Aside from couping the country :-(, Royal Thai Armed Force always display their weapon in their inventory in the children’s Day on the second saturday of January. Like every year, RTAF display and fly their aircraft to encourage and light the dream of young Thai to become pilot when they grow up. (and it’s working very well. We alway have 20,000 boy compete for about 100 seat of each force in the armed force academy)
This year the show is bigger bacause our 92-year-old Don Mueang Airport is phased out. So we have plenty of time and air space for air demonstration.
Well, I use Fuji S9600 for this even and I can’t caught airbone image well. So most of photo is the ground action. And in my country, everyone put some sentence and name in their photo for the copyright reason. I apologise for this.
F-5E Tigres. It’s Israeli-modification of F-5E. New features include DASH and Python-4.
L-39 ZA/ART. Use israeli avionic.
AU-23A Peacemaker. It’s base on PC-6. USAF aims to sell to South Vietnam. But due to the quality of North Vietname air defense, it’s never happen. And Thailand buy all of them to counter the communist terrorist during cold war.
Now we use as FAC, reconnaissance and for air show. (Create Thai Flag in the sky) RTAF has Peacemaker a detachment in 3 southern provinces.
F-16A. 103 Sqn.
This jet bought under the Peace Naresuan I.
Line up after the flight.
The demonstration include 2 vs. 1 dog fight and single-jet aerobatic flight. I will post air shot later.
Alphajet A. Ex-German. Use for attacking role.
L-39 in flight.
UH-1H demonstrate rescue mission.
RTAF hire Israel to upgrade and extend its service life.
They will be replaced soon.
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January 16, 2007 at 4:16 am