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Identify this BEAST

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:43 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
IF you can... :p
It's real, it was produced in limited quantities for the USAF. It is currently the only one registered and flying in the world.
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It was configured to do duty as an air ambulance if need be.
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When my buddy that owns it, gets the rear mag straightened out, I'll get to fly it. :D

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:44 am
by :FI:Falcon
L-5 Stinson Sentinel?

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:48 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
:FI:Falcon wrote:L-5 Stinson Sentinel?
Close. BUT the L-5 Sentinel had a FLAT motor. :p

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 3:24 pm
by :FI:Falcon
Gak!

didn't notice the rotary ...

the Stinson L-1 Vigilant?

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:43 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
:FI:Falcon wrote:Gak!

didn't notice the rotary ...

the Stinson L-1 Vigilant?
Didn't notice that BIG HONKIN Continental RADIAL? :oops: No wonder you had to quit flying ............... :badgrin: ;)

You're getting colder with that guess. :p

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 2:45 am
by :FI:McBiggles
way more interested in the sedan to the left

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:24 am
by :FI:Falcon
well ... having run out of ideas and resorting to cruizin' on da Internets,

it's either the Thunderball Grease-Slapper or a modified L-5 ...

like the Clevenger?????

Re: Identify this BEAST

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 4:55 am
by :FI:WillieOFS
U-19B
One L-5E used as a glider tug at the United States Air Force Academy in 1962.
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Now Falkky, do you like drinking Baileh's out of a shoe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIInySnQ ... r_embedded