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Thailand is one of the top travel destinations for Taiwanese. Last year, there were 789,923 arrivals from Taiwan to Thailand. For those who bothered to make the trip to the Royal Thai Air Force museum in Don Muang, they will be able to find four former Taiwanese F-5As there.
Continue reading “Strange tale of Taiwan’s F-5As in Thailand”
The 39th Flying Training Squadron’s T-6 flagship was recently repainted to match the scheme of the P-51 Mustang flown during WW2 by Capt. Leroy Grosshuesch.
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The first AC-130W gunship to record a combat kill, # 1303, has been flown to its final home at Sheppard AFB, Texas whereby it will become a ground instructional trainer for ammo and armament students in the 363rd Training Squadron as well as crew chief student in the 362nd Training Squadron.
On Apr. 3, 1975, two former South Vietnam Air Force C-130A pilots stole one of the aircraft and flew it to Singapore in order for them and their families to escape from the invading North Vietnames forces.
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Three people aboard warbird “Old Glory” were able to walk out of the B-25 when the plane made a crash landing at around 7:30 p.m. into an irrigation ditch in Stockton on Spet. 20.