Another reason to love the Skyraider. Ordinance extraordinaire.
…gives new meaning to the word “droppings” !
yuk, yuk, yuk
I have to get me one of those[:D]
Roy
Oooooo dangly bits in abundance [:D] I’m in love [8-]
Gives you a warm cuddly feeling knowing they’re on our side too.
Good fun Sub [tup]
Ahh yes, the old Pocelean Bomb.
Regards, Rick
the one advantage the Skyraider had over all the jets was it’s slow speed. The pilot could dang near park the thing right over you before hitting the button. This is nice when the bad guys are 250 feet in front of you. Plus it’s just a beautifull piece of equipment. The closest jet would probably have been an A-4E, and that’s not very close. The one major down fall with the Skyraider was also with it’s slow speed. It had problems getting away from the blast generated from a bunch of snakeyes dropped from less than two hundred feet. All this leads us into the ugly duckling; the A-10. That’s the plane we needed in the spring of “68.”
gary
The things you come up with when your on a boat for six months! Its even got a fuse! A charge too? Ive never seen this before does anyone know the details? Is the kit new, 1/48?
regards, Mac
There was an old post on this about 2 years back, so the kit’s been out for a while.
“Oh, Crap…” [loud thud]
It was a Hasegawa rebox of the Monogram kit. It’s been OOP for awhile.
The following is from midwaysailor.com
"572 was flown by CDR C. W. “Bill” Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII).
The flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC, he ended with “and one code name Sani-flush”. The FAC couldn’t believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop. When it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down.
The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward. Just as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, “What the hell was on 572’s right wing?” There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film. CDR Stoddard was later killed while flying 572 in Oct 1966. He was hit by three SAMs over Vinh."
An old picture of an old event, but still funny everytime I see it.
Darwin, O.F. [alien]
So did the kit actually have a styrene toilet bomb in it?
Hahahahaha…
Talk about small onboard bathroom. Little too small. You can crap on your enemies if you need to.
I loved to see the A-1s. They could cover an insertion or extraction and stay for what seemed like all day. The “fast movers” zipped overhead once and were gone (if you could get them at all). The pilot who is often credited for flying the subject mission was not infact the pilot of that aircraft, on that day. It is a great story.
I wish we had the A-10 in 1968. That 30MM gatling gun wold have been very useful, and helpful.
I guess that’s what happens when you get bored on a ship in the middle of nowhere…Kind of like the peanut butter jar bombs that were dropped from Cessna L-1’s in the Vietnam war. Apparently the L-1’s smoke rockets were boring, so some pilots got to thinking and found that grenades of the period fit perfectly into the jar with the lever depressed. You pulled the pin, stuck it in with the jar with the lever down, and when you dropped it falls out and explodes. Clever. [:D]
So they really include a toilet bomb?
Yes. The Hasegawa rebox had a new sprue with the toilet on it.
It is no longer in production. I wish one of them would rerelease it with the toilet sprue. I would like to have one to go with my other 4. [:-,]
But in all seriousness…[angel][angel][angel], OHHH CR*P!!
There are really interesting studies done on bomb drops at near sonic speeds. Obviously not a problem for the Spad and didn’t at least one version have a crew potty??
Videos of bombs climbing back up into the bay, tucking themselves up in the boundary layer and flying along w/ the ac. Turning and banging against the fuselage. Thought the T-bomb probably flew ok till the crew chief pulled up his pants and popped his chute.
Does anybody know what the markings would be for Dieter Dengler’s A-1? I just saw “Rescue Dawn” a couple weeks ago and although he was shot down on his first combat mission, the guy surely deserves to be remembered for his survival escape and evasion afterwards. I was thinking of building a kit of his bird.
He was in VA-145 on the Ranger.