Unofficial Aviation Buff Thread

AD1184

AD1184

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pigfarmer said:
Look at what's just sitting over at the local airport. Not like you see a C-47 every day and rarely like this. Cool.

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I remember going to an airshow at the Shuttleworth Collection here in England four years ago and they had seven C-47s/DC-3s, which had been assembled as part of an even larger fleet at Duxford the same weekend, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion. Five of which are pictured in this photograph:

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Some have American registrations, indicating that they crossed the pond for the event.
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
When we went to Udvar-Hazy there was an older guy selling books about the P-47. He was 18 years old and they handed him a P-47 to go shoot up trains and so forth with. I wouldn't give the keys to my truck to an 18 year old. But a 2000 horsepower monster like that ? Sounds like fun, which is pretty much how he put it.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
pigfarmer said:
When we went to Udvar-Hazy there was an older guy selling books about the P-47. He was 18 years old and they handed him a P-47 to go shoot up trains and so forth with. I wouldn't give the keys to my truck to an 18 year old. But a 2000 horsepower monster like that ? Sounds like fun, which is pretty much how he put it.
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Lucky guy.

All he had to do is to survive, otherwise best fun in the world.
 
Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
Nature of dogfight is changing BIG time.

Now, super-stealthy extended range aircraft are leading a teams of loyal-wingman drones that carry more sensors and missiles. Though its still strange that there is no second pilot, "wizzo", to manage all the workload of situation awareness and all these extra drones?


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Dejan Corovic

Dejan Corovic

As above, so bellow
pigfarmer said:
No air to ground capability yet. They'll still be flying A10s in 2123
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Yeah, I don't think A-10s are up for the ground support job in 2023. Maybe in 1990-99. But now its obsolete.

One can't just fly into the danger zone and not expect to be shot at with MANPADS. As we learned recently in other thread ;-) A-10s do have a large supply of flares etc, but one is risking both plane and the pilot each time.

F-16 is true ground support aeroplane for today's world. It can shoot stand off munitions from 40 km whole day long and never expose itself to any danger. And its one of the best dogfighters out there, so it can defend itself.

Its just aviation history repeating itself, once fighter aeroplane frame becomes obsolete, its converted into ground pounding hog, at least until it's last crew reaches retirement age ;-).
 
pigfarmer

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
True, a Skyraider wouldn't have fared well over Iraq or Afghanistan. I suspect the 6th Gen rollout and deployment will go abut the same as the others - the mission requirements will change and they'll wind up not building as many of these as they are saying now. In the meantime old hardware is getting a new lease on life, like F-15EX. MANPADS have been around a long time, the A10 will still be in use for a while yet.
 
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