Faggot In Chiang Mai

[Blinky Bill]

I'm out of town at this time but was recently talking with a friend about old aircraft. He informed me that the Aviation Museum at Chiang Mai Airport had recently acquired a Mig 15 "Faggot" fighter aircraft.

I find this a little hard to believe and was wondering if any TV members had heard of this story or perhaps seen the aircraft at the airport. I have seen a number of Mig 21 "Fishbed" fighters and the Chinese equivalent, J-7 whilst working in some 3rd world countries but never a Mig 15, they were quite an aircraft in their day.

[jackr]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

[anonymouse]

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[Blinky Bill]

Sounds like a bit of fun, anonymouse. I never quite reached Mach 1 on the old ZZR, best go to Russia and spend US$10K for a 30 minute flight. Here it is. Sure beats climbing a pyramid.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Blinky Bill

[Jingthing]

I think you mean FAGOT, one G.

[Kan Win]

Ohh dear, ohh dear, what with a "Faggot In Chiang Mai" Kan a

join in as well

Sawadee

[Farma]

I think BB was following your "A sexy headline always draws them in ..." idea when he started this thread JT.

Don't worry BB over mach 1 doesn't feel any different to other speeds except when you're down low.

[Jingthing]

I think BB was following your "A sexy headline always draws them in ..." idea when he started this thread JT.

Roger that.

Edited January 12, 2010 by Jingthing

[Theo007]

I always thought that a " faggot fighter " was someone who didn't like gays!

[Jingthing]

I always thought that a " faggot fighter " was someone who didn't like gays!

No, its when a Brit uses a cigarette as a weapon of ash destruction.

[neverdie]

I think you mean FAGOT, one G.

[neverdie]

I think BB was following your "A sexy headline always draws them in ..." idea when he started this thread JT.

Roger that.

Did you say you would Rodger that?

[Jingthing]

Settle down, children.

[purplehaze]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

It looks like a F-86 Sabre not sure what model you have to look at the difference between the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[Paagai]

I think BB was following your "A sexy headline always draws them in ..." idea when he started this thread JT.

He got me, I was half way to the airport lookiing for faggot fun before I realized........

[Phil Conners]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

It looks like a F-86 Sabre not sure what model you have to look at the difference between the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Yeah, they're very similar. Here's a Sabre. Wonder who copied who

[Flatouthruthefog]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

It looks like a F-86 Sabre not sure what model you have to look at the difference between the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The Sabre (maybe a Super Sabre) is indeed a gate guardian, sitting at the airforce entrance immediately opposite the main terminal exit road. Been there for at least 15 years.

[trainman34014]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

It looks like a F-86 Sabre not sure what model you have to look at the difference between the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The Sabre (maybe a Super Sabre) is indeed a gate guardian, sitting at the airforce entrance immediately opposite the main terminal exit road. Been there for at least 15 years.

The Gate Guardian is an F86 Sabre which is entirely different to an F100 Super Sabre.

[angiud]

Nice piece of (old) machine

[Jingthing]

I think BB was following your "A sexy headline always draws them in ..." idea when he started this thread JT.

He got me, I was half way to the airport lookiing for faggot fun before I realized........

Made me look too.

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Yeah, they're very similar. Here's a Sabre. Wonder who copied who

They both copied the basic design of a German Jet fightr that was designed around the time WW2 ended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_183

[trainman34014]

Yeah, they're very similar. Here's a Sabre. Wonder who copied who

They both copied the basic design of a German Jet fightr that was designed around the time WW2 ended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focke-Wulf_Ta_183

Virtually all the German aircraft designers and scientists ended up in the U.S at the end of WW2. That's why U.S. aircraft design made such rapid forward progress during the 50's/60's. The F86 Sabre used a lot of input from the German 'Komet' design. Former German 'V1' and 'V2' Flying Bomb and Rocket scientists were also heavily involved in progressing U.S. space exploration.

[Blinky Bill]

The old F86 Sabre Gate Guard has been at the Air Force entrance since I started working at Chiang Mai Airport in 1983. It's not at the Museum I was referring to. The museum is located within the airport towards to Suthep Road end.

They have some interesting old aircraft at the Museum, however, I would be very surprised to see a Faggot there, but you never know.

[anonymouse]

They have some interesting old aircraft at the Museum, however, I would be very surprised to see a Faggot there, but you never know.

Looking at Wikipedia's page on the MIG15 it mentions 'Many MiG-15s are on display through the world. In addition, they are becoming increasingly common as private sport planes and warbirds'

Also from the large amount of places it saw operations in are Cambodia & Vietnam, so I'm not sure it would be that suprising, saying that I thought the Museum [never been there] was for aicraft that have been used by the Thai Airforce.

[Limbo]

Sorry for interrupting, but I think this might be the thread I could ask for information about an old airplane

in the middle of nowhere not far from Chiang Rai.

The only thing I know so far is this:

HS-CHP Beech H-18 Trigear c/n BA-667 ex N906T

[to be flown to Philippines for demonstration by Beech & possible sale Mar-64; export CofA issued 4-Mar-64 on export to Philippines,

but presumably not used; ferry tank installed & ferry permit applied for by FloAir Inc 28-Aug-64; export CofA issued 28-Aug-64 on

export to Philippines; sold to Continental Air Services Inc 15-Nov-65; sold to Bo Larsson & Joseph A, Johnson (Reno, Nv.)11-Mar-77;

sold to Sunant Prasertsom t/a Sky of Siam (Bangkok) 22-Mar-77; canx 23-Mar-77]; R03-Jun-77 to Sunant & Co t/a Sky of Siam;

propeller hit ground on take-off in Phetchabun Province & substantially damaged 5-Nov-77; noted 1984 as "Sununt 9"; bt by Mr.Boonyong

Thiraworawong at auction, probably Mar-86; noted wfu by roadside north of Bangkok 1986 thro’ Aug-88 wearing ‘Yon Thai Tractor Co’ titles

in Sky of Siam livery

On internet I don't find a Beechcraft Super 18 with a nose wheel and not either with the same engines.

Do you think that the plane was new in 1964?

What is a 'ferry tank'?

What does 'noted wfu' by roadside north aso mean?

By the way: Before at the museum in Chiang Mai the engines were run once a week, do they still do so and when?

Sorry for asking all these questions, but it would be great to know more about this aircraft.

Another thing:

If I am informed right the airport of Bangkok is the oldest in Thailand (Siam), 1918?

The second airport is upposed to be Chiang Rai (1920?) and the third Chiang Mai (1921).

What I understand is that the son of the gouvernor of Chiang Rai studied in Paris and showed his father

some pictures of an airplane when he came back to Chiang Rai.

Together with some friends this gentleman bought an airplane and made a kind of airport, probably at the same place

where now the old airport is (the Japanese moved it north east of the Doi Kao Quai for strategical reasons, but after the

war the Americans made the 1750 meter strip were it is now).

Could the first plane here been a French one?

Thanks for thinking about it and even more for an answer 555!

Limbo

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[Pdaz]

Not sure of the model but there's a similar chunk of shit parked out front

It looks like a F-86 Sabre not sure what model you have to look at the difference between the zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Yeah, they're very similar. Here's a Sabre. Wonder who copied who

Answer: They both copied the Germans... Both the Rooskies and the Allies relied heavily on research and designs brought by captured German engineers and scientists after the fall of Hitlers Reich..