The Skyraiders in Vietnam were life savers, and they enjoyed MANY nicknames, AD's, flying dump trucks, Spads, A1's and Sandies, and I'm sure I left out a few other names for it. They came in to help us a few times on my second tour flying up on the DMZ. They were extremely accurate for ANY fixed wing warbird, new or old.
Oh, it was far worse than that. It was so loud it made people violently sick. Like, some poor REMF was sweeping out a cargo plane on the ramp when they ran up the XF-84H, and he vomited, pissed himself, and fainted.
One advantage that the turboprop gives the USN is that it uses the same kerosene based fuel, which DLA now adds water-resistant and higher flash point chemicals. AVGAS was an explosive hazardous fuel that had to be stored in protected, air-tight tanks to prevent the creation of a fuel air bomb with your own carrier (see USS Lexington 1942, IJNS Taiho 1944). JP-4, JP-5 and JP-8 can be stored in side tanks as part of the torpedo protection system like heavy oil or diesel.
The one restored A2D sat on the ramp at Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls for many years, maybe a decade, before its restoration and move to a museum. It was great to see it finally fixed up.
In truth, it was the complex gearbox and props that caused most of the powerplant issues. Ed Heinemann described this development ordeal as being 'like a chronic tooth ache'. We'll never know why 'Woody' didn't use the de-coupling feature before his crash. Perhaps it didn't work properly when the props were air-loaded, or it was too complex to fully initiate in time. The British Gannet separated the engines and drive mechanisms from each other, only sharing a concentric centerline on the two props. Anyways, I've always thought the Skyshark was among the coolest looking planes ever built, but I also thought the Wyvern was a thing of beauty, too. Great video, as usual.
@@patrickradcliffe3837The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around 3,000-4,000 hp (2,200-3,000 kW). It was used mostly on the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft developed for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.
The Fairey Gannet showed how a dual-engined setup could be done. It wasn't a pretty aircraft, but could cruise with one of the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba engines and it's prop shut down. It made for a really useful submarine hunter with long lurk times on one engine.
Cdr. Wood was my father's Annapolis class mate ('40) and best man. My parents were married in January of 43, right after Hugh and my father completed flight training down in New Orleans. Of the four naval aviators who attended my parents' wedding (including my father), only dad made it to retirement. Hugh Wood, Ted Heckler and the other officer all died in the line of duty. Hugh crashed flying the Skyshark. Ted was shot down in the Pacific towards the end of the war (Mom said it was on the last day of the war, but I suspect that's more melodrama than actual fact...or perhaps not) and the other aviator crashed into a mountain in California while flying in a storm during a "training mission". If memory serves, Cdr. Wood was a two-time recipient of the Navy Cross, the second awarded for getting the first hit on the Yamato. Can't recall what the first one was for. Hugh and Dad, by all accounts, were quite close. They were even on the same cruiser together in Pearl Harbor before they headed back to the US for flight training in mid-42.
That is known as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing), It is a proven way to debug and add robustness, and results in a lighter product than simply using huge factors of safety everywhere. In the 1950s it was pretty hard on test pilots, though....
Basically the American version of the Fairey Gannet. The Brits understood that it was folly to expect a large turboprop plane to go toe to toe with the best fighters of the day, even in the late 40's.
I've actually seen the last remaining A2D down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon Ca, she's a HEFTY bird, id highly recommend you go see her if you're in the area
Ed Hineman was the designer and despite all the time and effort was wasted on an engine that was plagued with problems plus the gearing for the props failed constantly often with props flying off and landing in peoples back yards.. The ground crews hated the plane because the vibration and high pitched whine produced by the prope gave people headaches for miles around. There is one in San Diego at a small local air museum. The plane is a beast but like the F7U Cutlass it is just really cool to look at.
super interesting - I'd wondered why the Skyraider wasn't initially and/or converted to turbine power since it seemed like such a good candidate for it, turns out it was, incredibly unsuccessfully. Thanks for the vid sir.
One of the prototypes had an issue where the gearbox failed and took both propellers with it, landing with both jet engines still roaring away in the fuselage .
Some people have made unflattering comments about the narration. I do not agree with them. I neither find your voice difficult to listen to or understand. However, I am curious to know where you accent is derived? Brit RAF vet with a lovely American daughter in law. Oh and its a great aviation channel.
