Posted on 08/08/2015 6:58:04 AM PDT by rktman
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Back when America was great and GE was a great patriotic corporation. Very good retrofitting and improvisation on Puff.
Retrofitting these days is the Assad forces (Syria) rolling barrel bombs out of helicopters and planes
Talk about kickin ass with both feet!
Thanks for the link and your service.
GE is not the first thing you think of when it comes to manufacturing machine guns.....aka mini-guns
Look up the gunship version of the Chinook helicopter, the ACH-47 also known as “Guns a Go-Go”.
There’s some neat footage on youtube.
The ARA unit which supported us with Cobra gunships also had OH-6s with miniguns. At night they’d light up the Dong Nai river near our perimeter. Solid lines of red light.
YES LIVE FIRE when they made the movie.
I used to have a T-shirt with a pic of a mini-gun and the “GE We Bring Good Things To Life” script on it. It did get some attention.
Yeah, I’ve seen the Dillon Aero stuff. Nice. I think I got the T-shirt too.
It is the only 1/72 scale model airplane I built back in the day that was not from WWII.
Puff the magic dragon...
I remember being told they could spray a football field and at least one round would hit in every square foot.
The first transport aircraft converted to gunship configuration was a C-131. But the AC-47 was the first to see action.
Other systems included the AC-119, the AC-123, and the AC-130. The last is the best known and longest serving, with later variants still in use.
http://www.spectre-association.org/historySpectre.htm
Transports have the advantage in terms of range, loiter time, and load-lifting, but were less survivable in the 1960s. They were strongly opposed by the fighter community, despite the marked inferiority demonstrated by the smaller, faster aircraft in range, loiter time, warload, and accuracy.
The survivability differences were problematic at the time (over 50 years ago) and have since been proven negligible. Despite application of more complete methodologies, fighter community still rejects the findings.
There was an ARADMAC depot in Corpus Christi. They repaired the Huey choppers. They’d come in shot all to hell. The word was only one out of three was salvageable.
Its all good!!!
We used to call the sound “Dragon Farts”. And you are right, it was quite a spectacular show.
C-177 is just an upgraded R4D (Navy C-47).
Douglas Aircraft C-47 / R4D / C-117 Skytrain / Dakota / Gooney Bird
speaking of specters, are you guys still out there?
let me know ms. specter
Imagine having these planes as protection for the bombers in WW2 going over Germany and elsewhere.
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