Mon May 05, 2014 4:48 pm
Mon May 05, 2014 6:17 pm
Mon May 05, 2014 6:35 pm
tom d. friedman wrote:i'm not drunk or crazy,......... they both fly w/ about the same ordinance less the a-10's 30 mm cannon, & at near the same top speed. boy would that be a hoot!!
Mon May 05, 2014 6:51 pm
SpadGuy wrote:If someone could give me some pointers on how to post images, I will show you what I mean.
Tue May 06, 2014 9:24 pm
Snake45 wrote:SpadGuy wrote:OK, sorry, I do have that book, in fact two copies of it, go figure! Not a great picture. But here is what I see. Looks like the right seat is empty, but cannot be certain. I agree it looks like 35 as the first two digits of the serial. I would bet it is 135141. But it could be either marked with TS or TC. At that point in time, all NKP Skyraider squadrons were flying night, SAR and CAS missions, day and night. The night duty rotated between squadrons.
135141 is an awfully tempting conclusion, and I'm trying to see that last number as a 1 and having a real hard time of it.
I have several other pics of 141 and in all of them, it has the standard Collins 37R-2. This one has that oddball dual-band antenna that I've seen on a very few Es. Not that the antenna couldn't have been swapped out at some point, as we saw above, where the pic here has the dual-band but I have other pics of the same airplane with the Collins.
Wed May 07, 2014 5:23 am
Snake45 wrote:Snake45 wrote:[quote=
However....
In that pic, it's also got the tail beacon mounted on the pitot. The Mystery Skyraider in the Dorr book doesn't have that.![]()
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It's also got 36622 undersurfaces in that pic, not black.
Wed May 07, 2014 6:05 am
Wed May 07, 2014 8:06 am
Snake45 wrote:Yeah, 36622 is that very light off-white gray. It's the default underside color on SEA camo Skyraiders (and everything else), but I know that many had black undersides and some even had 36118 Gunship Gray unders.
Wed May 07, 2014 8:26 am
Wed May 07, 2014 11:35 am
Wed May 07, 2014 8:51 pm
Snake45 wrote:There's one tiny little unusual thing going on in this picture:
Thu May 08, 2014 11:12 am
Snake45 wrote:Yeah, 36622 is that very light off-white gray. It's the default underside color on SEA camo Skyraiders (and everything else), but I know that many had black undersides and some even had 36118 Gunship Gray unders.
Thu May 08, 2014 11:28 am
SpadGuy wrote:I love the picture led by A-1H 139738. I have many hours in this bird. And oh, by the way, it may be the only aircraft that was flown in both a Medal of Honor mission (Lt Col Bill Jones III on 1 Sep 1968) AND an Air Force Cross mission (Capt Ron Smith on 2 June 1972), in that order. It was about to be one of the survivors of USAF service when, on 28 September 1972, it became the last Skyraider to be lost in the Vietnam War.
Fri May 09, 2014 3:22 pm
Snake45 wrote:Speaking of light-colored cowling panels, here's a real interesting one. Not just front and rear in light, but the whole thing. and the cowl ring appears to be in overall 1/36473 or 36373, while the center panel and flaps seem to be in USN Gull Gray/White (36440).
Fri May 09, 2014 4:42 pm