Scudrunners

Slightly larger radial engines:



What wonderful, big pigs.

Designed by someone you might know of:  Ed Heinemann

They also seem to fly okay with big chunks missing:
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Considered a shitty pilot assignment during the Vietnam war:

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I would have loved to have flown one.

Or it's spiritual descendant, the A-10.

I wonder if it was a shitty assignment because it was dangerous as hell compared to the F4 drivers?

Naw.  Back in the 60's, if you were a pilot, you
wanted to fly jets fast and high - that was the
future of aviation.

No one wanted to fly low and low in a prop aircraft -
that was the shittiest pilot assignment there was.
No future, certainly no promotion.  The fact that
CAS was desperately needed was irrelevant.

There are some interesting stories about the Skyrider told by Bill Bridgeman , Dougla's Skyrocket test pilot , in his biography
" Silent Sky''
Good read

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=4194.msg11218#msg11218 date=1473690350]
Naw.  Back in the 60's, if you were a pilot, you
wanted to fly jets fast and high - that was the
future of aviation.

No one wanted to fly low and low in a prop aircraft -
that was the shittiest pilot assignment there was.
No future, certainly no promotion.  The fact that
CAS was desperately needed was irrelevant.
[/quote]
Just back in the sixties?

What I found weird was the man-sized entry door near the tail on the port side. It must  be a long climb in the dark to get up to the front...