Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Taoyuan.
On the heavily guarded airbase at Taoyüan near Taipei in the north of Taiwan at least three RB-57Ds were stationed, adorned with fresh national emblems of the Taiwanese Air Force.[...]Returning to Taoyüan from a spy mission over the north of China, he started to descend earlier than was necessary.
Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West
1985 [1984], Dick van der Aart, “Strange Wings in the Stratosphere”, in Sidney Woods, transl., Spionage vanuit de lucht [Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West], New York: ARCO/Prentice Hall Press, published 1986, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 241 more example
One explanation for the heavy casualties suffered by the U-2s flying to or from Taoyüan, amounting to five planes, was the difficulty in concealing the aircraft movements, especially takeoffs, from an airfield only 90 miles from the Chinese coast and under constant hostile radar and signals surveillance.[...]Another complication was the duration of the U-2 flights flown to or from Taoyüan, which might take up to 12 hours to complete a 3,000-mile round-trip, and the fact that some target areas, such as the nuclear installations in the far northeast, could not be reached from the airfields in India and Pakistan.
2012, I. C. Smith, Nigel West, Historical Dictionary of Chinese Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 273
Origin
From Wade–Giles.
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