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Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:06 pm
So then what is it!?!? I’ve been waiting patiently for like 2 months! What does the Jug look like!??!?!
Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:18 pm
Have picture just waiting for permission to post.
Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:24 pm
WOW, I just had a look at the link with the A-20 pics...they've opened her up alot more than I did @ LSFM. I cant wait to see her all fixed up!
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Elroy13 on Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:19 am, edited 1 time in total.
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:17 pm
Isn't that the Bearcat that had the orange reserve band on it?
Lynn
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:19 pm
Lynn Allen wrote:Isn't that the Bearcat that had the orange reserve band on it?
Lynn
No, that's one of the Friedkin* ones.
*Another current member of the 'multiple Bearcat owners club'
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:41 pm
Lynn Allen wrote:Isn't that the Bearcat that had the orange reserve band on it?
This one was built back up from an old wreck. Will be the first time it has flown in many years.
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/f8fregis ... 21614.html
Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:33 pm
Jack Cook wrote:By golly I never would have guessed that scheme

Yeah, when I saw the silver I thought VNAF. The Thai scheme was a surprise.
Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:01 pm
Yeah, when I saw the silver I thought VNAF. The Thai scheme was a surprise.
Actually that is the fun part when you own more than one example of a said type
Don't ever think it will be the case for me however

Well....unless they're in 1:72
Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:34 pm
That A-20 from what seems like a hundred years ago when Willy Farah owned it:
This was at the Holloman AFB open house about 1978.
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:08 am
Great pics!
So is the plan to put the A-20 back into full military configuration, complete with guns, turret, and bombay? That'd be awsome!
I never realized the aircraft was a J model..I assume she acquired a G nose during her postwar mods?
SN
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:12 am
The critical structural difference is the turreted versions had the fuselage widened in that area to take the turret ring, I understand, whereas the flexibly-mounted gun versions had a straight longeron lines in that area. I don't think the nose bulkheads changed at all.
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:17 am
I think you're right. Like the B-25J, I assumed the "bomber" and "gunship" noses could be swapped fairly easily. The pics seem to show the turret ring still in place..should make intalling the turret much easier.
SN
Thu Mar 26, 2009 4:58 am
The preference for an RAAF example would be the Douglas Boston, with the two flexibly-mounted guns. I think they're going with the turret because they have to, not because that's what they want.
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:06 am
Interesting..I didn't realize the RAAF didn't operate late-model (turreted) Bostons.
SN
Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:31 am
Howdy All
The RAAF did operate a number of A-20G's aswell, but not for long !
A Japanese attack wiped several out
Lighting
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