Putnum

I’m a huge fan of Putnum’s “U.S. Military Aircraft Since 1909”. The 1989 edition seemed to be in print for only 15 minutes. I bought mine as soon as it came out and never saw another one.
Are they as rare as I think they are?

CAF Glider

Here in the U.S., the CAF was restoring a WACO…perhaps to fly.
Anyone have an update on the project?

JDK,
Take a look at the front end of an early Cessna Citation business jet and see the family resemblance. My guess is there is commonality there. Nobody in my view would design from scratch, the pilots sitting so far apart on a trainer. The A-37 even has a spoiler around the nose to break the the aerodynamic lift of the broad snout.
Mark

Sorry Mark,
None of my various (5 or 6) Cessna histories mention the T-37 as a starting off point for the Citation…or Cessna Fanjet 500 as it was originally named.
The Citation was designed in the late 60s, more than a dozen years after the T-37.

I think the width of the T-37 cockpit can be explained by the engine mounting structure a few feet back…and perhaps concern about the width of the ejection seats. The T-37 is wide, but for years pilots who were too tall got dropped from fight training when it was discovered that fully suited up with helmets, the canopy wouldn’t close over their heads. A 6’5″ acquaintance in Officer Training School was pulled out of class one day, driven across town to Randolph AFB, and suited up. The canopy closed …just barely. The problem occurred because some people have longer torsos than others.

The spoilers you mention were added to the design after initial testing to impove (fix) spinning characteristics.

Around 1957-ish, Cessna did plan and build a mock up of a four seat business jet version in the T-37. Rather like a M-S Paris jet.
It also tried to interest the USAF in it. Photos can be seen in the A-37/T-37 in Action, published by Squadron.

BASSETS DUDE!!!!!

My well fed, spoiled, usually sleeping, couch loving, basset hound.
Bassets have a certain tranquility about them.
Really mellow…they naturally have the attitude we all should strive for. 🙂

Taken a couple of weeks ago, but is it ‘Historic’?
Mark

You bet! 🙂 The Lake Buccaneer…or LA-4….dates back to the 50’s as the Colonial Skimmer…a great plane and still in production.

AIRTRUCK…YUCK!!!

At the risk of offending all of our friends in the Southern Hemisphere…aka JDK
A finalist on any ugly airplane list has got to be the Transavia PL-12 Airtruck.

for those of you who don’t know what that is, remember the plane in “Mad Mad, Byond the Thunderdome”?

PS. The P-51D ugly? …don’t hate it because it survived in greater numbers than other types. 🙂 We need to be thankful any WWII types survived…lets pause for a moment to remember the great types scrapped to extinction by thoughless bureaucrats…Stirling, etc.

Eglin has sent some AC out…

Six F-15Cs from tyhe 33 FW are waiting out the storm at Dyess AFB, Texas. The Dyess PA office says another 4 went onto Nellis for some work with the F-22 program.