去年十二月我在北京旅行的时候去了中国人民革命军事博物馆(下面简称‘军博’)。军博位于北京西部复兴路,离故宫五公里左右。 我在军博里参观了第一层和负一层两个展区。这里的陈列内容包括很多类型的兵器装备像飞机,大炮,舰船,导弹和坦克。还有美国和日本造的飞机,大炮和坦克。下面有五张由我拍摄的照片。 军博的氛围不是充满火药味的,而是平静和庄重。我在军博的时候是唯一的‘老外’,不过其他的参观者和军博工做人员都很友好。 军博的网站很有用(m.jb.mil.cn)。网站的内容包括军博简介,基本阵列,主题展览,研究成果,艺术创作等30个栏目。还有7个基本陈列网上展馆:古代战争馆,近代战争馆,土地革命战争馆,抗日战争馆,全面解放战争馆,新中国国防和军队建设成就馆和军事艺术馆。 ‘功勋喷气式歼击机’ – 这架飞机是王海(中国人民志愿军空军的战斗英雄)驾驶过的苏联造的米格飞机。据展品的注释,王海的飞行大队击落击伤敌机29架。王海本人驾机击落击伤敌机9架。王海被志愿军总部授予‘志愿军一级战斗英雄’称号。据百度百科,王海现在还活着,今年九十二岁了。 ‘英雄的215号坦克’ – 这辆坦克是苏联造T-34/85中型坦克。据展品的注释,这辆坦克在抗美援朝战争中,共击毁敌人重型坦克5辆,化学迫击炮9门和汽车一辆。这辆坦克也完成了7次配合步兵作战任务。为此,中国人民志愿军领导机关授予全体成员集体特等功。 ‘美国造U-2高空侦察机残骸‘ – 美国高空侦察机是20世纪50年代美国洛克希德公司研制的高空战略侦察机。1962年9月9日中国空军地空导弹部队首次击落一架U-2高空侦察机。至1967年9月,空军地空导弹部队共击落5架U-2侦察机。这架飞机残骸是由四架飞机残骸拼成的。 ‘美国造M4A3谢尔曼中型坦克’ – 1950年12月抗美援朝战斗时期第二次战役中这辆美国坦克是于朝鲜介川地区缴获美军的。 ‘中国造轰-6轰炸机’ – 这架飞机是中国仿制苏联图-16双发高亚音速中程轰炸机的战斗飞机。 Michael Ingle – michaelingle01@gmail.com
Housing
The LibDems: A Need for Fresh Thinking
The 2015 UK election was truly a debacle for the Liberal Democrat party, of which I am a member. The LibDems now have only eight MPs in the House of Commons (down from 57), and their share of the vote… Read More ›
Planning Restrictions Are Driving Us To Extremes
Almost everyone in the UK agrees that we need to build more houses, indeed many more houses, if we are to provide adequate, and affordable, housing for those who need it. Last year we built 140,000 new houses, but it… Read More ›
The UK Election Campaign Comes to Life
The campaign for the UK election, which will be held on 7th May, is at last showing signs of life. The campaign proper only started on 30th March, after a lengthy ‘phony campaign’ which had been going on since Christmas…. Read More ›
Up the revolution…but do not tamper with the Green Belt!
Club and gallery owner Alex Proud published an article in the Telegraph yesterday in which he suggested “10 ways we can fix the UK”. It was an iconoclastic list, verging on the revolutionary, including such ideas as: make it illegal not… Read More ›
Second visit to the London green belt – Dagenham
My second visit to the London green belt was to Dagenham, in east London. This is not such a salubrious area as Hadley Wood, the site of my first visit, but there is a substantial area of green belt very… Read More ›
A visit to the green belt at Hadley Wood, Enfield (North East London)
I recently visited part of London’s green belt, in the area of Hadley Wood. This was one of a series of trips I have made to areas around the capital where urgently needed new housing might be built if local councils… Read More ›
Building on the green belt: Nicky Gavron no, David Lammy yes
A major divide has opened up in the London Labour establishment between Nicky Gavron (Labour Chair of the London Assembly Planning Committee) and David Lammy (first declared candidate for the London Mayoralty election in 2016). Nicky Gavron’s view Nicky Gavron… Read More ›
How could they build more houses in the 20s and 30s than now?
At a time when we are barely able to build 130,000 houses a year in the UK, it is interesting to note that we managed to build more houses, indeed many more houses, each year during the 1920s and 30s…. Read More ›
Party Policies on the Greenbelt – Summing Up
This is the last of my series on the main parties’ policies for building houses in the greenbelt. A disappointing roundup In summary, no party is currently proposing any relaxation in restrictions on the use of greenbelt land for housebuilding…. Read More ›
The LibDems and the Greenbelt
Continuing my series of blogs on the parties’ pre-election policies on greenbelt housebuilding, I now turn to the Liberal Democrats. I admit to a personal interest here, as I am a LibDem member and activist. ‘Pre-Manifesto” Housing Policy The LibDems… Read More ›
Tories and the Greenbelt
It is not necessary to wait until the Conservative Party publishes its formal election Manifesto to know its policy on greenbelt housebuilding. We have known what it will be since 4th October 2014, when Eric Pickles and Brandon Lewis issued… Read More ›
UKIP and the Green Party agree: they do not want building on greenbelt land
UKIP and Green Party Policies on Greenbelt Housebuilding In my post of 14th November, I said I would be reviewing the policies of the major UK parties in relation to housebuilding on greenbelt land. I am starting with the Green… Read More ›
Will the Post May 2015 UK Government Permit Housebuilding on the Greenbelt?
Proposals for more UK housebuilding Many UK politicians, particularly from the Tory, LibDem and Labour parties, are promising to build more houses after the next election in May 2015 – whether it is 200,000 a year, 250,000 or even 300,000…. Read More ›