VERNAL EQUINOX 2026

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🌍 Vernal Equinox — A Position in the Flow

Berlin, March 20, 2026

Today, the Earth reaches a point where day and night stand nearly equal.
The Sun crosses the celestial equator.
Light and darkness share the sky without argument.

No nation owns this moment.
No ideology bends it.
The Earth simply turns.

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My Position

In Berlin it is 18:20, looking South out my window across the birch tree that has become my reference point.

I have watched the Sun move along its path, day by day, season by season.

Today, it passes not just across the sky—
but through my awareness.

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From the Beginning to Now

We know, scientifically, that a very small imbalance in the early universe allowed everything that followed:

stars,
carbon,
planets,
oxygen,
life,
and finally Homo sapiens.

That slight difference—barely measurable—made structure possible.

Cosmic Background temperature differential reflected the quantum variables that preceded and was 1 part in 100,000 parts. .ooo1 DELTA T. … KELVIN

And now I stand here, breathing Oxygen, looking out at a tree.

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Equality Without Agreement

On this day, every human being on Earth receives nearly the same measure of light and darkness.

There are no borders in sunrise.
No politics in the path of the Sun.

For a moment, the Earth demonstrates something HOMO sapiens have not yet learned, to organize ourselves around:

   **balance.**

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My Own Crossings

I have crossed oceans in ships and aircraft,I
felt the Flow through the controls,
learned what it means to move lightly within forces larger than myself.

And I have also been stopped—suddenly—when my leg was shattered in an accident,
and my movement across the world came to an end.

That, too, was an equinox.

Motion on one side.
Stillness on the other.

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The Orders and the Ocean

I served aboard the USS Engage, crossing the Pacific.

This was 1962.
The waters off North Vietnam were already tense, though the full war had not yet unfolded.

While we were there, fast boats made high-speed runs toward us.

I was not on the bridge at the time, but the officers who were—Lt. J.G. Ingram and Lt. Commander L. E.Zook —had long experience at sea. Zook had been a Chief Petty Officer Sgnalman before becoming an officer. He had served on four cruisers sunk in the Pacific and was one of ten who survived the sinking of the USS Juneau.

Their judgment was clear:

those boats did not present a real threat.

They approached at speed, yes—
but did not attack.

Out where we were, it was an encounter.
Close, tense—but not combat.

Events at sea become reports.
Reports become conclusions.
Conclusions become decisions.

And decisions move history.

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Wake Island — The Flow of a War

In November of 1963 I was a student on a training flight in a C-130 aircraft at Seward AFB in Tennessee, when JFK was murdered in Dallas.

The NS Documents were changed to give the EXECUTIVE more power over when and where we go to WAR, then we had Johnston and now we have Trump. Many presidents have used this EXECUTIVE POWER and we have militarized the police and are experts at crowd survaillance and facial and license recordings.

I had been on a ready reserve crew at VR-3 when President Lyndon Johnson made his Vietnam speech.
I packed a bag expecting a long journey.

From the sea on the Engage, I later found myself on Wake Island.

It was not a battle.
It was something quieter—and in its own way, more powerful.

And then I was inside it.

Not reading about it.

For three days I watched the flow while waiting for an Oxygen bottle Pressure regulating valve to arrive so we could continue west.

Aircraft landed,
refueled,
and departed—moving steadily west.

Wave after wave.

There was no confusion in it.
No hesitation.

Just continuity.

Not analyzing it.

Standing there, watching a plan unfold through motion.

Fuel,
metal,
people,
orders—

all moving in one direction.

Once set in motion, the system does not question itself.
It moves.

There was no confusion about what we were doing.

In the C-130, we delivered new soldiers into Vietnam—into bases like Tan Son Nhut.

They came aboard our aircraft alive.

We flew them in, and they got off the airplane.

Then, on the same aircraft, we were loaded with body bags to take back.

Seventy-six on one flight.

I was twenty-nine years old.

That was not theory.
That was the system.

The 130’s carried me to the Shah’s IRAN, provided by a CIA coup to get rid of the elected leader who had NATIONALIZED “Britain’s” oil.

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We flew to US bases and CIA outposts in North Africa and Turkey and Greece and Cairo.

