Can the A-7's get some love!

[Redddevil911 0]

Four pages for the F-8, I like the F-8's as well but can we give it up the the little brother! Anyone?

[+Jimbib 746]

How's about this for some A-7 love?

 

http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=20616

[column5 63]

A-7 is getting super High-Def 1080p treatment from the Mirage Factory. The E is now 95% complete and I have started skinning the D.

[Viper6 3]

Hey, The A-7 to me is a great ac! I use her a lot of the time I wish there was a campaing featuring her! I do a lot of single strike missions with the 'Super' variant. I wish she could carry a little more weight. But I really enjoy putting her thru her paces!

[topcat II 6]

That is great News!!!

 

Thank You!!!

[+{FL}Hausser 0]

Hey, The A-7 to me is a great ac! I use her a lot of the time I wish there was a campaing featuring her! I do a lot of single strike missions with the 'Super' variant. I wish she could carry a little more weight. But I really enjoy putting her thru her paces!

 

The Operation Thunderhead 1986 Campaign I am doing for the Libya map has 4 flyable A-7E units!

[Piloto 3]

PoAF A-7P and TA-7P Corsairs

 

 

 

(This one is the "White Dove"....still in USN painting and markings overall)

 

 

How could i possibly miss this topic?!? I just luv the SLUFF!!!

Workhorse of the PoAF for almost 20yr....

 

SLUFF RULES!!!

[+Spectre_USA 7]

The SLUF was an excellent mud-moving mutha!

 

Too bad it was tainted by that dual USAF & USN deal.

[DWCAce 19]

Here's some love:

 

 

From the Air Victory Museum, Lumberton, NJ

[Rambler 1-1 9]

Didn't the A-7 actually have a better power:weight ratio than the F-8? I never understood why people called the A-7 ugly. I allways thought it was elegant in it's simplicity, and I liked the solid, clean lines. If I was gonna fly an attack airplane off a carrier, I think the A-7 would be one of my first choices.

[triplethr3at 0]

Didn't the A-7 actually have a better power:weight ratio than the F-8? I never understood why people called the A-7 ugly. I allways thought it was elegant in it's simplicity, and I liked the solid, clean lines. If I was gonna fly an attack airplane off a carrier, I think the A-7 would be one of my first choices.

 

 

I think all planes are georgeouse. no exeptions.....well maybe cesnas

[Rambler 1-1 9]

I think all planes are georgeouse. no exeptions.....well maybe cesnas

 

whoa-ho! I think we should start an "ugliet airplane" thread to prove that there are planes WAY uglier than cessnas.

[Sgt.KAR98 0]

I confess that I stopped playing with it for some time...

BTW,why there is the A-7?

The F-8 is poor for strike or ground attack missions?

[+Florian 394]

Falling in double (seat) love with the Corsair!

 

 

 

Greets

 

Florian

[+suhsjake 11]

A TA-7C I presume.

[+Florian 394]

A TA-7C I presume.

 

When finished, it should be an TA-7E.

[Guest Saganuay82]

I remember being in the 7th grade and being out in front of the school and a flight of 4 doing a break overhead. I thought that was a cool plane. They must have been USAF birds cause we don't have any. We had low level training airspace in nrothern New Brunswick at the time.

 

I also remember a Time Life book I think, it was a big picture book on the Vietnam war and they showed a A-7 and the pop up manouver to hit its target.

 

Stuff you remember from when you were a kid.

[+CrimsonRoamer 1]

If it looks like a brick, flies like a brick and is about to drop several tons of ordinance on you, it's probably a Corsair

[Syrinx 13]

Corsair's are a bit like my Dad, short and fat, not as fast as they'd like to be but totally dependable and capable of flattening most targets!...

[RunsWithScissors 0]

Anyone remember a twin-engine proposal for the A-7? I remember seeing an artist's rendition in Airman magazine (I think), in the 80s...can't seem to find anything via google...

[JediMaster 451]

A twin-engined A-7? I don't remember that, but I do remember the A-7F w/afterburner.

I can't imagine how a twinned A-7 would work. The rear fuselage would be a mess!

 

Oh, and Nicky, did your dad ever have the nickname SLUF?

[FastCargo 412]

Actually, I remember that picture!!!

 

Yep, just looked it up. In Janes All The World Aircraft, 78-79, page 449.

 

From the text:

 

VOUGHT V-529D

 

"Vought has proposed a twin-engined development of the A-7E to the US Navy. The single TF41 engine of the current A-7E would be replaced by two GE F404 turbojets, each producing approx 16000lb st. Structural changes to accommodate this new power plant would include an increase of (1 ft, 8 in) in fuselage length to provide static balance, a local fuselage width increase of (2 ft 5 in), and a new aft fuselage structure with bifurcated duct."

 

I'll see if I can scan in the picture later.

 

Also, found out about an alternative to this proposal...using a single F101 engine!!!!! That jet would have been HOT!

 

FastCargo

[+suhsjake 11]

SLUF would have become QLUF.

Edited October 3, 2007 by suhsjake

[Rambler 1-1 9]

A faster A-7 would just be a bomber F-8! actually, that's not bad. A bomber with a bite! MiGs beware!

[+76.IAP-Blackbird 3,557]

Fast Cargo! Pls scan this pic! pls! We need really a twinengine A-7! Love this series from thirdwire! Great sim..