mission.
Now show you some detials of the beauty.
This shot present the stored condition before process. The plane is surround by trees and buildings. How a beautiful image! Then we look at the tial fins, the vertial one.
There are three symbols on vertial fin, US number, ROCAF wing logo, and ROCAF number. US number 63-12699 means the no.12699 aircraft bought by us goverment and manufacture in 1963. The logo is mark of 11th wing base on Hsinchu AFB.
The Starting
The day of strating F-104 disassemble process. There is a ceremony for the transmation from Feng-Chia University(FCU) to Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum (CAAM) in the morning, and the president of FCU and Chairman of CAAM sign a contract for that.
When the CAAM crew in their duty, there are some other people around the place to watching this unique work. Some of them are the students and teachers of department of aerospace and systems engineering of FCU, and other are aviation photographer. Of course, there are a lot of people in campus see this activity and care about plane. The department's students who love the plane so much be a crew to help CAAM workforce, at the mean time, students can make thier study real.
Their are a lot of aviation lover care about F-104, and they wish F-104 can fly again in the furture.
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