Loiwing
Hello,I have a question.Where was Loiwing ?There is not a place named "Loiwing" on modern China map I have.Map of Flying Tigers (1991 Smithsonian edition)- p36, after Nanjing and Hankou were lost:"So...
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Vadenstick,Well, I can wait, for two or three weeks, or even a few years !!But am now having fun with FSX these days.Does it have some semblance of this ?I think this picture-view is too wide to be a...
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Yes. Not as wide. Those are the two mountain ranges. Left side is the Shweli River gorge, but the bridge is not seen, or the Shweli.On the right side is where Panhkam Post Office village is, but...
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Kunming-based journalist Ge Shuya traveled to Loiwing about ten years ago and found what remains of the factory there, just part of a forge or furnace stamped "CAMCO". He says that there is nothing...
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I think that's right. From reading Chuck Hunter about the creation of the factory, and Gordon Seagrave about how it came to be his neighbor (Seagrave's hospital was across the border in Burma), I got...
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Loiwing is on the Burma map NF 47-2. The trouble is, it's written in Mandarin. Neither "loi" nor "wing" are possible Mandarin syllables, although similar syllables occur in other Chinese dialects...
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Wow! The Col. C.L. book is certainly a find! And it's a wonderful example of what happens when you render Chinese into English. On the very first page is a photo of Duke Hedman, who is rendered Dark...
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In a letter written by Mamie Porritt, a secretary at the CAMCO factory in Loiwing, she mentions that Man-wing is a village "about five miles from here."
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Recently I revisited Loiwing area on Google Earth and noticed a good picture. The Lady and the Tigers (Olga Gleenlaw, edited by Daniel Ford) p190: Olga and Harvey visit Loiwing.... "We drove about 100...
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Out of the low resolution mists around the Loiwing area on Google Earth has appeared in good detail most of a 11-29 runway at N23°52.72 E97°39.90. Elev displays as 745 m (2448 feet). Length might be...
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Many thanks. I then went looking for the jail in Insein where Aung San Suu Kyi is being held and tried, but couldn't find it.
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Try N16.892715 E96.098099 per http://www.satellitesights.com/satelliteimage/Insein_Prison_Yangon_Myanmar
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If I had seen that scary looking place before I went on the black market in 1986, I never would have bought all those cartons of cigarettes! (There was a commissary in Rangoon that was evidently for...
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Thanks to Hak Hakanson in Thailand, here is a map of the CAMCO/AVG airfield at Loiwing. The caption identifies Loiwing as "a town of JuilrlMeng" (can't be sure of the lettering "lrl"). Elevation 700...
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And here is the same area as shown on the current Operational Navigation Chart. The town or region identified as JUI-LI is almost certainly the location of the CAMCO field. Too bad the chart breaks at...
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And here's the ONC for the Burma side. I don't remember when I wrote in LOIWING, but perhaps when this discussion first started. The airfield is supposed to be at about 2300 feet, but I don't think...
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Never mind! Hak Hakanson has made a positive ID. The runway is easily visible (though much narrowed) at N23°53.92 E97°37.40 a little over a mile NW of Leiyun, which would have been a reasonable...
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Cubdriver wrote: You know, that runway is almost exactly the length of the grass field at Hampton NH where I used to fly a Piper Cub. Many Cessna 172 pilots declined to land at Hampton because they...
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Well, they were probably city guys. My wildest flying was actually in New Jersey, which despite its reputation ("The Sopranos") has a gorgeous rural aspect up on the Pennsylvania border. It was a bush...
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