guess this one and i mail you a cookie

[-towd_]

yep-er val wins please email me address and i will send cookie asap.

towd

[vonkjk]

I'd say the p39 or p40 ! LOL

Von

[Snowy]

lol I shudder to take a guesse at what plane that is.  

1st try    Beech model 35a Bonanza (trainer) Mexican Navy 1945  

2nd try   The Ryan?

3rd try   BlackBurn?

4th try   Brewster Buffalo?

i give  

[-towd_]

i dont know who made it but it was called a T6 t being for training.

 but is was a true fighter and could mount a light armement quite suited to intercept for airspace incursions if the incursion is by drunk lost 29 more intent on having a party any  mission

was kind of a trick question but they were quite common in ww2 at home.

anyone know if they were ever in combat at all?

[Downtown]

Didn't the T-6 become the A-8? that was used in Vietnam.  The prop drivin attack plane that had many many guns, carried bombs, and was devistatingly effective.

T-6 (Texan) (whoa, don't start that Alamo thing again) was developed by Hughes Aircraft. Though I believe Republic manufactured it.

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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG

[funked]

Yer thinkin' of the A-1 Skyraider.  Much much huger plane than a T-6!

The T-28 Trojan was also used in a similar role to the A-1.  Not as big as the A-1 but still it towers over a T-6.

[Pyro]

On a somewhat related note, I came across this interesting passage on the last P-51 use of the P-51 in a military operation.  It's from the May issue of Aeroplane, a British magazine.

"The last military operator of the Mustang was the Fuerza Aerea Dominicana, who proudly flew their aircraft until 1984.  In this view, Coronel Rafael Diaz El Diablo Rojo Bonilla pilots FAD 1912, with FAD 1916 flying wing.  The FAD Mustangs participated in the last P-51 military operation when, in 1983, they strafed a Cuban intelligence-gathering ship that refused to vacate Dominican waters.  Retribution was not long in coming, and a force of Cuban MiG-21s beat up the main Dominican P-51 base.  The Mustangs did not rise for a final glorious interception.  'We went inside and hid until they went away', recalled one FAD pilot."


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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations

[Toughgun]

   ALL I can say is...What agreat read this was all the way down to the winner...the Flames were unnesasary on both counts but still a good read..

Nice challenge there !

PS. were not the t6's really Canadian ??  

Guns out.

[-towd_]

well now i am really wonderin about um (t6s)im gonna post a question to that effect. see what the boys can dig up

i really enjoyed this you guys are incredible. i was shure i had u stumped couldent believe it when val got it.

 

[-blk--]

  Why would the T-6 be tough?  There are still T-6G's in service around the world (and they are the armed variants--if you can call those two things arms).

  What were you curious about regarding the T-6?  I may be able to answer the question...

blk

PS-does Ragtime read this at all?  Anyone know?  Or has he left flight sims altogether to fly the Harvard (another name for the T-6) more?

[-towd_]

well i wasent curious about anything in particular usualy one of you guys has a link to a websight that has lots o info on just about every plane you have ever dicussed i hav a new comp and have lost the bookmarks for these wonderful sights.

[-blk--]

  Don't ask why this is in two posts...


  Also check www.war-eagles-air-museum.com

  There's a bit of info and a few pictures there on their AT-6G (the type the Mexican AirForce most likely used here...).

  Will post others as I think of them...

blk
 

[This message has been edited by -blk-- (edited 09-16-1999).]

[-blk--]

  Start at www.courtesyaircraft.com

  I'll see what others I can dig up...

blk

PS-I've got tons of archived pics of them, but don't have a webpage...and the disk they're on isn't here at the moment

[-towd_]

you guys are great

[Downtown]

I would expect an aircraft used for training to be pretty rugged, no telling what kinda stress a student, or frightened instructor may put on a training aircraft.

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"I could feel the 20MM Cannon impacting behind me so I made myself small behind the pilot armor" Charlie Bond AVG