I windmill started my C-130 at 4 airports to continue my flight to Cairo, and there, I told the Air Force we had a bad starter and they grounded the aircraft in Cairo and we had to wait for a replacement starter.

So, we got a layover in Nasser’s CAIRO in 1966.
It took us 3 hours to get off the airport but we got to see the Sphinx and the Pyramids.

Pan Am — Across the Divides

Later, I flew for Pan Am.

As an Instructor Aircraft Commander I taught my students to become aircraft commanders in C-130 aircraft, not simulators. I did a lot of that work at Atlantic City.

So, when I got to Pan Am, they told me I could earn more money in the beginning as a Flight Engineer and I was already an experienced international pilot and the Airline Pilot’s Association would protect our flying rights, which they did NOT do with the merger of National.

So, in 1967 I was sent to SFO to be trained as a Flight Engineer on 707 aircraft, and through a friend at VR-3, I got introduced to the Psychedelic rock crowd doing light shows at the Filmore. There, the Hell’s Angels were providing security and Owsley’s SUNSHINE acid laced the punch. I traveled on that road for many years SEARCHING.

The Pan Am routes carried us across a divided world—
into Europe,
into Africa,
and into places where systems of power were visible in everyday life.

In Berlin, we flew within the corridors—narrow paths through controlled airspace, defined by agreement, watched by radar, and respected because they had to be. We flew over Fulda 12 times a day on our way to Frankfurt.Nobody asked us about the Russian tanks Nixon was talking about.

On the ground, the division was just as real.

There were walls,
checkpoints,
and entire populations living under different rules depending on which side they stood.

I flew into countries behind what was called the Iron Curtain.

In some places, you could feel the presence of the state everywhere—
in the streets,
in the hotels,
in the eyes of people who were careful about what they said.

I saw how power organizes itself—
not just in war,
but in daily life.

I was not outside these systems.
I was flying through them.

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Buenos Aires — The Mothers

In Buenos Aires, I became aware of the mothers.

Women who gathered, again and again, asking a simple question:

Where are our children?

They walked in public spaces,
wearing white scarves,
holding photographs,
refusing to let disappearance become silence.

They were not armed.
They were not in command of anything.

But they remained.

In a world organized by power,
they stood for memory.

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Athens, 1973

I was living in Kolonaki when the students occupied the Polytechnic.

I heard their broadcast on my radio.
They spoke directly to the people— telling that Junta members had Swiss bank accounts getting filled with money.

and to the soldiers.- they were saying that the soldiers in the tanks were Greeks. They said they would not fire on their own.

Then I heard the gunfire

I heard it through the radio.
And I heard it through my window.

All this came about through the post war election to return the King to Greece. The civil war and the rise pf the Junta all came from the abuses of England and America to the Greek people.

In that moment, something became clear:

Homo sapiens can know the truth—
and still act against it.

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The Imbalance

We have built nations, systems, and structures of power that do not reflect the balance we are part of.

War,
control,
abuse,
decisions imposed by force—

these are not expressions of the Earth’s order.

They are our own constructions.

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The Flow

There is something else I have felt—

at sea,
in flight,
in music,
in the quiet movement of light across a tree.

A Flow that does not argue.
A Flow that does not impose.

It moves, and if you are attentive, you can move with it.

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The Question

If the universe can hold balance,
if the Earth can demonstrate it twice each year without effort—

what prevents us from doing the same?

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The Sun continues.
The Earth turns.

The light moves past the birch.

And I remain here—
aware that I am part of it.

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LEW WELCH, a Beat poet of years gone by put it this way;

What strange pleasure do they get who’d
wipe whole worlds out,
ANYTHING,
to end our lives, our
wild idleness?
But we have charms against their rage—
must go on on saying:
“Look,
If nobody tried to live this way,
All the work of the world would be in vain.”
And now and then a son,
a daughter, hears it.

Now and then a son, a daughter
gets away.

Which Homo Sapiens are FREE?

In developed industrial and digital societies: those who can do what they want to do, without causing harm to others.
-hobos
-beat writers
-hippies who stayed at it
-vets who walked out of society.

