I spent four years as a mechanic then crew chief on these birds stationed with 1st Air Commando Wing at Hurlburt Field FL. They were dirty, oily and downright noisy. But man they were awesome. I flew the run from Florida to Panama several times over the course of my duty there. Some of my old pictures of them are buried in a box somewhere. What great memories.
+Mike Lisi www.afwing.com/intro/b26/1.htm 6 pages here about B-26 I was also there at Eglin Field Nine, prep for the "Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba" April 1961.
I flew in the plastic nose of a recon A-26 as a CAP Cadet at Myrtle Beach Air Base in 1947. One of the greatest thrills I've had in many years of love of airplanes. A low level pass at high speed while hanging so far forward in that clear bubble was scary for a moment but then just spectacularly exciting for a 16 year old. Undoubtedly the fastest prop plane I've flown in.
I don't normally comment on TH-cam. But watching this, I had to. I love planes. I've built models of them all my life. The very first plane model I completed (and wasn't a ball of model glue).. the first one I bothered to paint, the first one I was truly proud of.. was a Douglas A-26 Invader. Its still one of the most beautiful aircraft (imho). Watching this was like I was 10 again and building that model. Kudos to you and your restoration.
Nice aircraft and outstanding restoration work1. I received my first training as an airman in B-26, I remember well, I miss the roaring sound of the Pratt and Whitney engines, the smoke and all that stuff in the flightline. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you very much for bringing back this beautiful bird in -flight condition again.
Thank you for the wonderful work. I was stationed at Howard AFB in the 605th Air Comando Squadron.and worked in phase maintainence in 1968. Worked on the A26 .Great to see that bird flying again.Your dedications amazing.
Excellent job! I grew up with the sound of piston props flying overhead, first in Hawthorne, CA and then near Moffett Naval Air Station in the SF Bay Area. Even today the sound brings a smile to my face that lasts for hours.
Damn I hope we didn’t wake you up when we launched out of Hawthorne in the wee hours of the morning in the big ole Convair 580 that we had in Northrops hangar?
AZ Ed and I worked n 679 at England AFB 66-67 and have been to Mecham Field several times and got a ride in September 2019. Great job by JR & all the guys.
+Dave Thompson Since when the A-26s were stationed at Howard and when did the leave for good. I live in Quito, Ecuador and recall seeing here once in a while A.26 coming from the Albrook or Howard.
I spent years working on the A-26 "Yer ol' dad" in Everett and Arlington Washington. Our museum tried to get it going but funding and leadership fell out. I don't know what happened to it but this was truly beautiful to see since ours didn't make it. Thank you for this amazing video!
That I dont know I'll look for an N number and try to get the ownership history. It was in Everett for a few years before we knocked the wings off and moved it. Somebody had it shipped out a few years ago though. Would be neat. She was never built as a bomber though, no structure in it for a turret, bomb bay, or pylons at all. Make a sweet private plane! :)
+Andrew Porter I would give my eye teeth to own an aircraft of this quality & history.WW2,Korea,Bay of pigs,Vietnam & all the others we know nothing about.
Nice I'll look around for it. As I recall it was pretty close to being able to go together. Engines where a mess though, an accessory blockout plate was even left open for unknown years among other things.
I grew up on a small airport and we had an A26, B25, B17, P51, P38 and a static display F 86 Saber Jet. My favorite was the A 26 Intruder and use to love talking to the owner which had flown the A 26 in Korean war. Them 8 50 cal gun's in the nose could do a lot of damage he told me. I learned to fly there in Cessna 172's before going to Vietnam and haven't flown since but I sure miss hearing them warbirds take off.
Beautiful job men! Very nice video as well! Thank you so much for letting us share the joy and love that you obviously have poured into this outstanding restoration. Carry on and God Speed!
Can't wait to show my dad this video! He flew a-26s in Korea but his had the glass nose, and was named irene Marie after my mother! Great restoration job guys! Can't wait to see the dmile on my dads face! Hes now 80, and still talks anout how he lovef this plane!
