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Skyraider Delayed

falcon409

falcon409

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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.
 
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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.
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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.
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