T-28 Packing Heat

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:55 pm

T-28C VT-5 NAS Pensacola 1958

K5DH · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:20 pm

These aren't "vintage" photos, but this is definitely a T-28 packin' heat. . .

(photo credit: myself!) :roll:

Cheers!

mustangdriver · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:24 pm

That is perhaps the coolest T-28 I have ever seen.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:55 pm

It needs to lose the spinner and get the cowl strakes.
The fellow who gave the the VT-5 photos was a gunnery instructor
and he said the a/c didn't fly right with armament without the strakes.

GIJOE290 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:14 am

Jack Cook wrote:

It needs to lose the spinner and get the cowl strakes.
The fellow who gave the the VT-5 photos was a gunnery instructor
and he said the a/c didn't fly right with armament without the strakes.

Cool photo's!

What are "strakes', please?

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:24 am

Look on the nose under the cowl flaps in the top photo. They add stability
when carrying the gun pods.

JDK · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:26 am

You can see the strakes' shadows on the side of the cowling in Jack's photo, about halfway up.

Them.

I'd have missed them if Jack had'nt mentioned them. Live & learn

GIJOE290 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:30 pm

Oh, Okay. Thanks.

Always learning here.

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