Holy cow! it can't be!

[Silverbolt]

it seems robert gates was here these days and signed or will sing a treaty with Brazil.

and my feeling is that the Super Hornet will have as its firs south america operator Brazil!

i feel that a historical momment will just happen in front of my eyes! i can't belive, i hope it concretizes till the end of this administration with a signed and aproved treaty!

 

[Jimbib]

This Pony gets around, good pic of it here...

 

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20879&p=209751

[+DWCAce]

it seems robert gates was here these days and signed or will sing a treaty with Brazil.

 

Hope he has a good back-up band! j/k

 

Good news though!

[rotarycrazy]

Thats great news, but i was hopping to see a rafale in FAB colors

 

love the super tucano I had the chance to see one up close when we got them

 

 

[infernus]

Yay for Prop planes! is this less underpowered than the Boeing OV-10?

[+JediMaster]

I guess that depends on how much crap they pack into it...

[+column5]

Its wonderful how history repeats itself over and over in military aviation...

 

Vietnam...immediate need for the Skyraider

Cold War...immediate need for the A-10

Today...immediate need for the Tucano

 

No matter how much technology advances there is always the need for simple, reliable, relatively inexpensive aircraft.

[rotarycrazy]

Its wonderful how history repeats itself over and over in military aviation...

 

Vietnam...immediate need for the Skyraider

Cold War...immediate need for the A-10

Today...immediate need for the Tucano

 

No matter how much technology advances there is always the need for simple, reliable, relatively inexpensive aircraft.

 

Today more than ever

[Slartibartfast]

K.I.S.S.

 

Sometimes keeping it simple helps...

 

As for the Tucano it's a good airframe in use by quite a few militaries in one form or another and it's a pretty good COIN airplane... But for me it would need to have a big radial engine 8 hours loiter time inbuilt 20mm guns and carry plenty of ordinance oh they already did that it's called a Skyraider... oh well nothing like history to prove you wrong is there...

[+DWCAce]

Hmm, never really thought about it, but I'm assuming that a fair amount of the A-1's where scrapped...

[+76.IAP-Blackbird]

A Turboprop driven Skyrider would be nice, with new avionics, a second seat in tandem and a similar airframe like the old one

[shotdown]

A Turboprop driven Skyrider would be nice, with new avionics, a second seat in tandem and a similar airframe like the old one

 

Could the turboprop take as much damage as the original radial piston engine and keep running?. If it can't then you should add a lot of armor.

[+column5]

A Turboprop driven Skyrider would be nice

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2D_Skyshark

[+76.IAP-Blackbird]

Ok, that`s ugly .. lets make a modern version and all is ok ;)

[+Gocad]

Wouldn't a modern version of the Skyraider look a lot like this?

 

The A-10 is actually (regarding the airframe itself) pretty low-tech....in a positive way.

Edited May 5, 2010 by Gocad

[rotarycrazy]

take an a-1 an stick a c-130 engine in the front and your good to go

[+Gocad]

I also wonder if a turboprop engine would also offer the same amount of protection as the radial engine did....somehow I doubt it.

[rotarycrazy]

you can add armor, the turboprop will offer more power and a better range, and it would weight less too, about 700lbs less