@Theover4000 a shame considering how neat it looks. I'm glad i researched it before deciding to buy it or not. For that price, i need something that is going to be an asset
@ funny story, about a week before it was announced for War Thunder I actually was in the midst of collecting documents and books for a suggestion. Still have ‘em, too!
It sat on the ramp at Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls for many years, maybe a decade, before its restoration and move to the museum. It was great to see it finally fixed up.
With Ed Heinemen's appreciation of simplicity and clarity of design, it is a testament to SOMEONE'S obstinance that this lardy bodge went beyond the proposal stage. A military industrial exercise in running down the possibilities, I suppose but in retrospect, a WOFTAM, I am sorry to say. When the turbine powerplants couldn't do it with a single, it was always going to be a contraption.
Nice work but it's a shame you did not mention the designer, Edward "Ed" Heinemann. One of the all time greats. His SBD, A-20, A-26, A- and my favorite, the A-4 Skyhawk that I worked on in the Navy. And he actually designed more than the aircraft I listed. Like the A-3 Skywarrior. His airframe he did for the XA-2D was excellent. It was the engine. Sems there was a report of the entire propellor assembly departing the aircraft ay mid flight. 😬 But if you're hung up on the "Sky" name prefix, from my experience, the Skyhawk was more often than not called the "Scooter."
Why Douglas? My best guess...Douglas had a solid record of creating 'carrier worthy' aircraft, so they could trusted to create something for the Navy's needs.
Only four years later in 1954 would turboprop development spawn one of the most legendary engines for the C-130. I wonder if the Allison T56 would have made either the Skyraider or Skyshark relevant until the A-10 came out? Even today Air Force planners are going in reverse looking for light CAS planes like the Tucano.
One of the weird problems of the XT40 was the suitcase sized black box that controlled the gearbox which contained several fragile vacuum tubes I read on one of the test flights that the propellers flew off and the plane landed using the small amount of residual thrust from the core engines I do agree had this worked it would have been a huge increase in terms of capability and it might have lasted longer than the skyraider I do think that a single large turboprop would have been better than the coupled turboprop especially in the time frame The fairey Gannett would use a couple turboprop in the form of the double Mamba but that plane came later than the sky shark
Given how you animate your slides, I was shocked to not see Germany actually sandwiched between two pieces of bread called "USSR and America & Britain".
Fascinating, Go Navy! Thanks for the aviation history, very interesting. BTW, the air to air combat wasn't to make it an attack plane but to make it more survivable in an air combat against a jet. Sky Raiders shot down a Mig in Vietnam and dive bombers shot down Zeros in WW2.
Ironic that the British developed an aircraft with very much the same engine set up... and they succeeded with the Fairey Gannet entering service with the Royal Navy on their flat-tops. It also could shut down one engine. It was, however a somewhat larger, 3-place beast intended for long anti sub patrols. There is actually a really decent 1/48 scale kit of the A2D! Now if a kit of an aircraft that never entered can be released, why isn't there a 1/48 scale Martin Mauler? It entered production and did serve (albeit in small numbers) in the U.S. Navy.
0:40 Germany was miles ahead of us English within a decade of the end of World War Two, we still lived on rations well into the mid fifties and then deGaulle ensured we were not accepted into the new found friendship of the Surrender French and the Huns and their Common Market, German economic miracle along with their wartime buddies of Japan won #ww2
Looks like a Gannet. I remember as a child being taken on the Ark Royal in Gibraltar, sitting in the back of a Gannet in the hanger deck while all the electronics burst into life. The only time I saw another one was driving past Deeside College in North Wales where it was a gate guardian. I believe it is in storage somewhere.
Me wishing I had video editing skills to convey my detailed knowledge and strong interest in nuclear weapons into a TH-cam channel like this one. And also didn't work 60 hours a week at my product development job.
Looks like the prop version of the F3d Skyknight And that taking on enemy fighters ? Was the tactic was to make them laugh themselves out of their cockpits?
The Navy should have stuck with it. The piston Skyraiders were the most effective close support plane of Vietnam war because they could loiter and so could have the Skyshark. Loitering keeps the bad guys heads down why the good guys maneuver. Jets of the day made a couple of passes and left to refuel.
The Navy couldn't get rid of its Skyraiders fast enough to make room for faster attack jets, so there was no reason they would want another slow prop plane just like it.