And anybody anywhere that learns how to Be Here Now … Free

HISTORY

A BRIEFER HISTORY OF TIME
FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE BIG MAC® Eric Schulman

Quantum fluctuation. Inflation. Expansion. Particle-antiparticle
annihilation. Deuterium and helium production. Recombination.
Galaxy formation. Turbulent fragmentation. Massive star
formation. Stellar evolution. Iron production. Supernova
explosion. Star formation.

Click through the photos bdelow:

Planetary differentiation. Volatile
gas expulsion. Molecular reproduction. Protein construction.
Fermentation. Cell differentiation. Respiration. Multicellular
organisms. Sexual reproduction. Evolutionary diversification.
Trilobite domination. Land exploration. Comet collision.
Dinosaur extinction. Mammal expansion. Homo sapiens
manifestation. Language acquisition. Glaciation. Innovation.
Religion. Animal domestication. Food surplus production.
Inscription. Warring nations. Empire creation and destruction.
Civilization. Constitution. Industrialization. World
conflagrations. Fission explosions. Computerization. Space
exploration. Population explosion. Superpower confrontation.
Internet expansion. Resignation. Reunification. World Wide
Web creation. Composition. Extrapolation.

Reading Schulman’s book is informative and I recommend it for all, but when you understand that all that information has to be shared by all Homo sapiens across this blue planet consiliently you understand our problems.

CONSILIENCE Wilson, E. O..
The central idea of the consilience world view is: that all tangible phenomena, from the birth of stars to the workings of social institutions, are based on material processes that are ultimately reducible, however long and tortuous the sequences, to the laws of physics. In support of this idea is the conclusion of biologists that humanity is kin to all other life forms by common descent. Consilience (p. 291

When we have unified enough certain knowledge, we will understand who we are and why we are here. If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. Consilience (p. 7)

Objective reality
There are TRUTHS that permeate the Universe we live in,

Let the politicians talk. It doesn’t matter.
In our universe, in a circle,
the division of the circumference by the diameter = 3.14159…
We call that Π …
the Greek alphabet for P it is
pronounced PIE

To get to CONSILIENCE, we will have to AGREE that there is a Universal Reality that we can examine through Scientific research and through dialogues about our EXPERIENCE of our own minds.

We will have to talk about the morphic processes that go from the Big Bang to the wars that are going on now and the child abuse that we place on the unlucky children.

We can get to a consiliatory conclusion of what this Universe we live in MIGHT look like, if our Science and our Thinking is accurate.

We will NEED to understand that our decisions and our behavior are influenced by our INDIVIDUAL understanding of what kind of Universe we live in, what it’s history has been, how our individual cultures were formed and how our Global Universal understanding is being achieved through Homo sapiens’ “IMAGINATIOIN” !

IMAGINATION

Each of us, through our own EXPERIENCE, have created a picture gallery in our many layered mind. We can try to explain those images with words or art. When some picture emerges from the unconscious mind to the conscious mind it brings up the image and what memories that are attached to it.

The Universe of Experience
Lancelot Law Whyte
Make time to read it if you are curious about how Homo Sapiens progress across generations, in spite of the DNA.

The Homo sapiens mind has several levels of consciousness operating all the time. There are instances when several levels operate simultaneously. Whyte calls that perconcious.
For now what he said that was so starling to me was this: (P 107)
“If one postulates a causal continuity, as anyone seeking a rational understanding must, it follows that unconscious patterns of thought must contain information, or contain features that can later become conscious information, before the CONSCIOUS MIND does.”

He argues that the Homo sapiens organism seeks to attain vitality with no discord, and he defines that as JOY!

Further he argues, that the RANDOM changing of the genes from radiations is weighed at unconscious levels to SELECT those changes BEING will ALLOW to be presented and that’s how we acquired language so quickly.

Globally Homo sapiens have been exposed to nihilism and anti-humanism for more than a hundred years. Facists and authoritization have used power and violence , as do Democracies, to Atomic certainty. Driven by WEAPONOLOGY to get the elites kids in private schools so they can be the heads of weaponology in the next generation.

With the cell phone, computer power to the masses and ChatGPT, globally all of us are asking:

“Can’t we do a better job running this planet?”

