Xiewenda was the student in the first period of Taichung First High School . After he graduated from the school, he went to Japan Yiteng Flight School located at Jintianzhao Coast of Chiba research and study the flight technique and graduated with excellent grades.
On the 2 nd of August, 1920 , he took an non-govenmental flight contest in Zhouqi of Tokyo. He piloted the plane of Yiteng style named Huimei Number Five with the hight of 1400 meters and the speed of 120 kilometers to win the third reward.
Later in Novermber of 1922, the ¡¨Empire Flight Association¡¨ in Japan held a flight contest for postal matters with the distance between Tokyo and Osaka, Xiewenda won the reward of 3000 Japanese Yen by the records of threehours forty-seven minutes and three hours fifty-five minutes on the journey to and fro
In 1923, the third ¡§Movement of Achieving Taiwan Parliament¡¨ presented a petition in Tokyo . Xiewenda piloted an plane on the air of Tokyo and floated hundred thousands of leaflets to express support for this movement. The words on the leaflets are: ¡§The people in Taiwan are continuously groaning beneath the savage politics¡¨ and ¡§Give Taiwan a parliament¡¨. Such words are hamful to Japanes Autocratic Militarism.
After this courageous action, Xiewenda left for Mainland China to offer his service to the air force and have served successively as the Aviation Leader of the Army in Honan, the Commander of Nanchang Airport, the Instructor of the Flight School in Guangzhou. Later he met with the plane accident and fell over to a serious injury in the war to go on a punitive expedition to Lizongren and retired from military service in the rank of lieutenant colonel. |
