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To: sukhoi-30mki

All that is old is new again.

Douglas A-1 Skyraider

21 posted on 10/13/2011 4:05:07 AM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik ("The trouble with internet quotations is that you don't know if they are true"-Abraham Lincoln.)

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To: SnuffaBolshevik

All that is old is new again.

The Douglas did yoeman's work during VN. But it was a radial. And you had a whole lot less engine automation with it, than you do a turboprop that can sip the JP-4.

Reduced workload on the new ACs is a big plus, in my book.

/johnny

27 posted on 10/13/2011 3:43:02 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)

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