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[Colonel]

Slightly larger radial engines:



What wonderful, big pigs.

Designed by someone you might know of:  Ed Heinemann

[Slick Goodlin]

They also seem to fly okay with big chunks missing:
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[Colonel]

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.

[mmm...bacon]

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

[Colonel]

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.

[vanNostrum]

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

[Slick Goodlin]

[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?

[Four Bars]

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...