Monday, January 30, 2012

Can you identify this light, single engine USAF aircraft?

This aircraft flew over the house today while I was transplanting my corn seedlings to the garden.



I live right next to a airport so single engines are always whizzing by and I hardly notice.



However, this one did not land and it passed by with a nice loud sound...and with some zip. I suspect it was just sightseeing over the lake. That happens a lot.



Unusual design. The fuselage ended and two struts continued to the stabilizers. It was grey. It sported the star on the starboard wing and "USAF" on the port.



http://new.photos.yahoo.com/silver_smyth...



(Sorry about the drawing. I am no artist.)

Can you identify this light, single engine USAF aircraft?
What you drew is definitely a push me/pull you. O2. I was intimately acquainted with one long enough to get shot down. That probably has something to do with not liking to fly unless I'm the pilot.
Reply:Probably an OV-10 which is a spotter plane, the Air Force may call it something different but the Marine Corps calls them OV-10
Reply:The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is a turboprop-driven light attack and cargo aircraft, and it looks like your drawing. Here's a top view - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rockw...



It has twin propellers though, your's doesn't...
Reply:Sounds like a Cessna 337, an inline twin engine that pulls from the front and pushes from the back. Big cabin with twin booms going to the tail. I do not know the air force calls it. Look for a movie, BAT 19 or BAT something. Aircraft was used as an observation craft with crew of one or two.
Reply:Cessna o-2B super skymaster, a Vietnam aircraft





go to yahoo image type in single engine Vietnam 1st row last one



the drawing looks something I saw on the history or military channel

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