Air Progress

[Jschmus]

Air Progress

I've added some images to my Yahoo photo page from the August/September and October/November1964 issues of Air Progress.  There are images of either art or mockups of various competitors in the Navy/Air Force/Marine LARA/COIN program.  I also included a couple of images of the Kaman UH-2 Tomahawk that was evaluated by the Army.  The UH-2 was Kaman's equivalent to the Bell UH-1.  I read somewhere that the Army liked the UH-2, and ordered a number of them to serve alongside the Huey, but the orders were cancelled after President Johnson was sworn into office (they weren't made in Texas!).

[elmayerle]

Cool, thanks.  Anyone have ideas on the simplest way to model the CV-10 transport?  I've been wanting to do at least one of those for ages, most likely in 1/48 to use one of the old Hawk kits (metal-plated one had some great decals).  Beyond that, I will have to look more closely at the Martin LARA, that does look good.  I found it interesting that the UH-2 had swiveling nose guns, I wonder if that relates to the same program that produced the AH-47?

[Captain Canada]

Sweet !

Thanks for sharing.....and getting us all wound up with twin-boom concepts !

And Eb, I'm not sure of the scaling issues, as it may be rather large, but a Flying Boxcar fuselage was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Cheers !

 

[Jschmus]

I added a new photo from Air Progress March 1969.  It's a mockup of Cessna's proposed turboprop O-2 with tandem seating.  I understand that the Air Force liked the idea, but no one bought it.  The one O-2 that was converted to turboprops was eventually converted back to piston engines.

[elmayerle]

I added a new photo from Air Progress March 1969.  It's a mockup of Cessna's proposed turboprop O-2 with tandem seating.  I understand that the Air Force liked the idea, but no one bought it.  The one O-2 that was converted to turboprops was eventually converted back to piston engines.

Interesting.  I wonder how much, if any, of that wound up in the one and only 327?