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There were only 2 piston-engine planes successfully converted into jet-engine designs.Yak-15Converted Yak-3 with Jumo-004 engineAnd here is Yak-3:As you can see, an engine was ‘replaced’ creating a bit strange pull- jet engine configuration.J-21RThe second one was Swedish J-21R, which was converted J-21.And piston engine J-21:These two are very similar, don’t you think? If you’d be very stubborn you might even put a radar and some electronics in front of the plane, instead of the guns.However both planes lacked structural durability required of jet-engine planes. Also a modern plane is not only about engine - it has to have certain level of stability, fuel consumption, electronics etc. As for a bomber - most world war 2 piston engine bombers would fall apart at speeds required to make a jet engine efficient.Finally, let’s look at the sizes of (less or more) modern jets, as in length/wingspan/empty mass:Av-8B Harrier - 14.5m/9.25m/6340kgMig-21bis - 14.7m/7.15m/5339kgMig-29 - 17.32m/11.36m/11000kgF-16 Block52 - 15.06m/9.96kg/8573kgAnd WW2 piston engine planes:Spitfire MkVb - 9.12 m/11.23 m/2,297 kgP-47D40 - 11.02 m/12.43m/4,536 kgTu-2 M-82 - 13.8m/18.86m/7,601kgAvro Lancaster I - 21.13 m/31.09 m/16,738 kgAs you can see, jets have sizes more comparable to WW2 bombers then fighters. That’s how much space you need to pack all necessary instruments inside a modern plane.So no - you can’t convert Ford T to F1 bolid.All pics from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes they are close, if you compare the Human Development Index (HDI) which measure things like average life expectancy, income and education. Malaysia’s HDI score is 7.89 and Thailand’s HDI is 7.4. Both falls into the ‘high’ category.The average life expectancy are about the same. Thailand even surpassed Malaysia in areas such as adult literacy rate and poverty reduction (only 1.23% of the population live below the poverty line compared to Malaysia’s 2.9%).List of countries by percentage of population living in poverty - WikipediaWhere Thailand still lags far behind is the average income and wealth distribution. The very remote parts of Thailand are still poverty stricken, including the many farming villages in the north and north east and remote fishing villages in the south.However Greater Bangkok with a population of 14–15 million accounts for only about 21% of the country's population versus Greater KL which accounts for 27% of Malaysia’s population. The west coast of peninsular Malaysia is also generally more developed than the east coast.While Bangkok is the major centre for growth, development in regional areas have far outpaced Bangkok over the past 15 years, especially the north-east Isan region which experienced average GDP growth of 40% between 2007–2011.Major Thai cities such as Nakhon Ratchasima, Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen, Pattaya, Had Yai, Cha-Am/Hua Hin, Phuket are comparable to major cities in Malaysia. They have modern airports, ports hospitals and amenities like these…Shopping mallsRing roads and motorwaysPaved roadsUniversities (photo of Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai)Even Buriram, until recently one of the poorest provinces in Isan now have an F1 track and is hosting Thailand's first MotoGP in 2018.Comparing current & future infrastructure investment in Thailand and MalaysiaNo doubt Malaysia is still expanding its existing, relatively developed infrastructure. Notable projects include the new east-west rail link from Port Klang to Kuantan and various projects under the umbrella of the National Transformation Program which carries through development aspirations in Wawasan 2020 (Malaysia Vision 2020).Malaysia also attracted massive foreign investment from China, including various railways, ports and real estate projects such as Bandar Malaysia and Forest City in Johor Bahru. The diagram below shows some of the projects currently in the pipeline.The Thai military government is also embarking on massive infrastructure spending, $66 billion over the the next five years to develop transport and logistic infrastructure plus $45 billion to develop the Eastern Economic Corridor.The amount of investment in infrastructure is mind boggling. Just to round off the main ones:Major upgrades to airports and ports infrastructure, including expansion of Suvarnabhumi Airport to handle 90 million passengers per year and development of reguonal airports.Quadrupling of Bangkok’s MRT network from 111km today to over 500km.Expansion of the motorway network (minimum four lane controlled access highways) to over 500km and ultimately over 4,000km to develop the northern and southern economic corridors as per the Greater Mekong Sub-region plan, connecting Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.Dual tracking of metre gauge railways for passengers and freights. Three high speed rail lines to the north, north-east and east.Construction of mass transit systems in various citiesInfrastructure investment is an area where Thailand is surging ahead of Malaysia. Vietnam is developing at an even faster pace if you look at the percentage of infrastructure spending as % of GDP.So to be fair, the development gap between the two countries are not that significant in the big cities which are benefitting from these investments. Where Thailand is lagging behind Malaysia is the average income and development gap between the urban and rural regions, the urban rich and the rural poor.

I'm from Vietnam, in the heart of Vietnam - Hanoi, my friends are in Europe, Australia, Japan, Korea so I may know a thing or two here. It’s been nearly a month since the top voted comment was written and things have changed dramatically.I know most of you wouldn’t care much about what Vietnam did but here are few things that kept us safe (so far) being right next to China (btw, we got most of the cases now from Europe and US, not from China):- We stopped panic buying from early stage, this is now the fourth wave that hit us (updated). First was people coming back from Wuhan (those managed before city lockdown); second wave is after 21 days without new cases, we had a flight back from Europe with British nationals and a few infected (at the time all flight quarantine has not been forced); third wave is right after that when WHO announced global pandemic.- We acted really quickly, involved the military and we had experiences with CDC from previous Sars, H1N1- People wearing masks, washing hands since the first wave. Most shown support with the goverment decisions from early days.- Quarantine is now a must with all new arrival flights, all will be tested.- Schools are closed since late January and will be probably till late April- We have developed a quick test kit ourselves and so everyone from F1 to F3 can be tested - not the mass testing like in Korea but since both measures are used, we can minimize the test cases, yet can detect the cases as soon as possible (F0 is the patient infected). And testing is FREE; treament of the infected is FREE. Everyone should be tested is tested (F0-F1-F2), those should be self quarantined at home (F3) are being quarantined. Others take cautions but not panic.- Social media, smart phone apps and local authority also helped with identifying, tracking who the patients meet with, where have the gone to (dining, gym, clubbing…) - that is before we closed down bars/pubs/gym/social-gathering activities.- Sometimes community quarantine is used, the whole block, the whole district or the whole apartment building is locked down; we provide free food and basic neccesities for those being quarantined.- Now we are fighting the 4th wave, with number rising to 113 cases as the time of this answer but I’m confident with what we are doing.From my point of view, the approach was to spread the burden to the whole society rather than forcing a few dozen of thousands medical staff to fight with infected. I think in most countries, not just poor or rich, once you reached 1000 cases being in the ICU, you’re literally overloaded your medical system, period. We don’t want that so we choose to prevent that; everyone shares a bit of the annoyance (being quarantined, staying home to take care of the children, less socializing, reduced short-term income and so on…) but the medical front don’t have to be overloaded.Just remember, regardless of how rich you are, once your medical force are overloaded, you’re left in the hand of mother nature.To everyone who’s reading, stay safe, stay strong and stay positive! well, not corona-positive of course :)