My dad flew these in korea. 50 recon missions, some over china, took pictures of enemy movement and bombing effect. got distinguished flying medal. great plane.
Back at Detroit City Airport, there was an A-26 standing at an access strip in a back area of the airport. That was years ago, and I don't know if it's still there. It was there up until the early 90s. I used to drive past that place a lot. Hopefully, someone bought it and rebuilt it.
Very well done video on a very worthy project by a group of dedicated men that love aviation. I thought the video was extremely well thought out and planned and loved the restoration photo still after the demo flight. All of those guys should be commended for a job well done in bringing back a rare plane indeed. Thank you for sharing this with the general public.
My father, Don Fisher, was a B26 pilot in the Korean War and later a B47 pilot in the late 50's and early 60's. His older cousin, Ray Fisher was an A26 pilot in WW2 and remarkably neither of them knew that had flown the virtually same aircraft.
I know Im late but well done, people. Aspect ratio didn't spoil it for me. Not being there for the occasion was my problem! She looks great and sounds very happy. Hi from UK.
The 4:32 mark gives a perfect example as to "Flying" the aircraft off the ground instead of pulling the nose up on take off. The A-26 has at that time was called the High-Speed wing design. Because of this and the flap/aileron design, the pilot was required fly onto an off a runway without attempting to flair at all.
I have been in love with WW2 area aircraft sence i can remember,i am 61 years old, the jet age never did a thing for me, i live by an airport that has airshows every now an then, when something big with props goes over my home, now that makes me look up in the air.
Invader;'s were most bitchenest plane to come out of douglas aircraft at anytime. total hotrod, carry bomb's, fast. handled good. high flying. good power. good visibility. nice cockpit. excellent design. Total Stud Airplane !!!!!!!!!
This is one of the best videos I've seen about a restored airplane and one of my favorite airplanes, as well. The videography was outstanding and the airplane was gorgeous. BUT, why did they screw with the aspect ratio of the video. This literally ruined the experience for me and was totally unnecessary, as far as I'm concerned. All the people look like squat gnomes and everything round, like tires and engine nacelles look squashed. This could have been exceptional if not for someone trying to 'fix' something that didn't need fixing.
Years ago, I went to visit the Planes of Fame museum and walked around the airport. Seems to me somebody had an A-26 parked nearby. Pilots don't like outsiders walking through the hangers, that's for sure.
Both of these airplanes are different and the manufactures are different too.The b-26 is LOCKHEED MARTIN AIRCRAFT COMPANYThe A-26 is all douglass which is now boeing today.
StarHoppen: I agree. What I meant by W/O Music......I set the video to some copy written music, according to You Tube, and it can't be seen by the general public.
How did you verify this was an actual A, varient instead of regular B 26? There were many B26s and B 25s sold postwar that were used as fast corporate transport aircraft. These corporate aircraft were extensively modified of course including fairing over of the glass nose. I know there were some of these misidentified as the attack versions of both as both were modified in the war, with an astonishing array and number of weapons, into excellent ground attack aircraft flying over altitude attack and bombing missions... Very successfully in the pacific Theatre. I've been unable to find these uses and modifications in the European Theatre however. That may partially be because the incredible dehavland mosquito filled that role quite nicely for both British and Americans. Plus the mosquito was a better aircraft than either the B25 or B 26 by most every measure. The Mosquito was faster than fighters, In fact fastest aircraft in the entire war until the ME262 and other jet and rocket powered craft appeared. It could carry the same bomb load as the B 17 flying fortress with only two crew members and had a much better accuracy record, maybe because most bomb runs were at low levels but the British had an excellent system on bombing that proved more accurate at the end of the war than the Norden bomb sight at high altitudes, it had greater ranges than the 25 or 26 and finally, but perhaps most important it had the lowest loss rate of any combat aircraft in the war even though it flew some of the most dangerous missions. Personally I don't know why America didn't simply make them under contract and fly them, or twice as many even, instead of the B17. Since it could deliver the same four thousand pound bomb load as the fortress but it was far faster, two missions could have been flown per day, perhaps using different crews, in the same time frame as a single fortress mission doubling tonnage dropped. I can sort of understand the Lancaster and Liberator as both had greater bomb loads than the fortress. Just has always seemed to me like that would have been a better way to go with far less crew dead and more bombs dropped speeding up the wars end. Then again im not a professional at air combat and tactics so maybe there's something I don't know that would have made that unworkable. I imagine politics would have been the primary barrier to that however, sad as it is when politics even in war are more important than the yens of thousands of crewmen who gave their lives in daylight Bombing in fortresses. But that's the way humans are and that's one of the main reasons we will always be plauged with war and have to spend far far more of our precious treasure on better ways to destroy and kill than on the truly great things like space and ocean exploration, colonizing other planets, eradicating cancer, Parkinson's, and other diseases.
