F4U-5 Corsair Burning up the Field
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ppragman
No pasa nada.
Just homo-sapien.
I actually laughed at that one. Touche sir, touche.
Firebird2XC
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I prefer to call it "pioneering spirit". Try near anything once, right? How else are you supposed to get flight attendants to agree to ... things?
USMCmech
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Wouldn't that just look/sound magnificent with a turbine instead?
Somebody slap him.
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
NOT MY FRIGGIN' IDEA!
You won't find anyone more in love with a radial up front and a tailwheel in back than I.
XLR99
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Based on this pic (borrowed from Wix-great thread about F4U-5s), it looks like it already has one as an accessory behind the radial:Wouldn't that just look/sound magnificent with a turbine instead?
http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c21/astixjr/F4U-5NL BU123168/scan0072.jpg
The turbo looks like they borrowed one from a hydroelectric plant or something....
What's the P51 with turbine that Piper made? I remember seeing it at the NMUSAF.
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Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
PA-48 Enforcer.
It was actually the end of a line of Counterinsurgency P-51s that were designed/modified/built by Cavalier Aircraft Corporation of Sarasota, FL.
This was the first one, the Cavalier Turbo Mustang III (1968):
This was the second one, the Piper PE-1 Enforcer (1971):
And the one you saw at NMUSAF, the Piper PA-48 Enforcer (1983):
Hacker15e
Who am I? Where are my pants?
An idea that was WAY ahead of it's time and would be right at home in Iraq and Afghanistan (see: AT-6B).
Considering how toxic the A-10 was up to Desert Storm (and even some extent between that and 9/11), there's no way the AF would have ever kept them in service long enough to have made it to OEF or OIF. The AF hated the airplane from the beginning...and in typical style, is burning all kinds of money and effort in 2010 to come up with a turboprop-powered COIN aircraft!
I can even vaguely remember in the early '80s when the plane was getting tested......there were articles in magazines here and there about it. And one article in particular I remember, an AF guy was quoted as saying that no matter how good this plane would perform, because it has a prop and a tailwheel, it was dead to the USAF. And what a shame too, as there is a great use for an aircraft like that. I would say for a Sandy-style escort, but really the whole CSARTF concept is rapidly dying on the vine today just as it did post-Vietnam. Saw that as a Sandy myself, and now from the other side as a Jolly.
FullDeflection
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ryan1234
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An idea that was WAY ahead of it's time and would be right at home in Iraq and Afghanistan (see: AT-6B).
Considering how toxic the A-10 was up to Desert Storm (and even some extent between that and 9/11), there's no way the AF would have ever kept them in service long enough to have made it to OEF or OIF. The AF hated the airplane from the beginning...and in typical style, is burning all kinds of money and effort in 2010 to come up with a turboprop-powered COIN aircraft!
Looks like the gear would be the weak point there if operating out of a rough environment.
rwgb1984
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Keeping our goals small are we. ;-)
