Intersting comparo: OV-10 Bronco vs F35

[flipper35]

My flight instructor told me that the Skymaster was not eligible for multi-engine training certification because the engines were both on the centerline negating the need to apply rudder when one engine "fails". Not sure if that is tru, but it makes sense for training scenarios.

[john70t]

In a contested space...on a combined battlefield..couldn't protected exhaust/ground flying/radar absorbing paint/countermeasures give a few crucial minutes?
Paint the thing jet*******black if we must.

The fast and deadly German fighters had a hard time shooting down the Po-2 night witches even when they were discovered.

[flipper35]

The F-117 was originally painted in pastels to make them harder to spot at night. The Air Force said paint them black.

[Jrboulder]

Originally Posted by flipper35

My flight instructor told me that the Skymaster was not eligible for multi-engine training certification because the engines were both on the centerline negating the need to apply rudder when one engine "fails". Not sure if that is tru, but it makes sense for training scenarios.

You'd get a multi-engine rating but it would have a "centerline thrust only" restriction.

Skymaster pilots have their own bag of tricks, like figuring out which engine has crapped out. You don't want to join the not-so-exclusive club of shutting down the working engine.

[kach22i]

I've posted a few images in the Random Transportation thread of some interesting aircraft.

My favorites are the twin boom pushers because I believe accidents on the ground with rotating propellers especially during night operations are more of a hazard than ejection or bail out issues.

This pusher below is too cool, not a true twin boom though.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/68609594295825967/


The observably of a pusher is right up there with jets, plus the radar in the nose or bundle of armaments point on every time up front is hard to beat.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Jrboulder

You'd get a multi-engine rating but it would have a "centerline thrust only" restriction.

Skymaster pilots have their own bag of tricks, like figuring out which engine has crapped out. You don't want to join the not-so-exclusive club of shutting down the working engine.

That may be what he said, that was a lot of years ago.

That would be my luck. An engine would fail and I would pull the mixture and everything would get all quiet. At least I could think without all that racket of how to best arrive at the scene of the accident.