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I'm thinking Martin AM Mauler - it certainly seems to have the right credentials for hauling stuff & was renowned for doing so, although I'm not familiar with any proposed conversions though?
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Is it the Martin Mariner or the Mars? (Wild Guess) I know both were used after the war for firefighting and cargo.
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Not the skyraider, but on the right track, (when was the skyraider turned to firefighting?)
Not the mauler.
Mariner and mars are too big.
Both Borg and Sparrow have got the role right. But not the aircraft.
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If it helps its twin engine, and making it a civilian aircraft would make it very tail heavy.
PBY5?
Er, have a look at the original question sparrow, Single seat ground attack.
Brain Fart... It happens to me a lot lately..
Scorpiomikey Er, have a look at the original question sparrow, Single seat ground attack.
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I'm gonna guess the A-10 Warthog....it would be tail-heavy because civilian Warthogs would not have the Avenger 30mm cannon in the nose. There was a group called "Firehogs" I believe, that wanted to turn them into fire-bombers. they reasoned that the plane had a huge payload while being more maneuverable than any current fire bomber aircraft.
Perfect, Thanks F-8. The A-10 Firehog it is.
I stumbled over a few articles about it and was fascinated, but the ideas been scrapped now (as far as i know). All websites ive found for them have been shut down.
This all happened early 2000's.
Over to you.
A Firehog would be sooooooo cool. Maybe I can whiff one...
Several people have built models. This is the closes i could find to the proposed paint scheme.
OK, this strange aircraft seems to have been a combination of fighter, heavy bomber, and torpedo plane all in one--though this is by the features of the design, and not by any planned uses for the plane. The plane could, on paper, carry more bombs than what was normally carried on a typical mission for a B-17. Had this plane gone into service, it would have shared a characteristic with the A3D Skywarrior. Though it was faster and far better armed than any of its contemporaries, it was cancelled and the prototypes were cut up for scrap. Name the plane and the main reason for it's demise.
I think you are looking for an F-8. The Boeing XF8B, one of those great also-ran aircraft.
A good guess, but not the ticket. The Boeing plane was designed at the outset to perform all those duties, while the plane I am looking for was designed to specifically take the place of one aircraft. The plane I am talking about seemed to be a mixture of all those different tasks, but not because it was designed to do them; rather, it was that it carried some of the features of each type of plane all rolled into one airframe.
Avro Arrow?
Martin P6M SeaMaster????
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I'm thinking (but doubting) the Douglas Skypirate?
Like the Skywarrior it would at the time have been the heaviest carrierborne aircraft of it's time, but became redundant after the end of WW2.
The Skypirate it is!
This was one serious plane....single engine, crew of three, and could carry as much ordnance as two B-17s would normally carry--over 8,000 pounds. Or, four torpedoes on hardpoints......
Two 20mm cannon in the wings, a dorsal turret with quad .50s, and a single ventral .50 like the Avenger. it was designed to replace the Devastator but it would have completely outclassed the Avenger as well. Top speed of 340 mph made it faster than any other comparable carrier based bomber/torpedo aircraft.
Two things led to this one being cancelled--it was designed to fly off the new Midway class carriers, it was too big to fly off the earlier ships. And the Midway class was delayed in getting into service. Also, the Navy did not really get behind this one, and I have no idea why. Design was started in 1942, so the war was definitely not won at that point. The two prototypes were scrapped in 1948.
on to you, milair....
Yes, the Skypirate was certainly a tool!
This aircraft was the first from this company, it got of to a rocky start (It's launch was somewhat overshadowed by the launch of an aviation great from the same area) , but eventually led them to success which continues to this day. It was advanced for it's day, quite influential, used new manufacturing techniques, was featured on a postage stamp & still flies today.
With that discription is could be the Wright brothers flyer. Except the overshadowed part.
Scorpiomikey With that discription is could be the Wright brothers flyer. Except the overshadowed part.
Piper Cub????
Don't know about the "over shadowed" part....
Winetanker Piper Cub????
No, this aircraft is considerably bigger.
The aviation great from the same area was a pioneer with no peers, it sadly no longer flies. the aircraft in question is connected to this "aviation great", but not by lineage.
Spruce Goose????
Winetanker Spruce Goose????
Sounds like a Tupelov to me.
Scorpiomikey Sounds like a Tupelov to me.
The aircraft you are looking for is the Airbus A300. The A300-600ST Beluga has a main deck volume greater than the C-5 and the aircraft overshadowing the A300 was Concorde
PhilB The aircraft you are looking for is the Airbus A300.
The aircraft you are looking for is the Airbus A300.
Correct, the A300.
Made in Europe in a similar fashion to the aviation icon Concorde, whose launch overshadowed that of the more mundane A-300. After some initial orders to national carriers who were obliged to purchase the A300, Airbus had a small & growing collection of unsold aircraft looking for customers......
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