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Crop Duster Squadron. Take it to DC for a test run?
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Campfire Kahuna
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OV-10 was and is a better platform.
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OV-10 was and is a better platform.
Curious to why. I see a couple performance advantages, but it can't carry the munitions of the Air Tractor.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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No, the OV-10 didn't have the weapons load or the loiter time, and had almost zero electronics.
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I like it!!
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Sky Warden - that is kind of scary.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Curious I am. Had occasion to hang out with some Marine OV10 jockeys and admire their birds. Each was equipped with the following:
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Can’t see them being much use in a real war but they would be just the thing for curbing civil disobedience, how many have the FBI and IRS ordered?
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my older son, an engineer, usaf major, and senior-rated, special-operations pilot at hurlburt/duke, spent several months in waco flying and evaluating the air tractor. he concluded that the air tractor is an awful choice. so naturally it was chosen.
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No, the OV-10 didn't have the weapons load or the loiter time, and had almost zero electronics.
that would in truth be the air tractor, according to my son who flew it extensively over several months.
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VIDEO
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Like a P47 but with a better engine. As long as it is properly up armored.
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Rio Grande patrol plane! Tag the wetbacks with dayglow paintballs!
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Rio Grande patrol plane! Tag the wetbacks invaders with dayglow paintballs 50 Cal M2!
FTFY!
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Dan, with a weapons loadout like that, an OV-10 would have only enough fuel to patrol the base perimeter for maybe an hour. That might be fine for the Marines, but not as an air cover plane.
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The times are gone when all the needed sensors and computers were inside the pilot's helmet. That may or may not be progress, but it is reality.
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While it is buttugly, it has an 8 hour loiter time which seriously out performs the A-10's ninety minute loiter time. Plus it can operate from remote fields without a huge, highly technical maintenance crew.
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