How Southeast Asians upcycled remnants of the Vietnam War
Posted by staff / November 2, 2013 Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asians upcycledthe Vietnam War
The sight of U.S. aircraft over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War was not always a welcome one, to say the least, but since that time, the people of these countries have made the most of what those jets left behind.
According to The Aviationist:
In real combat, external fuel tanks are jettisoned when empty or as soon as the aircraft needs to get rid of them to accelerate and maneuver against an enemy fighter plane or to evade a surface to air missile.
Several thousand drop tanks were jettisoned over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
And here you can see what happened to some of those that were recovered.
Though they might have been extraneous to the planes, it appears they were built to last.
Full story at The Aviationist via Neatorama.
Left behind in Vietnam also thousands of bomb craters doted from north to south, eventually converted into man-made ponds by the peasants for peaceful purposes of fisheries and ducks husbandry. The only thing that these poor people can’t make use off, worse yet continue to harm them are unexploded military ordnance… and Agent Orange.
[…] The sight of U.S. aircraft over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War was not always a welcome one, to say the least, but since that time, the people of these countries have made the most of what those jets left behind. […]