A-20 Havoc anyone?

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by flakbait:
Anyone want one? Maybe yank that A-26 from the fick Always [nice plane!] and give it some guns. In short: we need a straffer. Not a B-26 trying to play Jabo; a dedicated straffing aircraft.

Flakbait

Hmmm if we get the option of 4 20mm's in the nose over the 6 .50's I think you'd have an great attack plane  

The paint scheme would have to be Eastern front tho.

- Jig

[typhoonc]

Yes, the A-20 would be fun, but the A-26 was faster and bigger.  It used the twin wasps instead of the wright cyclones.  I think they used the A-26 as a night fighter until the P-61 replaced it.

[Hamish]

I found this searching the net:

"The A-20 Havoc, which was to become the A-26 and the B-26, was a high-wing, twin-engine, three-place medium bomber. It shared with the SBD a deserved reputation for getting its crews home, even when both crew and aircraft suffered crippling blows. In all, 7,097 Havocs were built."

from www.afa.org(2nd  link below)i got this:
 "The P-70 was a modified A-20 fitted with an airborne intercept radar and four 20-mm cannon in a belly package as an interim night fighter until the P-61 was available. The F-3A was the photoreconnaissance version."

try these links for info too:

• http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/history/mdc/graphics/hist133b.htm
• http://www.afa.org/magazine/gallery/a-20.html
• http://www.afa.org/magazine/gallery/a-26.html

Hamish!

[Jigster]

 

Originally posted by typhoonc:
Yes, the A-20 would be fun, but the A-26 was faster and bigger.  It used the twin wasps instead of the wright cyclones.  I think they used the A-26 as a night fighter until the P-61 replaced it.

The A-26 is not all that much bigger then the A-20. They both use Double Wasps (I hope anyway, other wise I'm seein things)

I love the A-26, I believe it was one of the best planes to come out of the war. But I'll gladly take the A-20's more compact frame and wings that give it forgiving handling if knife fighting  is required.

They both have awsome flaps that will make them do suprising things but the laminar flow wings of the Vader are best when kept fast.

I want both.  

On the eastern front, the Russians made use of the 4X 20mm nose pack for daylight sorties. I'm prolly wrong but I think it was the C version. Prolly a good tank killer with them less then a foot between each other  

- Jig