[ARC5] Aircraft for Sale

[Tim]

That 2-bladed prop sure looks odd, but I guess the A Models had those with
the smaller engines...
Tim
N6CC

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>     One of the photos shows a label with the A scratched out and a smaller
> B stamped in. Were 28A's ever modified to B's?  What would have been done
> to them? Different radio equipment perhaps?
>
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> On 11/27/2016 4:19 PM, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>
>> According to the pilot's manual, 25 Oct 1951 version, the T-28A normally
>> was equipped with:
>>
>> ARC-3
>> ARN-7, replaced by ARN-6 starting with S/N AF50-195
>> RC-193A Marker Beacon Receiver, replaced by ARN-12 in S/N AF50-197 and
>> subsequent
>> BC-453-B Range Receiver only for aircraft AF48-1372
>> ARN-18 Glide Path Receiver
>> ARN-14 VOR Receiver
>> ARC-27 UHF comm
>>
>> So, it appears exactly ONE T-28A came off the production line with
>> SCR-274-N equipment installed.  The aircraft for sale are T-28A,
>> equipped with Wright R-1300 800 HP engines, not one of the more beloved
>> powerplants around.  For conversion into the T-28D attack aircraft the
>> R-1820 1350 hp engine was installed, many of which came off of war
>> surplus B-17's.
>>
>> The T-28A is not a small aircraft but look at the assortment of lovely
>> electronics ironmongery it carried.  Imagine what that all weighed.  No
>> wonder it needed 800 hp to be able to teach student pilots the basics of
>> flying.  By the way, the T-28 has a wing that reminds you of the P-51
>> Mustang in terms of size and shape, but the airplane used universal
>> round head rivets, not flush riveting; maximum speed capability was not
>> of the essence!
>>
>> Wayne
>> WB5WSV
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