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Can you identify this light, single engine USAF aircraft?
This aircraft flew over the house today while I was transplanting my corn seedlings to the garden.
I live right next to a airport so single engines are always whizzing by and I hardly notice.
However, this one did not land and it passed by with a nice loud sound...and with some zip. I suspect it was just sightseeing over the lake. That happens a lot.
Unusual design. The fuselage ended and two struts continued to the stabilizers. It was grey. It sported the star on the starboard wing and "USAF" on the port.
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/silver_smyth/photo/294...
(Sorry about the drawing. I am no artist.)
Nope. Wasn't the OV-10. Similar design though.
The aircraft I saw was smaller and only had a single engine on the leading front. Not on the wings.
Nope. Not a P-38. Again, the plane I saw only had one engine.
You know what. I bet it is the O-2 Skymaster, Cessna 337. I just didn't notice the rear engine. (It flew directly overhead and I was unable to see the profile.)
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
What you drew is definitely a push me/pull you. O2. I was intimately acquainted with one long enough to get shot down. That probably has something to do with not liking to fly unless I'm the pilot.
- 1 decade ago
Sounds like a Cessna 337, an inline twin engine that pulls from the front and pushes from the back. Big cabin with twin booms going to the tail. I do not know the air force calls it. Look for a movie, BAT 19 or BAT something. Aircraft was used as an observation craft with crew of one or two.
- 1 decade ago
Cessna o-2B super skymaster, a Vietnam aircraft
go to yahoo image type in single engine Vietnam 1st row last one
the drawing looks something I saw on the history or military channel
Source(s): I look it up - Gordon SLv 51 decade ago
Probably an OV-10 which is a spotter plane, the Air Force may call it something different but the Marine Corps calls them OV-10
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco is a turboprop-driven light attack and cargo aircraft, and it looks like your drawing. Here's a top view - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rockwell_OV-10_...
It has twin propellers though, your's doesn't...
