Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

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• Mar 24, 2024

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• Mar 24, 2024

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• Mar 24, 2024

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GTX said:

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A prototype ?

 

• Mar 24, 2024

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Escuadrilla Azul said:

A prototype ?

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Northrop XA-9, ran against the Fairchild A-10. As Paul Harvey would say, now you know the rest of the story.

 

• Mar 24, 2024

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This is not the Northrop submission, but a nose modification of an A-10, my guess is to mitigate gun fumes going into the engines, an early issue.

 

• Mar 24, 2024

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And you are so right. Second look I see.

 

• Mar 24, 2024

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I think it might be a cover to increase range when they're doing long range flights, when no combat is anticipated
Covering that big blunt cannon muzzle with something somewhat streamlined would have to help drag wise.

 

• Mar 25, 2024

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Capt. Vick said:

This is not the Northrop submission, but a nose modification of an A-10, my guess is to mitigate gun fumes going into the engines, an early issue.

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Indeed - see here for story:

Early On, The A-10 Warthog's Legendary Gun Was Both a Blessing and a Curse

The Air Force had to make sure the massive cannon wouldn't blind the pilot, knock out the engines, and shake the plane apart.

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• Mar 25, 2024

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That being said, the first thing I saw was the nose and didn't seem to look back...


Da web....

 

• Mar 25, 2024

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A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft lands on the A29 autobahn during NATO exercise "Highway 84," Ahlhorn, West Germany, 25 March 1984.

 

• Mar 26, 2024

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• Mar 26, 2024

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Bullpups on a P-3, maybe?

 

• Mar 26, 2024

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Yep

 

• Mar 26, 2024

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Good shots!

 

• Mar 26, 2024

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I recall the day they phased out the KC-97, when I was at Tinker AFB. They found a bad corrosion problem on one airframe where the MLG attached to the wings. They inspected the others and found they all had it. That was that; the directive came out to fly them all to the boneyard. One advantage the KC-97 had over the KC-135A was that the reversible props enabled them to handle icy runways better.

One AF Reserve unit located on Tinker had been equipped with KC-97. They transitioned to F-105D (!!!)

I saw an early test film of an A-10 firing its gun. At that time the gun muzzle was almost recessed into the nose. The excess gun gases came out and ignited right in front of the nose, producing about a 6 ft diameter fireball that did not enhance accuracy. So the added a suppressant to the gunpowder to stop that. The next thing was that the A-10 SPO people came to talk to the A-7D people about how they handled the corrosion from the M-61. The A-7D had no corrosion problem from teh gun but the suppressant they added to the A-10 powder was corroding the hell out of the airframe. Next change was the gun stuck a lot further out of the nose, which I assume was an alternative to the suppressant.

 

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• Mar 27, 2024

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F4U-4 Corsair fighters of U.S. Marine Corps attack squadron VMA-332 Polka-dots aboard the escort carrier USS Point Cruz (CVE-119) on 27 July 1953 during a deployment to Korea

Source warship wednesday – laststandonzombieisland

 

• Mar 27, 2024

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Technically it was an aircraft developed in the cold war...

 

• Mar 27, 2024

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One for the eagle eyed experts:

 

• Mar 27, 2024

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Link doesn't work, or else you will need better eyes than Mine!