Late night FLA CCC road / emergency strip SE of Tampa... boonies! I was like 15 years old, but knew kerosene from AvGas Was handed a roll of bills at dawn... Helped me buy my old Harley 165 Hummer... Friends from Vandenberg Airport... THEN Tampa's grass strip.... Gassed up C-47, A-26, C-123... A HelioCourier.... Others fueld up the C-130.... This was NOT Bay of Pigs Time... But 1966... Spooks, for sure... A captain from MacDill... We never talked about it... Always wondered.... Loved R-2800s ever since...
We had one of these land on our Army air base in RoK just after Vietnam was over but it had been re-engined with turboprops and seemed to be fitted out as some sort of recon job judging by the camera ports and antennas. Another one landed just after dark but had multiple cannons mounted in the nose and hardpoints with ordnance hanging from them. Neither one had any marking whatsoever. We had to guard them overnight and they left just before dawn. The brass who saw them off told us we'd never seen them, they didn't exist. CIA or ???? We decided we didn't want to know.
Ive never even heard of an A26 converted to turbo props, that would be a pretty good feet of engineering involving several people so someone else has to know about the aircraft you are describing. Would just like to know who did the conversion.
Daniel Davis, Sr. Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised. Don't recall what, if any, insignia was on the flight suits soooo, you may very well be right. One thing you learn real early, real fast in the service is not to ask dumb questions & when everyone around outranks you 5 ways from Sunday.....LOL!
***** They were B-26K's stationed in Thailand. Unmarked usually. They flew ground attack missions in VN. Stock Korean war planes completely rebuilt and wing strengthened with extra arms. Quite a transformation of the A. They were Counter Invaders. A well known "secret" force not supposed to exist. Known as "Nimrods".
Chaz Pagano Ahhhh, nice to know a name for them. Like I said, I don't recall any insignia either on the planes or the flight suits. Since they appeared to be covert I'd guess the engine conversion was done quietly in some friendly country(Taiwan??) while adding the armament and sigint/photo recon stuff could be done in-house as there were certainly enough aviation personnel (for a price) floating around that part of the world - the US doesn't/didn't have a corner on all the expertise....... Looked deadly as hell just sitting there in the revetments. I was just glad they seemed to be 'ours'.
With a few more million she would of looked better Oh to be a billionaire so all ww2 planes could look good and fly again ! where they all should be in the air , whats wrong with all these billionaires in AMERICA don't they know theirs planes that need restoring !!
You cannot compare reactors and engines. Enginses have a music, not reactors. An Allison is not a Rolls Royce. Beethoven is not Bach or Mozart. P51 also,...
I spent four years as a mechanic then crew chief on these birds stationed with 1st Air Commando Wing at Hurlburt Field FL.
They were dirty, oily and downright noisy. But man they were awesome. I flew the run from Florida to Panama several times over the course of my duty there. Some of my old pictures of them are buried in a box somewhere. What great memories.
I served 16amxs/16amu at hurlburt...glad to see a fellow AFSOC brother
+Mike Lisi www.afwing.com/intro/b26/1.htm
6 pages here about B-26
I was also there at Eglin Field Nine, prep for the "Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba" April 1961.
