We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:28:37 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:24:54 -0600
There's a parallel program putting Cobra engines and drive trains, rotor systems and tail booms on rebuilt Hueys and selling them as UH-1H(II)s -- Iraq has several already. We've already set up the bays and screens for the simulators when they finally decide to ship them from the cargo terminal at Baghdad.
]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75778 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75778 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:18:30 -0600 Now that it seems that we (The USA) are no longer running AH-1s or UH-1s, are your students going to get any of them?
I worked on a DOD contract back in the early '90s that essentually 're-manufactured' Cobras. When they came out of our shop, they were "new", though they may have been 20 years old. We even did a couple of 'P' models (hydraulic turret with 5.56mm mini-gun and 40mm 'chunker'). Most of them were 'E' or 'F' models. We'd finish them, test-fly them, put in a half-tank of fuel and a new battery, fly them to McChord AFB, pull the flippers off and bubble-wrap them, stash them in the pilot-seat, and winch the birds into a C-5. I think that 'most' went to Turkey and Greece. Some of the later 'F' models went to guard units that were still flying them while waiting for the AH-64.

I think it would be pretty cool if you got to 'school' your students on the Cobra. I still have a soft spot in my heart for the old bird. I'm pretty sure the IAF could learn to do CAS with them. They served us well for many years. They could serve Iraq for many more.
What do you know, that you can tell?
Thanks!

ChrisP]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75750 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75750 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:15:45 -0600

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It's got a ring to it.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75728 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/07/unless_youre_th.html#comment-75728 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:03:02 -0600
Externally, it looks like a plain vanilla 172.

You've gotta get up close and personal to see the differences.
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You can put a diesel engine in an airplane? 
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