Isn't that interesting! It would be a great idea for the poorest of third
world countries, but in general that area is getting full. There's the
Embraer Super Tocano, which the US picked for purely political reasons, and
the Beech AT6, a clearly superior aircraft. In the pipeline is the (insert
name here, Cessna, Textron, whatever) Scorpion jet, to be built by Cessna
for both trainer and close air support tasks. It's a joint venture parts bin
pfoject between Cessna and "Airland Corp." that when googled is a truck
line. All berry berry hush hush. Beech has a few contracts lined up but not
yet finalized with foreign governments. It's a great aircraft, like all else
in the beech lineup it is truly a flying tank. Not so sure about the Super
Tocano or the Scorpion. Where's there's unrest, there's money.
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From: ChrisB
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:11 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Airport Christmas Tree
But what is not cool is that it is probably intended for the Repressive
Regime market; generally speaking, cheap attack aircraft are for governments
which want firepower from the air but have limited funds.
Then of course there are governments with loads of money which can afford
our Tornados or Typhoons; they are perhaps even more repressive.
Chris
On 9 Dec 15, at 21:38, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And you start out with the most reliable turboprop engine on earth! It can
be a workhorse, if you find a plow that will fit the job. :-)
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 12/9/2015 3:24 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
Thanks, Ken. I just checked it out. Perhaps it is just the local
company
which does the test flights that worries about attention. I wasn't
close
enough to see the details of the hardware that appears to be mounted on
the
landing gear.
Yes, that had me puzzled too. The photos on the website didn't show
anything that looked like that on the landing gear.
What is cool about that whole concept, though, is that you take an
aircraft that is designed for extreme low-level, high-g flight ops,
with an excessive gross-weight limit, and you can just start throwing
armor and munitions all over it.
AG
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