Curtis Gregory Gentlemen from a Nam era Navy guy..... Thanks and a tip of the hat. 🇺🇸👍
I flew in the plastic nose of a recon A-26 as a CAP Cadet at Myrtle Beach Air Base in 1947. One of the greatest thrills I've had in many years of love of airplanes. A low level pass at high speed while hanging so far forward in that clear bubble was scary for a moment but then just spectacularly exciting for a 16 year old. Undoubtedly the fastest prop plane I've flown in.
I don't normally comment on TH-cam. But watching this, I had to. I love planes. I've built models of them all my life. The very first plane model I completed (and wasn't a ball of model glue).. the first one I bothered to paint, the first one I was truly proud of.. was a Douglas A-26 Invader. Its still one of the most beautiful aircraft (imho).
Watching this was like I was 10 again and building that model. Kudos to you and your restoration.
Nice aircraft and outstanding restoration work1.
I received my first training as an airman in B-26, I remember well, I miss the roaring sound of the Pratt and Whitney engines, the smoke and all that stuff in the flightline.
Congratulations to all of you. Thank you very much for bringing back this beautiful bird in -flight condition again.
Thank you for the wonderful work. I was stationed at Howard AFB in the 605th Air Comando Squadron.and worked in phase maintainence in 1968. Worked on the A26 .Great to see that bird flying again.Your dedications amazing.
Excellent job! I grew up with the sound of piston props flying overhead, first in Hawthorne, CA and then near Moffett Naval Air Station in the SF Bay Area. Even today the sound brings a smile to my face that lasts for hours.
Damn I hope we didn’t wake you up when we launched out of Hawthorne in the wee hours of the morning in the big ole Convair 580 that we had in Northrops hangar?
The first A-26 I ever saw was at NKP Thailand in 1968 and I thought it was one of the most beautiful aircraft I had ever seen.
I do believe this is my favorite warbird. Thank you for the video and all the hard work that went into the restoration.
David Gibson, the last model A 26 achieved 370 mph
AZ Ed and I worked n 679 at England AFB 66-67 and have been to Mecham Field several times and got a ride in September 2019. Great job by JR & all the guys.
My father flew these, and B-26 Marauder, with US Army Air Corps and Air Force Reserve. Great video, thanks, it made my day!
I'm glad you're restoring this A-26, because I watched the "other one" crash in Kankakee, Illinois in 1993!
+Dave Thompson Since when the A-26s were stationed at Howard and when did the leave for good. I live in Quito, Ecuador and recall seeing here once in a while A.26 coming from the Albrook or Howard.
Beautiful!! Great job to all involved!
Beautiful video, I loved the restoration photos at the end, the music was perfect. What a story!
I spent years working on the A-26 "Yer ol' dad" in Everett and Arlington Washington. Our museum tried to get it going but funding and leadership fell out. I don't know what happened to it but this was truly beautiful to see since ours didn't make it. Thank you for this amazing video!
you sure this isn't. your aircraft?They said this plane was in Washington state & stored in Arlington. WA
That I dont know I'll look for an N number and try to get the ownership history. It was in Everett for a few years before we knocked the wings off and moved it. Somebody had it shipped out a few years ago though. Would be neat. She was never built as a bomber though, no structure in it for a turret, bomb bay, or pylons at all. Make a sweet private plane! :)
+Andrew Porter
I would give my eye teeth to own an aircraft of this quality & history.WW2,Korea,Bay of pigs,Vietnam & all the others we know nothing about.
Lotta history, this isnt my plane though, it was sitting around till the mid to early 2000s I think.
Nice I'll look around for it. As I recall it was pretty close to being able to go together. Engines where a mess though, an accessory blockout plate was even left open for unknown years among other things.
Thank you for this wonderful video. My Mom and Dad worked for Douglas at the Tulsa plant during WWII. It is great to see one of these planes fly.
MIne both worked at the Santa Monica plant during wwii.
I grew up on a small airport and we had an A26, B25, B17, P51, P38 and a static display F 86 Saber Jet. My favorite was the A 26 Intruder and use to love talking to the owner which had flown the A 26 in Korean war. Them 8 50 cal gun's in the nose could do a lot of damage he told me. I learned to fly there in Cessna 172's before going to Vietnam and haven't flown since but I sure miss hearing them warbirds take off.
