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A-7D/E Corsair II

Via AvGeekery. The A-7A/B/C variants suffered from the troubled TF30 turbofan engine. When the USAF was pressured into  buying the Corsair II, they insisted on quite a few improvements, foremost being the adoption of the TF41 turbofan  (an Alison built variant of the Rolls Royce Spey). Other improvements included switching to the M61 Vulcan, and…

Via AvGeekery.

The A-7A/B/C variants suffered from the troubled TF30 turbofan engine. When the USAF was pressured into  buying the Corsair II, they insisted on quite a few improvements, foremost being the adoption of the TF41 turbofan  (an Alison built variant of the Rolls Royce Spey). Other improvements included switching to the M61 Vulcan, and greatly improved avionics. The A-7D/E were the first operational planes with a Heads Up Display, and coupled with the avionics, gave the aircraft exceptional accuracy in weapons delivery in an era before smart bombs.

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  1. CTII Raven

    The TF-41 had its own issues. One blade row was infamous for discharging blades.
    I would sub,it that the A-7 was the easiest to maintain of its generation.

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  2. George V

    Back in the day I heard someone say that the A-7E had a lot of capability and didn’t need two aircrew to fly it like the F-4 and F-14. It only needed 1 and 1/2 people.

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  3. CT II Raven

    That could explain the roaches I found in the cockpit after cross-country trips to & from Red Flag …

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  4. McThag

    The Vigilante beat the Corsair to operational status with a HUD.

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  5. Heltau

    I worked on the APQ-126 forward looking radar during 1971 to 1990. Mostly AIMD, worked on the sweep genator of the system and later the whole system along with fixing the test equipment that we ran the radar boxes on. It was a very nice radar for the amount of electronics it was made out of. It was made by Texas Interments. (TI)
    TI made a modification on the radar set around 1975 or so and this make it work and respond so much better that the pilots would remark that they could pick up birds flying through the radar beam as targets. Plus the amount of incoming work on the radar dropped about 80 per cent for the AQ work center. That was nice because you could take more time in testing the equipment coming in than you did before the modification was done.

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  6. Captain Ned

    SLUF!!

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  7. Patrick Carroll

    “When your out of Corsairs, you’re out of fighters.”

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