We need to find a way to make life better for ALL of us GLOBALLY. That path is dependent on the global unconscious that has been leading civilisations for centuries showing up NOW in our grandchildren.

What do they IMAGINE now in 2023″

IMAGINE John Lennon

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

I asked ChatGPT at AI:

Do all homo sapiens societies have Ethical codes:

As of my last update in September 2021, it can be generally stated that all human societies have some form of ethical codes or moral principles that guide their behavior and interactions. These ethical codes may vary significantly from one culture or society to another, but the concept of morality and ethical guidelines is nearly universal across human civilizations.
Ethical codes are often shaped by various factors, including religion, philosophy, cultural traditions, historical experiences, and practical considerations. These codes provide a framework for determining what is considered right or wrong, just or unjust, and they help maintain order and cohesion within a community or society.
It’s essential to recognize that while many ethical principles might be common across societies (e.g., prohibitions against murder, stealing, etc.), the specific values and moral guidelines can differ significantly due to cultural diversity. Ethical codes can evolve over time, reflecting changes in societal norms, and they are often subject to debates and reinterpretations.
Keep in mind that my knowledge is up to September 2021, and developments beyond that date are unknown to me. Thus, it is possible that changes or shifts in human societies may have occurred after that time.

So, all Homo sapiens societies have moral codes.

How much time do you think people spend thinking about the moral codes they use?
Ethical behaviour is based on the intrinsic value of each individual.
Homo sapiens as other species has to survive and while doing so, has to enjoy the days of life, because it is short.
We try to make sense of life and try to make it better.
Looking at life Homerically, we see a battle, the Iliad and a journey, the Odyssey.
The question is:

Where does Odysseus start to act as an individual?

Each of us who experience our self, know that it is embedded in a continuum of the empirical substratum of developing life in our Universe.

So, the task for Homo sapiens is to generate an ethical footing.
For if Homo sapiens have ethics on their minds in all cultures, then ethics must exist in the reality of the Universe we grow out of.
Pointing to that, is the role that our living brings to each of us.

It’s 3/20/22, Covid is wriggling, Russia is attacking Ukrainia with more than 4 million people having fled to neighboring countries. On Tuesday there will be a national election in Hungary with Orban, an authoritarian leader who is pro Putin now, running against a small city mayor who is pro NATO and the European Commission and democracy. No free press, the Judiciary in his control, the universities controlled by him, Orban is the favorite. We will see.

With this post I am trying to learn how to use WordPress to help me build this blog. Now I want to send all my readers to a different post/page. Let’s see if I can do that.

Yes, I can do that with a menu. I will create that now.

I created a menu and installed it on the blog. Now you will see CONSILIENCE listed on the home page because of that menu. Aha!!

Be well and enjoy spring and summer.

You may have no idea what this word means, but all the homo sapiens on Earth are headed towards it.

It requires looking at our behavior through the windows of biology, neuroscience, chemistry, electrical signals and cultures. It requires that we look at the environment with historical truths of physical changes and their results.

If you want to get a good grounding in understanding CONSILIENCE, I recommend that you read Edward O. Wilson’s book CONSILIENCE. I have read it several times and it has helped my understanding of complexities.

We want to offer some REAL information into this blog, so here we go.

Here is a schematic of the homo sapien brain. This is the tool through which we view the cosmos.

We will have to USE our brains, with the brains of all the Homo Sapiens who share this Earth with us. To get to CONSILIENCE, we will have to AGREE that there is a Universal Reality that we can examine through Scientific research and through dialogues we can get to a consiliatory conclusion of what this Universe we live in MIGHT look like, if our Science is accurate.

We will NEED to understand that our decisions and our behavior are influenced by our INDIVIDUAL understanding of what kind of Universe we live in, what it’s history has been, how our individual cultures were formed and how our Global Universal understanding is being achieved through Global Scientific research.

Let’s take a look at what the world has so far uncovered, in studying the Universe that we live in.