@@gort8203 The Skyraider remained in production until 1957 and was still in front-line service on US carriers into the 1960s, so there wasn't that much of a rush to replace them.
@ I wonder if our forces have the correct mix. Seems they only want fighters and ground support is secondary. The results is 100million or whatever F35 potentially shot down by an insurgent wielded AK47. Sensical?
@@CharlesStearman No, you're wrong. They were replacing them as fast they could with jets just as the Vietnam War was gathering steam. They got South Vietnam and USAF to take them. The Air Force ended up using them for CAS way more than the Navy did.
A radial piston engine can have entire cylinders shot off, and still get out of enemy territory..........turbo prop, not so much. The A2D does have a striking resemblance to the Fairey Gannet which had good loiter time and fuel efficiency for ASW work.
If I had infinite money, I'd hire an engineer to put an Allison T56* in a Skyraider, just to see what this concept done right would look/perform like. *best known from the Lockheed L-100/C-130 and L-188/P-3 and Grumman C-2/E-2. Did Boeing and McDonnell just skip turboprops entirely?
Great material! But the weird sing-song narrative delivery is SO distracting that I had to finally mute it. Please adopt a less up-and-down, hi-note-low-note pattern. Make it sound NORMAL! 🙄
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This plane does not "combine jets and propellers" to achieve the high speed potential of a jet engine. It will not "fly a good bit faster than a normal piston engine". A turboprop is not a jet engine and does not have more speed potential than a piston engine of equal power driving the same propeller. This is still a prop driven airplane that suffers the inherent speed limitations of propellers A jet propelled airplane has more speed potential because it eliminates these limitations, and a turbojet engine's power increases with speed while a propeller's decreases with speed, be it powered by pistons or a turbine. A turboprop engine is more powerful than a piston engine of the same weight, but this is offset by the greater quantity of fuel required to go the same distance. The main benefits a turboprop over a piston engine are greater reliability and less frequent maintenance coupled with the ability to burn less expensive fuel.
@@WALTERBROADDUS Man you are ignorant. It is a turbine engine, not a jet. Jet propulsion moves an aircraft by reaction to gases propelled out the exhaust.
@WALTERBROADDUS You are wrong, as usual. Jet propulsion is used by turbojets, rockets, water skis, and squids. The jet of gas or fluid out the back propels the object forward. Gas turbine engines like turboprops extract the power produced by combustion and transfer it via a shaft to a propeller, a rotor disk, or the screw of a ship. That is not a jet engine, that is a gas turbine engine. Read and learn a little before you opinionate.
The Skyraiders in Vietnam were life savers, and they enjoyed MANY nicknames, AD's, flying dump trucks, Spads, A1's and Sandies, and I'm sure I left out a few other names for it. They came in to help us a few times on my second tour flying up on the DMZ. They were extremely accurate for ANY fixed wing warbird, new or old.
Going real slow and having good ccip and ccrp will do that,
They are also just big fat steady lumps
The south Vietnamese called it 'crazy water Buffalo '.
The Skyraider! My all time favorite aircraft.
It just has a character that charms me.
6:24 The Thunderscreech was capable of causing deafness to people on the ground, an underestimated power for consumers in today's music scene
Oh, it was far worse than that. It was so loud it made people violently sick. Like, some poor REMF was sweeping out a cargo plane on the ramp when they ran up the XF-84H, and he vomited, pissed himself, and fainted.
Flybys vs "mostly peaceful" riots FTW.
...Now you are deaf...
Whhhhhoooooat?!!
SPEAK UP!
"You're not big enough and there ain't enough of you to get me back in that thing."
Meanwhile Westland Wyvern quietly sitting in the corner grinning and sharping claws😂
One advantage that the turboprop gives the USN is that it uses the same kerosene based fuel, which DLA now adds water-resistant and higher flash point chemicals. AVGAS was an explosive hazardous fuel that had to be stored in protected, air-tight tanks to prevent the creation of a fuel air bomb with your own carrier (see USS Lexington 1942, IJNS Taiho 1944). JP-4, JP-5 and JP-8 can be stored in side tanks as part of the torpedo protection system like heavy oil or diesel.
The one restored A2D sat on the ramp at Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls for many years, maybe a decade, before its restoration and move to a museum. It was great to see it finally fixed up.