Beautiful job men! Very nice video as well! Thank you so much for letting us share the joy and love that you obviously have poured into this outstanding restoration. Carry on and God Speed!
Worked on A-26's at NKP 67-69. Also had some flying time during maintenance check flights. Great aircraft and a lot of good memories.
Can't wait to show my dad this video! He flew a-26s in Korea but his had the glass nose, and was named irene Marie after my mother! Great restoration job guys! Can't wait to see the dmile on my dads face! Hes now 80, and still talks anout how he lovef this plane!
TURN THE TIGERS LOOSE tells the story...
Unforgettable!
Congratulations for this awesome labour of love! She's a beauty!
Thank you so much for sharing with us
Just absolute beautiful to see the old bird back again.
This aircraft is so sleek and emaculate, it truly was ahead of its time.
My dad flew these in korea. 50 recon missions, some over china, took pictures of enemy movement and bombing effect. got distinguished flying medal. great plane.
Back at Detroit City Airport, there was an A-26 standing at an access strip in a back area of the airport. That was years ago, and I don't know if it's still there. It was there up until the early 90s. I used to drive past that place a lot. Hopefully, someone bought it and rebuilt it.
Very well done video on a very worthy project by a group of dedicated men that love aviation. I thought the video was extremely well thought out and planned and loved the restoration photo still after the demo flight. All of those guys should be commended for a job well done in bringing back a rare plane indeed. Thank you for sharing this with the general public.
Flew and fought in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs operation. Still used as a water bomber used to put out brush fires.
My father, Don Fisher, was a B26 pilot in the Korean War and later a B47 pilot in the late 50's and early 60's. His older cousin, Ray Fisher was an A26 pilot in WW2 and remarkably neither of them knew that had flown the virtually same aircraft.
I know Im late but well done, people.
Aspect ratio didn't spoil it for me.
Not being there for the occasion was my problem!
She looks great and sounds very happy.
Hi from UK.
Awesome determination of these people who have managed to restore a plane that was scrapped.
Excellent plane and restoration. Bloody good video to boot. Mike, Castleford, GB...
That was magnificent , thank you for all of the hard work in saving such a beautiful bird, Cheers from New Zealand
SUCH A beautiful job on this restoration. Wonderful!
Wow, what an elegant aircraft.
Thanks to all that had anything to do with restoring this great old bird!
The 4:32 mark gives a perfect example as to "Flying" the aircraft off the ground instead of pulling the nose up on take off. The A-26 has at that time was called the High-Speed wing design. Because of this and the flap/aileron design, the pilot was required fly onto an off a runway without attempting to flair at all.
what a beautiful plane! thank you for sharing this superb video of my favourite airplane... great work on restoring her
you have a beautiful invader, one piece of historical aviation , good job
You have to love those old radials on start up.
Awesome work! Beautiful plane!
Awesome. Keep them flying !!!
wow that shocked me !! that's amazing guys you are amazing !!
Awesome job guys, keep her flyin!
Great video Thanks for sharing it.
EXCELENT, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
CONGRATULATION
SANKITOELKITON
Outstanding restoration!
Unbelievable... beautiful classic airplane!
I have been in love with WW2 area aircraft sence i can remember,i am 61 years old, the jet age never did a thing for me, i live by an airport that has airshows every now an then, when something big with props goes over my home, now that makes me look up in the air.
Awesome resto
Oh the sound of those sweet beautiful engines.
Gerald Penn, R 2800 engine was most reliable of all big radials
Ain't she a beaut! Love those round motors
Super job !
Invader;'s were most bitchenest plane to come out of douglas aircraft at anytime.
total hotrod, carry bomb's, fast. handled good. high flying. good power.
good visibility. nice cockpit. excellent design.
Total Stud Airplane !!!!!!!!!
A hulk in a field.... to....
WAAA!
WELL DONE!
