Skyraider for Cavanaugh

51fixer · **Posted:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:32 am

Versatile wrote:

Jack Cook wrote:

That looks like Harry Doan's old AD-5

Is this the bird Harry got killed in?

No. I believe that was an AD-4, single seater.
Rich

FG1D Pilot · **Joined:** Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:42 am **Posts:** 450

Eric, It flew great. It reminded me a lot of the Corsair, in that the engine noise is less than most fighters. The flight was just to get it home so I didn't really get to wring it out. Hope to do that in the next few weeks. I do plan to add it to our training program in the near future.

EDowning · **Posted:** Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:52 am

Doug wrote:

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Eric, It flew great. It reminded me a lot of the Corsair, in that the engine noise is less than most fighters. The flight was just to get it home so I didn't really get to wring it out. Hope to do that in the next few weeks. I do plan to add it to our training program in the near future.

Maybe I can come down and get some dual. Seriously, I love flying that airplane. I think it flys more like a T-28 than anything else, but it's not tiny, like the T-28 and has the tailwheel on the right end.

muddyboots · **Posted:** Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:30 am

um...Why is there less engine noise? Farther away from the cockpit? More insulation?

FG1D Pilot · **Joined:** Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:42 am **Posts:** 450

Engine's farther away, you sit high, above the exhaust and engine noise.

Canso42 · **Posted:** Sat Nov 10, 2007 7:34 pm

Harry Doan was killed in ser. 126822, an AD-4N now owned and flown like a fighter by Rick Sharpe of Houston, a member of Lone Star Flight Museum.
Warbird Digest #13, March/April of this year did a feature on Rick and 126822. Air to air pix by Bill Crump.

I love the sound of a big Cyclone!

Canso42

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