Warbird Information Exchange

I am done with this subject and this site as well, another one who works on and restores warbirds is gone

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Matt Gunsch, A&P, IA, Warbird maint and restorations
Jack, You have Debauched my sloth !!!!!!
We tried voting with the Ballot box, When do we start voting from the Ammo box, and am I allowed only one vote ?
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OH FFS!

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

All that because people don't agree with your position on this?

YGBSM.

C'mon, dude...that's the way my 2-year-old handles disappointment and disagreement. That's not how adults do it.

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Ahahahaha, you've gotta be kidding me. You're leaving because some people disagreed with your opinion on the designation and name of an aircraft? Grow some thicker skin pal.

I don't like the name, but I'm staying.

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Would it help a little, if we agreed that we should honor people, and recognize the role of airplanes?

Saludos,


Tulio

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Why take the best part of life out of your life, when you can have life with the best part of your life in your life?

I am one of them 'futbol' people.

Will the previous owner has pics of this double cabin sample

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Sooooo, how am I going to know to press 1 or 2, if I do not speak English????

Just realized I made a typo when I typed OS2U. I meant O2U. I edited my post but it still shows OS2U in posts where mine is quoted. Sorry 'bout that.

[quote="famvburg"]"Mentor II" might be one thing, but "T-34" would be out of sequence. Not that something like that has stopped DoD before. Mentioning heritage names tho, & jumping both manufacturers & service branch, but Vought's Corsair lineage is not right. Technically, the Corsair should have been the Corsair II & the A-7 should have been the Corsair III since Vought's O2U was named Corsair originally. I guess they wanted everyone to forget that.

T-28 would be out of sequence, too, & there was a T-28E, as the YAT-28E.

I'm not all that familiar with Curtiss' bipes, but ISTR many of them, tho designated differently, were just variants of the same design(?). Also, wasn't the P-36 called a Mohawk? We all know the P-40 was the Warhawk, which at least makes them separate from just "Hawk". As for the P-60 & P-62, I don't think I ever saw names on them.

Geez, touchy aren't you?

It's a running joke on Curtiss' lack of imagination when naming aircraft. As far as the company was concerned, if it was a fighter, it was a Hawk, ground attack was a Shrike, observation was a Falcon. The USArmy didn't do 'official' names until WWII, using the manufacturers own name if it mattered. The British used names, and the US adopted some of them, which is why the North American 'Apache' ended up being the "Mustang" in all but the A-36 variant. The published factory name may have been why the Luftwaffe referred to them as 'Indianer'

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

Texan.......be it a new one or a old one........I'll go for a ride!!!

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Don't touch my junk!!

My friends chuck and John who owned C&J sales in Camarillo owned both(only 2) YAT 28 airframes.Know the plane well.ever seen one in person?seen em both .I only knew them as the YAT -28.oops,my mistake.been around a few T-28's.wrenched on more than one in Camarillo too.
Youre wrong Matt.wrench turners still are here.I like your posts,please dont leave

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Thank McNamara
F-110 "Spectre"
F-111 "Aardvark"
F-117 "Nighthawk'

Steve

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We tell folks that we have a 1942 AT-6D Texan. It's sort of a bastard, like most "T6"s. Many parts changed up over the years, some due to damage. Still has the gun cowls (and many patches), hope to put faux guns back in some day. Anyway, our plane is a TEXAN. It was made in TEXAS. It is named TEXAS TWISTER. The N number ends in TX.

Having said that, somehow along the line it got painted as an SNJ?!?!

And it has a HARVARD canopy?

So maybe our plane isn't a TEXAN any more?

We tell people it was a gunnery trainer (which in fact it was), so the designation is ATTACK TRAINER - 6D.

Anyway, it is a hoot to fly, whatever you call it.

What bugs me is doing a google search on T6 TEXAN and I get about 40 pages of Texan II stuff and have to sift through for the venerable radial trainer stuff.