This an image of the Universe’s Cosmic Background Radiation. There is an interesting story about the two scientists at the Bell Labs who discovered it 1n 1965, but that will have to wait, because in 1992, the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite made the first detection analogous to seeing “mountains on the surface of the Earth”: it detected cosmological fluctuations in the microwave background temperature. That experimentation was aided by the (WMAP) Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe that was launched in 2001. When ALL the analysis was done, the scientists discovered a very SMALL difference in temperatures. The hot regions are 0.0002 degrees Kelvin hotter than the cold regions.

That caused Stephen Hawking to say it was the World’s most important discovery, because THAT was the reason we have galaxies in our Universe. WMAP wins the Fundamental Physics Award awarded to Charles L. Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David N. Spergel, and the 27 member WMAP Science Team.

Here we can see an image of the timeline of our Universe. Look at the left side and you can SEE the subatomic Flow and the Plank time that occurred immediately after the Big Bang. Notice that the afterglow LIGHT pattern emerged 400,000 years after the BB. The green sliver is the Cosmic Background Radiation.

You can read about this in the Professor Loeb’s web site: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/sciam.pdf Professor Loeb wrote: “I look up into the sky at night, I often wonder whether we humans are too preoccupied with ourselves. There is much more to the universe than meets the eye on earth. As an astrophysicist I have the privilege of being paid to think about it, and it puts things in perspective for me. There are things that I would otherwise be bothered by—my own death, for example. Everyone will die sometime, but when I see the universe as a whole, it gives me a sense of longevity. I do not care so much
about myself as I would otherwise, because of the big picture.”

Here is the big picture of the birth of the Universe.

Today, 10 March 2021, there was an obituary for, Allan McDonald, one of the Morton Thiokol engineers, who worked so hard to keep the Challenger from being launched. There was a problem with the O ring design of the missile.

Here is an image of the missile they were using:

The solid-fuel booster rockets whose failure is a cause of the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger were made by Morton Thiokol Inc. at a sprawling mountain production site a few miles east of Brigham City, and 10 miles from Promontory Point, where the western and eastern legs of the transcontinental railroad were joined in a historic ceremony May 10, 1869.

These solid fuel rockets were transported on railroad cars. And, the tunnels for these cars were built to cover the tracks that were built, the way the English built tracks. The English used the ox-cart tracks left by the Romans when they invaded England. Julius Cesar invaded in 55 BC and the Roman Empire was in England from 43 BC to 410 AD. So, the missiles were built to the width of ox-carts.

These missiles had O ring seals that could not be accurate when the launch occurred after an extended period of cold weather. These seals shrank too much to offer the protection that was needed to keep the missile together. The engineers and the scientists all knew that. NASA knew that.

The scientists and engineers could say what they wanted to say, but nobody was listening. It was like Trump with: “the pandemic will go away”. The politicians wanted that teacher in space so Reagan could show the world how COOL he was.

Because, the REAL cause of the disaster was that President Ronald Reagan intended to speak by radio to the teacher that NASA had placed on the astronaut’s crew, during his State of the Union speech that he intended to give on national TV on January 28th. I know that because WBAI reported it when this disaster struck. You can’t find it in the history of the disaster but the kids know how to do the hacking. They will find it!

The five astronauts and two payload specialists that made up the STS 51-L crew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in January of 1986. Crew members are (left to right, front row) astronauts Michael J. Smith, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee and Ronald E. McNair; and Ellison S. Onizuka, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis and Judith A. Resnik.

Christa McAuliffe—Payload Specialist, Teacher

As the other payload specialist, McAuliffe was a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire when she was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to join NASA’s Teacher in Space Project in 1985. She received a bachelor’s degree in history and education from Framingham State College in 1970 and eventually received her master’s in education, supervision, and administration from Bowie University in 1978.

While in space, McAuliffe was planning lessons to teach her students from the shuttle. Among the lessons, she was slated to give a presentation about space travel titled “Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going, Why.” After the explosion and her death, several honors were bestowed on her posthumously.

The most serious impact of Ronald Reagan on education was his failure to affirm public education as an essential need for strengthening the nation. He wanted to talk to Christa McAuliffe on national TV to boost his image.

We started out from McGuire and went to Scott AFB near Belleville, Illinois and from there we went to Forbes AFB near Topeka, Kansas. Then we went to Travis AFB. We punched out from Travis and we went to Hickam, in Honolulu and then to Wake and on to Guam.

