Rimmer Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Shock and awe as fighter jet rolls down Sukhumvit Road SATTAHIP:--From bookcases on the back of motorbikes to pickups stacked twice their height with aluminum cans, we here in Thailand are used to seeing odd things on the roads, but a AV-8S Harrier jump jet rolling down Sukhumvit Road had everyone talking. Formerly part of the air wing for the HTMS Chakri Naruebet, the British-built jet was moved July 22 to the Royal Thai Marine Corps Museum. The jet had been mothballed in a hanger at the corps’ Jetsada camp for some time. The journey was slow and difficult. An electric cart, normally used to jockey airplanes or luggage trains around an airport, towed the plane 10 kilometers over two hours with residents lining the street, snapping away with cameras and phones. The jet had been one of nine on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts. - See more at: http://www.pattayamail.com/localnews/shock-and-awe-as-fighter-jet-rolls-down-sukhumvit-road-39965#sthash.eRaGcbS8.dpuf -- Pattaya Mail 2014-08-01 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just1Voice Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Ahh, yes, buy the world's smallest aircraft carried, with 9 planes you can't get parts for. That's why it's now a floating museum. Amazing Thailand! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I used to tow Buccaneers when I was in the RAF. Pulling is fairly easy, Pushing is a different ball game altogether. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoePai Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Why not just drop it onto the back of a low loader and drive the thing there in a fraction of the time ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Payboy Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 Is that the pilot in the pic ready to eject and flee the scene in the event of an accident? 24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konying Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Is that the pilot in the pic ready to eject and flee the scene in the event of an accident? He is steering the plane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx22cb Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 2 hours? Surely they should have done this at 2 am. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post A1Str8 Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 Wow. Airplane. Sent from my GT-I9500 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post casualbiker Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 2 hours? Surely they should have done this at 2 am. They only decided to move it 30 minutes beforehand! :-D Sent from my XT1032 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post billd766 Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 Is that the pilot in the pic ready to eject and flee the scene in the event of an accident? He is steering the plane The driver of the tug in front is hitched to the nosewheel and HE is steering it. There is no need for anybody in the cockpit at all as the aircraft had been "mothballed" and it will have no hydraulic power nor air, oxygen, nitrogen or fuel on board anyway. The aircraft is a Hawker Siddley Harrier built in the UK and not a McDonnell Douglas AV8 even though the AV8 is licence built. The Harriers were retired in 2006 some 8 years ago. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Pity it cannot also make a tour of other parts of the country, en-route to the museum, I'd love to see it ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iReason Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "...on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JoeThePoster Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 I see that Toyota van driver is trying to sneak past on the inside left as usual. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm jeff Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 HEY NUNG ! What does this red button do ? -- PUSH -- OOPS. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "...on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts." Oh, but Revealed: Plane at heart of £3bn aircraft carrier launch is a fake as real models are years behind schedule DEFENCE chiefs used a fake plane made of plastic to give the appearance of the £3bn HMS Queen Elizabeth being put to use. An aircraft carrier without planes is the perfect metaphor for Britain's diminished global status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchurch259 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 (edited) For those who have not worked aircraft, while towing and aircraft the nose steering is disconnected ot by-passed and the tow bar provides directions as it tows. During towing there is usually some one to apply the aircraft brakes should the tow-bar breaks or becomes disconnected. A Low-boy or Driop Deck Trailer would have been better, of course I was a trucker as well as aircraft mechanic. I doubt if they ask anyone. Edited August 1, 2014 by gchurch259 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vogie Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I used to tow Buccaneers when I was in the RAF. Pulling is fairly easy, Pushing is a different ball game altogether. Wow, really 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhawk Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 It happens that you run out of spare parts and end in overhelming maintenance costs when you buy all the things others throw on the market for the same reason above,or give away for free and you want to present to have the only aircraft carrier in the region, misunderstood pride, to appear more than you can hold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bananafish Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 I opened this thread from the email, just to see a picture, seen the picture of the plane and closed the tab. Then I thought, "Hmm, I wonder how many posts before somebody starts remarking about how crap Thailand are in this thread". So I reopened the closed tab, first reply insulting Thailand. Ah, thaivisa.com 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showbags Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Submarine next sunday.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 "...on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts." what is so funny about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Perhaps because those problems -- lack of maintenance, age and scarcity of spare parts -- seem to be so emblematic of so much of the infrastructure around these parts. How many thousands of times have we heard those same issues before in all variety of settings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOTIRIOS Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I see that Toyota van driver is trying to sneak past on the inside left as usual. ...yes...and white cars are the worst... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rorri Posted August 1, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted August 1, 2014 Just1Voice, on 01 Aug 2014 - 16:19, said:Ahh, yes, buy the world's smallest aircraft carried, with 9 planes you can't get parts for. That's why it's now a floating museum. Amazing Thailand! Two years after purchasing them eight were unserviceable, I do not know how much longer the remaining one flew for, but with the inability to maintain them, I would not have liked to have been the pilot. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorri Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Naam, on 01 Aug 2014 - 18:46, said: iReason, on 01 Aug 2014 - 17:25, said: "...on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts." what is so funny about it? The Thai media have nicknamed it the Thai-tanic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveling Sailor Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Why not just drop it onto the back of a low loader and drive the thing there in a fraction of the time ? But Joe, that would take thought and planning. TIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Naam, on 01 Aug 2014 - 18:46, said: iReason, on 01 Aug 2014 - 17:25, said: "...on Thailand’s only aircraft carrier, which now has just a handful of working planes due to lack of maintenance, age and a scarcity of spare parts." what is so funny about it? The Thai media have nicknamed it the Thai-tanic. how is the cost overrun of GBP 2.55 billion =110 billion Baht (and counting) of the two unfinished British carriers called? Brit-Tanic? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonthai Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 hanger is in the wardrobe, hangar is for airplanes. but an automatic spellchecker, a lot of thai and many brits don't know the difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Just1Voice, on 01 Aug 2014 - 16:19, said:Ahh, yes, buy the world's smallest aircraft carried, with 9 planes you can't get parts for. That's why it's now a floating museum. Amazing Thailand! Two years after purchasing them eight were unserviceable, I do not know how much longer the remaining one flew for, but with the inability to maintain them, I would not have liked to have been the pilot. Is there any particular reason they CANNOT get the parts needed for maintenance, or, just can't be bothered and wouldn't know what to do with them if they had them??? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oziex1 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Is that the pilot in the pic ready to eject and flee the scene in the event of an accident? Seems to be the only one looking forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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