In truth, it was the complex gearbox and props that caused most of the powerplant issues. Ed Heinemann described this development ordeal as being 'like a chronic tooth ache'. We'll never know why 'Woody' didn't use the de-coupling feature before his crash. Perhaps it didn't work properly when the props were air-loaded, or it was too complex to fully initiate in time. The British Gannet separated the engines and drive mechanisms from each other, only sharing a concentric centerline on the two props. Anyways, I've always thought the Skyshark was among the coolest looking planes ever built, but I also thought the Wyvern was a thing of beauty, too. Great video, as usual.
My eye starts twitching whenever I hear “Westinghouse.”
Real
Westinghouse on their way to make an overhyped hairdryer as their "next big jet engine"
so true i hear it and yell run away now and remember most of the jets with there engine didn't have ejection seats yet or where no where near safe yet
2:50 what an outstanding photograph. "Oh hey is this that new jet you were telling me about? Looks great. Crashing on the ground yea that's safe"
The Mamba turboprop would likely have brought the project to fruition. I wonder if it was ever considered.
I believe the Mamba was developed a few years after this.
@@patrickradcliffe3837The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around 3,000-4,000 hp (2,200-3,000 kW). It was used mostly on the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft developed for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.
@@patrickradcliffe3837 the prototype Gannet flew in 1949 .
It was cancelled due to retirement of the small carriers for which it was needed. No need to sort out the engine problems after that.
The Fairey Gannet showed how a dual-engined setup could be done. It wasn't a pretty aircraft, but could cruise with one of the Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba engines and it's prop shut down. It made for a really useful submarine hunter with long lurk times on one engine.
Also good in its AEW role.
Loiter not lurk.
Cdr. Wood was my father's Annapolis class mate ('40) and best man. My parents were married in January of 43, right after Hugh and my father completed flight training down in New Orleans. Of the four naval aviators who attended my parents' wedding (including my father), only dad made it to retirement. Hugh Wood, Ted Heckler and the other officer all died in the line of duty. Hugh crashed flying the Skyshark. Ted was shot down in the Pacific towards the end of the war (Mom said it was on the last day of the war, but I suspect that's more melodrama than actual fact...or perhaps not) and the other aviator crashed into a mountain in California while flying in a storm during a "training mission". If memory serves, Cdr. Wood was a two-time recipient of the Navy Cross, the second awarded for getting the first hit on the Yamato. Can't recall what the first one was for. Hugh and Dad, by all accounts, were quite close. They were even on the same cruiser together in Pearl Harbor before they headed back to the US for flight training in mid-42.
IIRC some pilots flying the Skyshark had problems with the stroboscopic effect of the contra-rotating props.
In some people it could cause an epileptic seizure
Overall, it sounds like the engine was designed by Lotus. 1. Run it til it breaks; 2. Strengthen the bit that broke; 3. Repeat stage 1.
That is every military weapon and racing machine ever built.
That is known as HALT (Highly Accelerated Life Testing), It is a proven way to debug and add robustness, and results in a lighter product than simply using huge factors of safety everywhere. In the 1950s it was pretty hard on test pilots, though....
Actually, a funky Fairey Gannet.
The giant exhaust ports on the A2D make it so much sillier than the Gannet.
As if the Gannet wasn’t funky enough already.
You mean a smooth Fairey Gannet !
There is definitely a resemblance.
The twin mamba was a reliable lump. The FAA used to operate the Gannet on one engine to extend the loiter times.
Basically the American version of the Fairey Gannet. The Brits understood that it was folly to expect a large turboprop plane to go toe to toe with the best fighters of the day, even in the late 40's.
I've actually seen the last remaining A2D down at Gillespie Field in El Cajon Ca, she's a HEFTY bird, id highly recommend you go see her if you're in the area
It sat on the ramp at Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls for many years, maybe a decade, before its restoration. It was great to see it finally fixed up.
@ she looks pretty good for just sitting around in the SoCal sun
An excellent presentation. Thank you!
Ed Hineman was the designer and despite all the time and effort was wasted on an engine that was plagued with problems plus the gearing for the props failed constantly often with props flying off and landing in peoples back yards.. The ground crews hated the plane because the vibration and high pitched whine produced by the prope gave people headaches for miles around. There is one in San Diego at a small local air museum. The plane is a beast but like the F7U Cutlass it is just really cool to look at.
