A-4 / A-7 Question

In article , Daryl Hunt says...


"Replacement_Tommel"
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IIRC when WWII was over the USAF had a choice between scrapping the P-51
or
scrapping the P-47, since the P-51 was a "sexier" plane, they chose the
P-51
(desiginated F-51 later on). When Korea rolled around, the prop jobs were
assigned CAS duties. The Navy and the Marines were using air-cooled
Corsairs
(not the SLUF Daryl, the original one - the bent wing bird) and enjoyerd a
greater success with them than the USAF did.

Gee and to think you made the claim that they went out of service in 1949.

Apparently, the P-38 Lightning did.

Imagine that. They were used into the 1950s exactly as I stated.

I mentioned the P-51 (F-51), the P-47 and the the Corsair. The P-38 was gone by
then, Daryl.

The P-38 was as well as the P-51.


Daryl, by the Korean war they were gone.

Now, answer this one. Why was the Corsair such a sucky bird overall and why
did the Gyrenes drool when a P-38 past them in flight? Why were there so
many ground loops from the F-4U? Time for you to hit the google search
engine and the books once again. But make sure you stay inside. It's not
safe out in the real world.


Daryl, I don't have to hit Google for this because I'm a bit of a warbird buff.
The Corsair wasn't a sucky bird at all. It had some problems, yes - The long
nose was thought (by the Navy) to be problematic during landings, it had a habit
of throwing oil, but it was generally considered a good fighter and considered
by many to be the best one in the PTO.



Why?

Because an air-cooled engine is a lot more rugged when hit by groundfire
than a liquid-cooled engine is.

hate to bust your bubble but I entered the AF as a Recip Mechanic. It was
later on changed to Propulsion Technician. My uniforms weren't green. They
were black.

The P-38 was the first fighter to be able to disengage anytime it wished.
The others didn't have that option. As one Lighting pilot put it, "If I was
Jumped from above and didn't like the situation, I just disengaged". If the
38 lost an engine, they found the nearest cloud bank and hid out. Unless
you were in one of the pieces of crap that was sold to the British, that is.
Now, what was the main difference between the export 38s and the domestic?
Comon Hero, let's hear it.


They had crappier engines installed in them.

BTW what does that have to do with the statement "Because an air-cooled engine
is a lot more rugged when hit by groundfire than a liquid-cooled engine is."?

BTW are you claiming to have worked on P-38s now?

And I trust you know why the P-38s weren't considered a great fighter in ETO and
why most of them were shipped off to the PTO don't you?



BTW red, he'll just claim that the Air Force History Support Office is
full of it...

No, just you.


So you admit that they were right and that P-38s were withdrawn before the
Korean War then?

-Tom

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