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Post subject: what is this plane, early 1950's US Navy ? Posted: 26 Mar 2021, 03:28 |
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Joined: 11/03/08 Posts: 14571 Post Likes: +22943 Location: Peachtree City GA / Stoke-On-Trent UK
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Elderly couple in our neighborhood passed. Their grandkids are here cleaning out their house, and found some 35mm slides in a box labelled "CV-47 Philippine Sea April 1953"
They asked me about this picture. Sorry for the poor quality, this is a slide projected on a wall photographed with a cell phone.
What is it ? an early version of AWACS ?
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Post subject: Re: what is this plane, early 1950's US Navy ? Posted: 26 Mar 2021, 12:43 |
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Username Protected wrote: It appears to be an AD4W or AD5W variant of the Skyraider. The pod houses an "Airborne Early Warning" RADAR, and so it is indeed a very early implementation of the E2/E3 early warning concept. I had never heard of it until now, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of information on it via Google, but that's what it is. AD-3W or AD-4W. 5 is like a station wagon for the top. 3 and 4 are single pilot and a tunnel canopy aft. 5 is side by side with Pilot in the Left seat. Large cabin continues aft. IIRC the manual said the aft cabin could be configured for 4 Officers or 12 enlisted, being 4 large individual seats or a bench seat on either side. AD-5 could outfly its oil supply with 3 drop tanks so a drum of oil could be loaded in the cabin with a transfer pump arrangement to move it up to the oil tank, which was more than 35 gallons IIRC.
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Post subject: Re: what is this plane, early 1950's US Navy ? Posted: 27 Mar 2021, 08:07 |
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There are several AD-4 flyable but I believe this is the only AD-4W still flyable. http://www.ericksoncollection.com/aircr ... skyraider/Although today it lacks the radar and dome on the belly. You can see the configuration of the upper fuselage evident in the original photo posted above.
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Post subject: Re: what is this plane, early 1950's US Navy ? Posted: 27 Mar 2021, 09:13 |
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Joined: 02/20/09 Posts: 624 Post Likes: +127 Location: Durham, NC
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The AD-4W was, as previously reported an airborne early warning aircraft for the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. The USN replaced it with the Grumman Tracer that had a newer radar. The AD used the AN/APS20 radar. Interestingly, the RN and later the Royal Air Force continued using the AN/APS20 radar sets into the 1990s. The radars long outlasted the Skyraiders in British service. The AD-4W (AEW.1 to the Britis) was replaced in 1960. But, not the radar sets. They were finally retired when the RAF replaced its Avro Shackleton AEW Mk.2s with the Boeing E-3D Sentrys in 1991.
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