When it comes to Aviation and Aircraft History, for me the trifecta is:
“IHYLS” (Yank)
“Ed Nash’s Military Matters” (Brit)
and
“Rex’s Hangar” (Aussie)
super interesting - I'd wondered why the Skyraider wasn't initially and/or converted to turbine power since it seemed like such a good candidate for it, turns out it was, incredibly unsuccessfully. Thanks for the vid sir.
It looks like the little brother of the Thunderscreech
Which was a very appropriately named aircraft!
Reminds me of a P 51 at Reno called Precious Metal.
One of the prototypes had an issue where the gearbox failed and took both propellers with it, landing with both jet engines still roaring away in the fuselage .
what a great call sign for LTCDR Hugh "Huge wood" Woods 💯
This plane was so similar to the Royal Navy's Fairey Gannet. One might think that one was derived from the other....
Some people have made unflattering comments about the narration. I do not agree with them. I neither find your voice difficult to listen to or understand. However, I am curious to know where you accent is derived? Brit RAF vet with a lovely American daughter in law. Oh and its a great aviation channel.
That airplane looks like a Beast. 👀!! Would love to see it in action.
The Skyraider was the A-10 of it's day. Massive ordnance load for it's size and long loiter time.
I love how chunky and stubby it is. But not enough for that BR...i'll content myself with great history videos. Thanks brother
When it first came out it was 7.0-ish and was absolutely broken. It’s just sad that it’s absolutely useless now.
@Theover4000 a shame considering how neat it looks. I'm glad i researched it before deciding to buy it or not. For that price, i need something that is going to be an asset
@ funny story, about a week before it was announced for War Thunder I actually was in the midst of collecting documents and books for a suggestion. Still have ‘em, too!
@Theover4000 that documentation is important work. Thanks
RIP Huge Wood
Well done sir. I used to see one sitting at Chino Ca. Then i herd it was restored and in a san Diego museam.
It sat on the ramp at Pacific Fighters in Idaho Falls for many years, maybe a decade, before its restoration and move to the museum. It was great to see it finally fixed up.
Lets show some love for the A4
You nailed the middle child thing.
Sharknado is actually pretty fun movie The soundtrack was okay they initial song the actual theme song for Sharknado is a lot of fun
With Ed Heinemen's appreciation of simplicity and clarity of design, it is a testament to SOMEONE'S obstinance that this lardy bodge went beyond the proposal stage. A military industrial exercise in running down the possibilities, I suppose but in retrospect, a WOFTAM, I am sorry to say. When the turbine powerplants couldn't do it with a single, it was always going to be a contraption.
Nice work but it's a shame you did not mention the designer, Edward "Ed" Heinemann. One of the all time greats. His SBD, A-20, A-26, A- and my favorite, the A-4 Skyhawk that I worked on in the Navy. And he actually designed more than the aircraft I listed. Like the A-3 Skywarrior. His airframe he did for the XA-2D was excellent. It was the engine. Sems there was a report of the entire propellor assembly departing the aircraft ay mid flight. 😬 But if you're hung up on the "Sky" name prefix, from my experience, the Skyhawk was more often than not called the "Scooter."
Why Douglas? My best guess...Douglas had a solid record of creating 'carrier worthy' aircraft, so they could trusted to create something for the Navy's needs.
You still had me laughing about the test pilot's name as I was hearing about his death. I'm sure I'm going to the bad fore for that!
Hey dude, are you aka the “Angry Astronaut?” Doppelgänger of a voice if not. Rad videos regardless of the dulcet tones😂👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙
Only four years later in 1954 would turboprop development spawn one of the most legendary engines for the C-130. I wonder if the Allison T56 would have made either the Skyraider or Skyshark relevant until the A-10 came out? Even today Air Force planners are going in reverse looking for light CAS planes like the Tucano.
One of the weird problems of the XT40 was the suitcase sized black box that controlled the gearbox which contained several fragile vacuum tubes
I read on one of the test flights that the propellers flew off and the plane landed using the small amount of residual thrust from the core engines
I do agree had this worked it would have been a huge increase in terms of capability and it might have lasted longer than the skyraider
I do think that a single large turboprop would have been better than the coupled turboprop especially in the time frame
The fairey Gannett would use a couple turboprop in the form of the double Mamba but that plane came later than the sky shark
Given how you animate your slides, I was shocked to not see Germany actually sandwiched between two pieces of bread called "USSR and America & Britain".