This is one of the best videos I've seen about a restored airplane and one of my favorite airplanes, as well. The videography was outstanding and the airplane was gorgeous. BUT, why did they screw with the aspect ratio of the video. This literally ruined the experience for me and was totally unnecessary, as far as I'm concerned. All the people look like squat gnomes and everything round, like tires and engine nacelles look squashed. This could have been exceptional if not for someone trying to 'fix' something that didn't need fixing.
Here you go......enjoy. th-cam.com/video/gZW9yUk4yL8/w-d-xo.html
Il me rappelle le B.26...émotion, merci!
Beautiful old bird!! 👏🏻🌟🥃
When a old WW2 bomber flies the best scenes are those while it's in a flyover a area of land by the airfield.
Money well spent guys. A real nice job. Wishing you continued success on this fabulous A-26. Why the 9x16 aspect?
Years ago, I went to visit the Planes of Fame museum and walked around the airport. Seems to me somebody had an A-26 parked nearby. Pilots don't like outsiders walking through the hangers, that's for sure.
Excellent.
Both of these airplanes are different and the manufactures are different too.The b-26 is LOCKHEED MARTIN AIRCRAFT COMPANYThe A-26 is all douglass which is now boeing today.
Is this N4988N shown in the "before" video? WOWZERS!
What a great story.
Was just at the HAG hangar last week. Not there anymore. Back in Ohio.
StarHoppen: I agree. What I meant by W/O Music......I set the video to some copy written music, according to You Tube, and it can't be seen by the general public.
Beautiful job gentleman she looks beautiful too.
thanks.
"EXCELLENT"
Me gusta este reporte...
muy emocional!!!!!!!!!!!
The beautiful music of raw horsepower.
Yeah! Don't you just love it?
How did you verify this was an actual A, varient instead of regular B 26? There were many B26s and B 25s sold postwar that were used as fast corporate transport aircraft. These corporate aircraft were extensively modified of course including fairing over of the glass nose. I know there were some of these misidentified as the attack versions of both as both were modified in the war, with an astonishing array and number of weapons, into excellent ground attack aircraft flying over altitude attack and bombing missions... Very successfully in the pacific Theatre. I've been unable to find these uses and modifications in the European Theatre however. That may partially be because the incredible dehavland mosquito filled that role quite nicely for both British and Americans. Plus the mosquito was a better aircraft than either the B25 or B 26 by most every measure. The Mosquito was faster than fighters, In fact fastest aircraft in the entire war until the ME262 and other jet and rocket powered craft appeared. It could carry the same bomb load as the B 17 flying fortress with only two crew members and had a much better accuracy record, maybe because most bomb runs were at low levels but the British had an excellent system on bombing that proved more accurate at the end of the war than the Norden bomb sight at high altitudes, it had greater ranges than the 25 or 26 and finally, but perhaps most important it had the lowest loss rate of any combat aircraft in the war even though it flew some of the most dangerous missions. Personally I don't know why America didn't simply make them under contract and fly them, or twice as many even, instead of the B17. Since it could deliver the same four thousand pound bomb load as the fortress but it was far faster, two missions could have been flown per day, perhaps using different crews, in the same time frame as a single fortress mission doubling tonnage dropped. I can sort of understand the Lancaster and Liberator as both had greater bomb loads than the fortress. Just has always seemed to me like that would have been a better way to go with far less crew dead and more bombs dropped speeding up the wars end. Then again im not a professional at air combat and tactics so maybe there's something I don't know that would have made that unworkable. I imagine politics would have been the primary barrier to that however, sad as it is when politics even in war are more important than the yens of thousands of crewmen who gave their lives in daylight Bombing in fortresses. But that's the way humans are and that's one of the main reasons we will always be plauged with war and have to spend far far more of our precious treasure on better ways to destroy and kill than on the truly great things like space and ocean exploration, colonizing other planets, eradicating cancer, Parkinson's, and other diseases.
The A model was used with glass nose with cameras mounted for aireal l photography.
Can you even get engine parts anymore?
