Skyraider Delayed

Even though I no longer do much flying I have been looking forward to Miltech's Release. However the "late Summer" release has come and gone and it has yet to be sent to Beta Testing. No mention of a release date this time though. Pics look great but ya' can't fly a pic.

Having Beta tested for a long time, the delay is likely a good thing as they developers are probably tackling obvious issues and not dumping the model in Alpha stage for the Beta Testers to pull their hair out over. Maybe we'll see it before year's end. Am also looking forward to the B-25. Still hope an A-26 will see the light of day in the not too distant future as well.

I confess to not knowing much at all.about the Skyraider. Never saw one in person. When I was at Patuxent River, there were a couple T-28s that flew quite often. Now I know that the Trojans were trainers used at Pensacola and other USN training bases. I wondered if USN noob pilots went from flying the Trojans to Skyraiderrs? NC

At Can Tho AB South Vietnam we had six A1-E's that were beasts. I sat along the revetments early in the morning and watched them taxi by. . . .the ground moved, lol. T-28 pilots mostly graduated to Jet aircraft while the A1 was a taildragger and took special training to master.

falcon409 said:

T-28 pilots mostly graduated to Jet aircraft while the A1 was a taildragger and took special training to master.

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Would they have kept some SNJ's on hand for the taildragger component of training?

I've been following progress on the developer discord eagerly and they are not too far off the Beta. Hopefully they dont mind me sharing some of the pictures from there.

Augh, that drop tank is still WAY undersized.

Guy that checked me out as a 747-200 Captain was a "Spad" driver in Nam. Really tall slim gent, then he went to the A4. Can't imagine how they folded him into the A4 cockpit. Sometimes called the single engine B-17. There is a good example at Williams Arizona.

Sometimes called the single engine B-17.

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The B-17 was sometimes called the "four-engined medium" because of its small payload for a heavy, so I guess the two planes kind of met in the middle!

August

Miltech dev blog went up today with more A-1 news.

Oh man, AD-4W and a Swedish target tug? Sweet!

It appears that the Skyraider is on taps to be released any day now. Really looking forward to it.

fliger747 said:

Guy that checked me out as a 747-200 Captain was a "Spad" driver in Nam. Really tall slim gent, then he went to the A4. Can't imagine how they folded him into the A4 cockpit. Sometimes called the single engine B-17. There is a good example at Williams Arizona.

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Ha, reminds me of my flight instructor, who flew F-104s. The stories he had to tell, and the no nonsense approach he had! I learned a lot from him.
Our Tom Stovall here and I met in Ohskosh 2016 and saw a lot of Skyraiders on the ground and flying, to me this aircraft is a legend!

Cheers,
Mark

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K5083 said:

The B-17 was sometimes called the "four-engined medium" because of its small payload for a heavy, so I guess the two planes kind of met in the middle!

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in 1939 Boeing and the Army Air Corp traded bombs and Avgas for gunners, guns, and .50cal ammunition... and then decided they didn't need fighter escorts. In fact - they worried that long range fighters flying near the bomber formations would both impede the gunners' ability to track and concentrate fire on enemy fighters and that the friendlies' external fuel tanks would pose an undue hazard to the bomber formations. They even went so far as to restrict the fighter developers from adding external fuel carrying capabilities in those early years just prior to the War. The Army Air Corp leadership at that time weren't called the 'Bomber Mafia' for nothing. The P-47 and Republic / Seversky were sacrificed and the Jug defamed to save face after the first three months of the 'Daylight Bombing Campaign culminating when the Bloody Hundredth was decimated. The historical record still to this day claims the P-47 hadn't the range to serve as a long range fighter escort...despite being built specifically for that task and having the ability to carry external fuel shortly after Jan 1942. It could carry more fuel AND ammunition than the P51 and fly higher and faster. But the history books will tell you that the Mustang, once fitted with the Merlin engine, saved the day and that 'we just didn't have a fighter plane before it with the range required to provide top cover'
We did. It was called Thunderbolt.

I don't dislike the Mustang, just the persistent Superhero narrative surrounding it.

Well, it appears that "any day now" translates to "by the end of the month" now and it will initially be released through their website.

I've been haunting their Discord waiting for updates, it is what it is. It's been 4 years since this was first saw the light of day with Milviz, whats a few more days among friends??!