Fascinating, Go Navy! Thanks for the aviation history, very interesting. BTW, the air to air combat wasn't to make it an attack plane but to make it more survivable in an air combat against a jet. Sky Raiders shot down a Mig in Vietnam and dive bombers shot down Zeros in WW2.
The Fairey Gannet worked !
Ironic that the British developed an aircraft with very much the same engine set up... and they succeeded with the Fairey Gannet entering service with the Royal Navy on their flat-tops. It also could shut down one engine. It was, however a somewhat larger, 3-place beast intended for long anti sub patrols. There is actually a really decent 1/48 scale kit of the A2D! Now if a kit of an aircraft that never entered can be released, why isn't there a 1/48 scale Martin Mauler? It entered production and did serve (albeit in small numbers) in the U.S. Navy.
Ah yes! The legendary pilot known as Huge Wood!
Precursor to the Thunderscreech, the loudest, angriest, and most unwanted plane to fly. It made people sick.
It looks a lot like the fairey gannet as well
I think it looks cool
0:40 Germany was miles ahead of us English within a decade of the end of World War Two, we still lived on rations well into the mid fifties and then deGaulle ensured we were not accepted into the new found friendship of the Surrender French and the Huns and their Common Market, German economic miracle along with their wartime buddies of Japan won #ww2
I'm assuming that you're going to do a video on the A-3 skyWarrior A-4 skywarrior
Thanks for your work on this video !
May I use its link on my own channel, on the model kit unboxing video I made of this plane ?
Looks like a Gannet. I remember as a child being taken on the Ark Royal in Gibraltar, sitting in the back of a Gannet in the hanger deck while all the electronics burst into life. The only time I saw another one was driving past Deeside College in North Wales where it was a gate guardian. I believe it is in storage somewhere.
Speedbrake to facilitate tighter turns? Nah, more likely to facilitate dive bombing.
Ah, the Allison XT-40, a source of misery for every plane it was ever fitted to.
Actually 2 Skyraiders working together scored the first air to air gun kill in Vietnam
Kinda like the Westland Wyvern, took ages in development although the Wyvern did enter service.
20:52 pilot Mr. Wood looks bit like Leonardo DiCaprio
Sky Sharks - could have been cheesy 1970s Saturday Morning cartoon series -
Douglas A2D Skyshark [in jan bradys voice]; "Skyraider! Skyraider'! Skyraider'!"
Me wishing I had video editing skills to convey my detailed knowledge and strong interest in nuclear weapons into a TH-cam channel like this one. And also didn't work 60 hours a week at my product development job.
Middle kid here, this tracks.
Looks like the prop version of the F3d Skyknight And that taking on enemy fighters ? Was the tactic was to make them laugh themselves out of their cockpits?
Go figure, the next Douglas aircraft by model would be the D-558 i and ii, the skyrocket. Big leap!
RIP Huge Wood.
0:31 what is the object on the stick the p.o.w. Is holding
A white flag.
@@WALTERBROADDUSomg! It is. I gotta see an eye doctor. Thanks stranger. You’ve earned your wings today!
I'm a middle child. And don't have counter rotating props, but My Watch is Water Resistant.
great story
1:10 divine wind 2, shattered jewel boogaloo.
And why wasn't Grumman tasj with it since Grumman isthe non-official navy aircraft buulder.
Grumman was busy with other projects.
You believe modern airliners still use turbo props
The Navy should have stuck with it. The piston Skyraiders were the most effective close support plane of Vietnam war because they could loiter and so could have the Skyshark. Loitering keeps the bad guys heads down why the good guys maneuver. Jets of the day made a couple of passes and left to refuel.
The Navy couldn't get rid of its Skyraiders fast enough to make room for faster attack jets, so there was no reason they would want another slow prop plane just like it.
@@gort8203 The Skyraider remained in production until 1957 and was still in front-line service on US carriers into the 1960s, so there wasn't that much of a rush to replace them.
@ I wonder if our forces have the correct mix. Seems they only want fighters and ground support is secondary. The results is 100million or whatever F35 potentially shot down by an insurgent wielded AK47. Sensical?