Years ago I witnessed a flatbed , here in Auburn, Washington, with a seriously damaged A26 fuselage. Wonder if it was this one ?
awesome plane
Whattaya mean, without music? This baby's got TWIN musicmakers!
~:)
Is this the one that's been for sale for a while?
Don't most single pilot aircraft have the throttle quadrant on the left?
Late night FLA CCC road / emergency strip
SE of Tampa... boonies!
I was like 15 years old, but knew kerosene from AvGas
Was handed a roll of bills at dawn...
Helped me buy my old Harley 165 Hummer...
Friends from Vandenberg Airport...
THEN Tampa's grass strip....
Gassed up C-47, A-26, C-123...
A HelioCourier....
Others fueld up the C-130....
This was NOT Bay of Pigs Time...
But 1966...
Spooks, for sure...
A captain from MacDill...
We never talked about it...
Always wondered....
Loved R-2800s ever since...
Flown until the wings fell off.
Very Sharp!
很美 ！很漂亮的飛機！
i love the old war birds, and hate that more weren't saved
there's nothing like the sound of a piston/ prop engine at full song
+white03Mach1 More are being saved. Many from Lake Michigan and ones found in the WW2 war zones.
Glad someone had the money - she is beautiful!
these are not 2800 engines
must be the rebuilt a-26?
very cool
here in Chile we hava one, only in display, i dream with you !!!
Tulsa plant still there but makes school busses
Douglas built an excellent aircraft.My father flew C-47's off Tininin & Saipan.He said "Douglas built a hellava plane.Saved my butt more than once."
poopingbotham A= ATTACK as in ground attack, a flying tank
We had one of these land on our Army air base in RoK just after Vietnam was over but it had been re-engined with turboprops and seemed to be fitted out as some sort of recon job judging by the camera ports and antennas. Another one landed just after dark but had multiple cannons mounted in the nose and hardpoints with ordnance hanging from them. Neither one had any marking whatsoever. We had to guard them overnight and they left just before dawn. The brass who saw them off told us we'd never seen them, they didn't exist. CIA or ???? We decided we didn't want to know.
Ive never even heard of an A26 converted to turbo props, that would be a pretty
good feet of engineering involving several people so someone else has to know
about the aircraft you are describing. Would just like to know who did the
conversion.
Probably a couple of "Air America" birds.
Daniel Davis, Sr. Actually, I wouldn't be at all surprised. Don't recall what, if any, insignia was on the flight suits soooo, you may very well be right. One thing you learn real early, real fast in the service is not to ask dumb questions & when everyone around outranks you 5 ways from Sunday.....LOL!
***** They were B-26K's stationed in Thailand. Unmarked usually. They flew ground attack missions in VN. Stock Korean war planes completely rebuilt and wing strengthened with extra arms. Quite a transformation of the A. They were Counter Invaders. A well known "secret" force not supposed to exist. Known as "Nimrods".
Chaz Pagano Ahhhh, nice to know a name for them. Like I said, I don't recall any insignia either on the planes or the flight suits. Since they appeared to be covert I'd guess the engine conversion was done quietly in some friendly country(Taiwan??) while adding the armament and sigint/photo recon stuff could be done in-house as there were certainly enough aviation personnel (for a price) floating around that part of the world - the US doesn't/didn't have a corner on all the expertise....... Looked deadly as hell just sitting there in the revetments. I was just glad they seemed to be 'ours'.
すばらしい。
I wonder, do the deiceing boots work?
Looks like newbonne has found your answer, Poopingbotham.
Attack
wtf look at this guys youtube channel name
Here is an update for you rustybonner here is her facebook the A-26 is now called silver dragon
facebook.com/a26invaderllcc/
With a few more million she would of looked better Oh to be a billionaire so all ww2 planes could look good and fly again ! where they all should be in the air , whats wrong with all these billionaires in AMERICA don't they know theirs planes that need restoring !!
You cannot compare reactors and engines. Enginses have a music, not reactors.
An Allison is not a Rolls Royce.
Beethoven is not Bach or Mozart.
P51 also,...
Beautiful…just beautiful ❤🇺🇸❤