From Guam we went to Mactan, in the Philippines. It was there at Mactan where Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a battle with the local chief, in April of 1521. From Mactan we flew to Cam Rhan Bay, in Vietnam. You can see incredible photography of what that war in Vietnam looked like in films like “Apocalypse Now” that was made by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979. But here is what Cam Rhan Bay pilots made into a film, in 1966.

From Cam Rhan, I took off with four soldiers who had some leave time, we were headed to Tachicawa AFB in Japan. We plowed threw a bunch of cloudy weather from Cam Rhan to Okinawa. When we got over Okinawa, they asked me what about Formosa. I said: “What about Formosa?” They said:”You were supposed to stop in Formosa on this trip.” I answered: “This is the first time I heard about Formosa, today.”

They said: “Hold over Okinawa, until we get you clearance to Formosa.” So, we started holding over Okinawa. I requested holding on the east side of the radio beacon, going into Okinawa on a westerly heading but that was not allowed. So, I held on the west side going into Okinawa on an easterly heading.

After 20 minutes of holding they gave me a frequency for Formosa. I called that frequency and I was talking to an American radio operator, He said: “Airman XXXX clears you to fly to the Taoyuan Air Base.” I rogered the message, and allowed the plane to continue flying to the east over the OK radio facility. In just a couple of minutes we flew into a clear sky. I looked at the heading and realized I was flying to the east. I said to my navigator:”Do you think we have enough fuel to fly to Formosa, on this heading?” He realized we would have to fly around the world on this easterly heading to get to Formosa, he said: “Turn around, I will make up an excuse.” He told the Japanese controller that he had had a compass problem and we flew back over the OK beacon and westerly towards Formosa.

It was a pitch black night when we made the approach into this base and we were flying in heavy rain. Finally we got my C-130 on the ground and taxied to a stop. After a couple of minutes, two guys in civilian clothes showed up. One of the two of them got VERY EXCITED that I had these four soldiers with me. I had NO IDEA who these guys were. But I told them that when I left from that airport the soldiers were going to be on my plane. It became clear to me in just a few minutes that these guys were from the CIA. I didn’t”t know anything about it at the time, but the CIA was running a squadron of Chinese pilots flying the TOP SECRET U2 airplane. Below is a quote from Wikipedia:

“In January 1961, the CIA provided the ROC with its first two U-2Cs, and in April the squadron flew its first mission over mainland China. Other countries were also covered from time to time by the 35th Squadron, such as North Korea,^[12] North Vietnam and Laos, but the main objective of the ROC 35th Squadron was to conduct reconnaissance missions assessing the PRC’s nuclear capabilities. For this purpose the ROC pilots flew as far as Gansu and other remote regions in northwest China. Some of the missions, due to mission requirements and range, plus to add some element of surprise, had the 35th Squadron’s U-2s flying from or recovered at other US air bases in Southeast Asia and Eastern Asia, such as K-8 (Kunsan) in South Korea, or Takhli in Thailand. All US airbases in the region were listed as emergency/ alternate recovery airfields and could be used besides the 35th Squadron’s home base at Taoyuan Air Base in Taiwan. Initially, all film taken by the Black Cat Squadron was flown to Okinawa or Guam for processing and development, and the US forces would not share any of the mission photos with Taiwan, but in late 1960s the USAF agreed to share complete sets of mission photos and help Taiwan set up a photo development and interpretation unit at Taoyuan.”

Well, after 30 minutes they came back with an engine on a roller trolley. It was all covered with blue plastic wrapped around it and the loadmaster fastened it to our cargo deck. These guys had papers in their hands. They wanted the soldiers to sign them. I told them that the soldiers had NO IDEA where they were and if they made them sign these papers it would be worse than doing nothing at all. In the end, they agreed with me and we soon left for Tachikawa, Japan.

When we got there, some other guys in civilian clothes came to our airplane. One of them asked me to forgive the kind of treatment we got in Formosa. I told him I realized that it was a high priority mission. I told him if I had known about if in Cam Rhan Bay, I would not have had the soldiers with me, but I only learned about this mission by radio over the OK beacon.