@@CharlesStearman No, you're wrong. They were replacing them as fast they could with jets just as the Vietnam War was gathering steam. They got South Vietnam and USAF to take them. The Air Force ended up using them for CAS way more than the Navy did.
@@danbenson7587 An AK-47 round will never get near an F-35. You need to understand that ground attack is not done the way it was in the past.
Funky cold medina
Outwardly similar to the Skyraider... except every single component was modified! 😅
Yay! New vid!
A radial piston engine can have entire cylinders shot off, and still get out of enemy territory..........turbo prop, not so much. The A2D does have a striking resemblance to the Fairey Gannet which had good loiter time and fuel efficiency for ASW work.
If I had infinite money, I'd hire an engineer to put an Allison T56* in a Skyraider, just to see what this concept done right would look/perform like.
*best known from the Lockheed L-100/C-130 and L-188/P-3 and Grumman C-2/E-2. Did Boeing and McDonnell just skip turboprops entirely?
Douglas may have got the job as they weren't as 'busy' as other companies?
I miss the SciFi channel
Hideously ugly though the Gannett may be, it was a fascinating and successful twin engine turboprop carrier ASW workhorse.
Fairey Gannet. Dual propellor but especially the AEW version is extremely ugly. One sits at aircraft museum Hermeskeil in germany
a english elctric lighting flew into a skyraider
@13:26 ....uh.. wait
Half a meter...
Meter....
Oh you mean half the length of an M16A2.
who's a middle child ?
to me it looks like something out of "Thunderbirds".
At the end i thought ihlys had a child family trauma
Why does every video that's "about" an early jet is half about the history of jets and how they work. That's a different subject
Great material! But the weird sing-song narrative delivery is SO distracting that I had to finally mute it. Please adopt a less up-and-down, hi-note-low-note pattern. Make it sound NORMAL! 🙄
9:06. Powerplant, sweetie, not powehouse.
I was unsubscribed by you tube from your channel!
3:29 ** Community Note **
The use of a “*Hyperbole” warning for crazy statements will not be allowed by the new Administration, as it will be considered censorship.
Use of crazy hyperbole will become mandatory and expected.
Carry on.
Huge Wood...🤯
They did the research and dev for the soviets so they could build "Bear" bombers 😂
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia
The Achilles heel was the horrible T40 Allison engine...
How about |Skyshark and the wORLD ID THR dAY aFRWE rOMPORROW?
This aircraft seem to me as the unholy child of Elvis Pristley and Alice Cooper.
This plane does not "combine jets and propellers" to achieve the high speed potential of a jet engine. It will not "fly a good bit faster than a normal piston engine". A turboprop is not a jet engine and does not have more speed potential than a piston engine of equal power driving the same propeller. This is still a prop driven airplane that suffers the inherent speed limitations of propellers A jet propelled airplane has more speed potential because it eliminates these limitations, and a turbojet engine's power increases with speed while a propeller's decreases with speed, be it powered by pistons or a turbine.
A turboprop engine is more powerful than a piston engine of the same weight, but this is offset by the greater quantity of fuel required to go the same distance. The main benefits a turboprop over a piston engine are greater reliability and less frequent maintenance coupled with the ability to burn less expensive fuel.
That was a long ramble of ridiculousness. A Turboprop is a jet engine.
@@WALTERBROADDUS "Jet" usually implies that all the thrust comes from the exhaust gases. "Gas turbine" would be a better generic description.
@CharlesStearman turboprops, turbo jet, turbo fans are all gas turbines.
@@WALTERBROADDUS Man you are ignorant. It is a turbine engine, not a jet. Jet propulsion moves an aircraft by reaction to gases propelled out the exhaust.
@WALTERBROADDUS You are wrong, as usual. Jet propulsion is used by turbojets, rockets, water skis, and squids. The jet of gas or fluid out the back propels the object forward. Gas turbine engines like turboprops extract the power produced by combustion and transfer it via a shaft to a propeller, a rotor disk, or the screw of a ship. That is not a jet engine, that is a gas turbine engine. Read and learn a little before you opinionate.
Hey IHYLS could you please make a video about the polish light bomber the pzl.p23 karaś?
PS it was the first plane to bomb Germany in WW2
Italy allied with whomever currently occupied Italy!
Huge wood! LMAO!
Seems to me the British were much more successful in the early development of turboprops, both in the military and civilian roles...😏