OFFICIAL ROLL CALL!
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From: Fort Polk Louisiana
HAHA!!!! Yea, she isn't too much to look at right now. She will be when I'm done with her though! I'll be rebuilding the engine when I get back from the sand. I'd rather have a greatrunning truck than a nice looking truck at this point. She'll get the facelift she deserves eventually. I won't catch as much flack from the guys if she's running at least 
Nothing but a little bit of TLC needed. Yours isn't ugly, she's just a diamond in the rough for now.
Nothing but a little bit of TLC needed. Yours isn't ugly, she's just a diamond in the rough for now.
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Is that a Corsair II or an F-8?
It has.... "STUFF" that I don't remember at the wing leading edge
Nah, it's gotta be a II.
They say there was a follow on to the Corsair that had afterburner, but the F-18 couldn't keep up with an ordinary one without tapping into AB
The only thing that shot down the Corsair program was its SINGLE ENGINE. It was thought that the 18 was better because the second engine might keep it in flight in an emergency.
I doubt an F18 could carry as much if the program was continued.
Corsairs had pure outright *****
*I wonder to this day what a Corsair II with a GE 110 twin-spool AB engine could do...
But I bet the whole damn fuselage would have to be redesigned
HISTORY ABOUT THAT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_YA-7F
It has.... "STUFF" that I don't remember at the wing leading edge
Nah, it's gotta be a II.
They say there was a follow on to the Corsair that had afterburner, but the F-18 couldn't keep up with an ordinary one without tapping into AB
The only thing that shot down the Corsair program was its SINGLE ENGINE. It was thought that the 18 was better because the second engine might keep it in flight in an emergency.
I doubt an F18 could carry as much if the program was continued.
Corsairs had pure outright *****
*I wonder to this day what a Corsair II with a GE 110 twin-spool AB engine could do...
But I bet the whole damn fuselage would have to be redesigned
HISTORY ABOUT THAT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_YA-7F
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From: missouri
wolf ours were the corsair A7d, borrowed from the navy ha ha ha ha ..i don't know anything about those ya-7f.. a little after my time..
my time with the 388th and 23rd tfw went from the f100 super sabre and the f105 "thuds" that really gave the north a hard time..
.. to more of a ground support mission with the use of the corsair A7D "sluf" toward the end of the "war" .. now my old squadron has the a10 which I know very little about but everything I have heard is they are great little aircraft..
I have heard they will be replaced with something a little more modern and less pilot friendly.. these younger pilots need something with a computer controlling everything.. nothing but buttons, lcd screens and video game controllers in the cockpit ... sorry..I shouldn't say that!!! just a old man rambling I guess ha ha ha ha
my time with the 388th and 23rd tfw went from the f100 super sabre and the f105 "thuds" that really gave the north a hard time..
.. to more of a ground support mission with the use of the corsair A7D "sluf" toward the end of the "war" .. now my old squadron has the a10 which I know very little about but everything I have heard is they are great little aircraft.. I have heard they will be replaced with something a little more modern and less pilot friendly.. these younger pilots need something with a computer controlling everything.. nothing but buttons, lcd screens and video game controllers in the cockpit ... sorry..I shouldn't say that!!! just a old man rambling I guess ha ha ha ha
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Seems like I remember you from back when I was doing picture contests here, don't you have an old Courier with a motorsickle gas tank?
(the THING that wouldn't stop running...)
First I've heard about the A-10 going away, but I have heard some oddball stories about it.
The rounds from the electric cannon on them in particular were an engineering nightmare because they wanted to belt a specific series of round combinations to give it more 'punch', but the rounds all had to have matching charges to make them all hit the same spot.
Back in a sec, I remember where I heard that - it was a PM on a different site
Imagine being in the 'HOT SEAT' for that, sabotted rounds, heavy rounds, and everything in between.
And of course if the project failed...
* I discounted this when I read it some months ago. I figured the A35 was still somewhat fanciful
(the THING that wouldn't stop running...)
First I've heard about the A-10 going away, but I have heard some oddball stories about it.
The rounds from the electric cannon on them in particular were an engineering nightmare because they wanted to belt a specific series of round combinations to give it more 'punch', but the rounds all had to have matching charges to make them all hit the same spot.
