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Do you mean you cannot find the file on this website or that it is not as clear as you would like?Could I ask where you got your file on the Design Analysis of the Republic Seabee from a past post?
I think that if the OV-10 pilot really knew what he was doing he could have avoided the F-16. I assume he was doing CAS for the Coup. I see he had his gear down a couple of times and I wonder if he was trying to fly slower. An OV-10 was jumped by Migs over Laos and was able to escape.That Bronco pilot was ass-deep in alligators. I'm wondering why he didn't hug the deck until he could get to those hills.
Do you mean you cannot find the file on this website or that it is not as clear as you would like?
I do not have anything better or know where you can get it. That file I downloaded from the Av Week website back when I had access to
I think that if the OV-10 pilot really knew what he was doing he could have avoided the F-16. I assume he was doing CAS for the Coup. I see he had his gear down a couple of times and I wonder if he was trying to fly slower. An OV-10 was jumped by Migs over Laos and was able to escape.
When I lived in Alexandria VA there was a store, From Out of The Past not far away from my home that sold Library of Congress surplus. I bought some bound copies Aviation magazine so to get the Design Analyses of the P-51 and P-38, which I scanned, so I have higher res examples of those two. They also had a bound volume that had the Seabee article in it, but at $35 each it was a bit too pricey for me to buy more than a couple. I told a Seabee owner I met about it and I guess he bought it because it was no longer there the next time I went back. I was glad to be able to download even a lower resolution example.Yes, just looking for anything a little more clear.
Sounds like a great book store. Well, thanks for posting that--it's still a better copy than anything else I've seen. I've recently acquired a Seabee and so am in the data collection phase.When I lived in Alexandria VA there was a store, From Out of The Past not far away from my home that sold Library of Congress surplus. I bought some bound copies Aviation magazine so to get the Design Analyses of the P-51 and P-38, which I scanned, so I have higher res examples of those two. They also had a bound volume that had the Seabee article in it, but at $35 each it was a bit too pricey for me to buy more than a couple. I told a Seabee owner I met about it and I guess he bought it because it was no longer there the next time I went back. I was glad to be able to download even a lower resolution example.
I do not know why McGraw Hill does not reprint and publish all of the Design Analysis articles; I think such a book would be a hot seller.
That would be well beyond my capabilities. Although I had a friend who kept his Seabee at Deale and that's where I first was introduced to the Seabee about 30 years ago. But his plane is still flying and not victim of any accident, thankfully.In the Wash DC area we had Seabee parts sitting around. One day in the early 90's at Hyde Field a student pilot in a Cessna 152 went off the runway to the left, smashed through a parked dismantled Ercoupe and hit a Seabee fuselage. They later took the fuselage and threw it into the brush. The other parts were in a hangar. At an airport in Laurel, MD, there was the forward section of a Seabee fuselage abandoned. There should have been enough parts there to build one with a lot of work, but I do not know if anyone availed themselves of that opportunity. Good luck!
That would be well beyond my capabilities. Although I had a friend who kept his Seabee at Deale and that's where I first was introduced to the Seabee about 30 years ago. But his plane is still flying and not victim of any accident, thankfully.
That would be well beyond my capabilities
You certainly are an aviation aficionado! lol. That's the Electrol Hydraulic pump--I just had mine serviced by a Seabee community expert in South Carolina.
Thanks! I'll do that.If you go over to Archive.org you can do a search for Aviation magazine of May 1946 and find that whole issue with the Seabee article, but I do not think the quality is any better. You will also find other issues with possible related items such as this:
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Spot on! Way too close for a missile, and they make a noticeable flash and smoke trail. The Vulcan makes a barely visible puff of smoke which you can see just as the F16's nose tracks across the OV10's flight path. A brief, faint "brrt" can be heard in the audio. Bronco's goose was cooked. From his behavior, I don't think he thought the F16 would actually shoot. Remember this was domestic politics. In other times they were probably on the same team. I bet he thought the F16 was harassing to drive him off target, otherwise he'd be down in the weeds jinking like a broken field runner. Difficult target for a fast mover, though the F16 is more agile than most.I couldn't tell if the kill was attained with gunnery or missiles, but it looks like the Vulcan got him.
[...] otherwise he'd be down in the weeds jinking like a broken field runner. Difficult target for a fast mover, though the F16 is more agile than most.