Back in a sec, I remember where I heard that - it was a PM on a different site
Originally Posted by Confidential Source
one of the projects i had that i liked was bailing the a10 warthog out when they were going to scrap the platform. the a10 was a terrain following plane that use two big turbofan engines on the sides of the fuselage by the tail. the biggest part of it's armament was a ge rotating 30mm cannon. there was a problem where the pilot would press the firing key, the cannon would oscillate wildly, and the muzzle gas would get caught up in the air moving to the engines and snuff them out. the plane would be out of attitude from the oscillation and being a terrain following radar guided deal, the aircraft was always too low to accomplish an engine restart. the pilot, if he was lucky, would punch out and the plane would crash.
they gave the plane to us as a last ditch effort to keep it off the scrap pile. i designed a gun gas diverter that was adapted to the business end of the gattling gun. it tuned the barrel flex so that the cannon let a round fly when the barrels came through the zero point. vanes on the diverter shot the gun gas straight down under the nose to keep it from snuffing the turbines.
that was in the early 80s and i had to wait 10 years or so to see the warthog fly 100% successful sorties in the first gulf action.
i relate this to you sadly as the pentagon released the a10 from service about a month or so ago in exchange for the a35 which just recently performed its first carrier landing about a week ago. the a35 is the new joint defense darling. that's largely due to the incorporation of the newer technology incorporated into it.
after i solved the problems with the ge cannon i went on to work out the ammo load dilemma. since the a10's mission was to destroy tank convoys it used a high tech chain of assorted rounds designed to ***** armor plate, deposit white phosphorous in the pit to weaken the plating, and then to use various shaped projectiles to penetrate the armor. the last piercing round was a depleted uranium sledge hammer that knocked a hole big enough for the incendiary, fragmentary, and concussive rounds. the last round out of the barrel was a marker round which helped the pilot verify his strafing run.
making all the rounds' varying masses stay in line without the massive depleted uranium round losing velocity and making all the other rounds crash into it was a fun exercise with as much test firing as i could wrangle. ("X") built an underground test firing range for that. it had big steel blast doors at one end and all of the monitoring instrumentation was located outside the chamber in a control room.
they gave the plane to us as a last ditch effort to keep it off the scrap pile. i designed a gun gas diverter that was adapted to the business end of the gattling gun. it tuned the barrel flex so that the cannon let a round fly when the barrels came through the zero point. vanes on the diverter shot the gun gas straight down under the nose to keep it from snuffing the turbines.
that was in the early 80s and i had to wait 10 years or so to see the warthog fly 100% successful sorties in the first gulf action.
i relate this to you sadly as the pentagon released the a10 from service about a month or so ago in exchange for the a35 which just recently performed its first carrier landing about a week ago. the a35 is the new joint defense darling. that's largely due to the incorporation of the newer technology incorporated into it.
after i solved the problems with the ge cannon i went on to work out the ammo load dilemma. since the a10's mission was to destroy tank convoys it used a high tech chain of assorted rounds designed to ***** armor plate, deposit white phosphorous in the pit to weaken the plating, and then to use various shaped projectiles to penetrate the armor. the last piercing round was a depleted uranium sledge hammer that knocked a hole big enough for the incendiary, fragmentary, and concussive rounds. the last round out of the barrel was a marker round which helped the pilot verify his strafing run.
making all the rounds' varying masses stay in line without the massive depleted uranium round losing velocity and making all the other rounds crash into it was a fun exercise with as much test firing as i could wrangle. ("X") built an underground test firing range for that. it had big steel blast doors at one end and all of the monitoring instrumentation was located outside the chamber in a control room.
And of course if the project failed...
* I discounted this when I read it some months ago. I figured the A35 was still somewhat fanciful
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From: missouri
good article..... yea I do have a old courier that had a real rusted fuel tank so I put a old bsa fuel tank on the roll bar.. was great because it gravity feed, so i didn't have to mess with wore out electric fuel pumps cutting off anymore..
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From: Texas
As for the A-10, I really can't picture one of these new all in one F/A type go-fasts being able to replace the low and slow destruction for ground support that the A-10 provides.
I guess it will be replaced with drones. Not sure how I feel about drones on close in air support. Friendly fire and confusion is bad enough when there's a live pilot looking at everything in front of him. Add a computer screen, air conditioned office, and only 15 minutes until the guy's next coffee break because the drone can RTB by itself, and it doesn't give me that warm fuzzy feeling.
At least if the A-10 driver started shooting at the wrong side you could shoot back and get even. Now it's just some kids remote control toy with no personal attachment to the battle.
I guess it will be replaced with drones. Not sure how I feel about drones on close in air support. Friendly fire and confusion is bad enough when there's a live pilot looking at everything in front of him. Add a computer screen, air conditioned office, and only 15 minutes until the guy's next coffee break because the drone can RTB by itself, and it doesn't give me that warm fuzzy feeling.
At least if the A-10 driver started shooting at the wrong side you could shoot back and get even. Now it's just some kids remote control toy with no personal attachment to the battle.
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From: missouri
yea.. it kinnda scares me to have someone who just finished a game of "grand theft auto" or something like that.. then go control a drone raining down overwhelming fire power on a target yards away from our ground pounders..
