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A carregar... Lockheed T2V/T-1A Seastar (Naval Fighters) by Steve Ginter (1999-05-01)por Steve Ginter
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Lockheed had an early lock on military jet trainer production in the United States with its very successful two-seat derivative of the P-80/F-80 Shooting Star, the T-33A/TV-2. As good as the T-Bird was, Lockheed believed a much more capable trainer could be developed from the basic T-33 design. As a private venture, under the guidance of Kelly Johnson, Lockheed sought to improve the instructor's visibility and the aircraft's low speed handling characteristics. These changes, along with redesigned and strengthened landing gear, would allow the aircraft to be considered for a carrier trainer. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Pretty standard fare for an early Naval Fighters monograph. Fourteen pages are devoted to development and even those pages are predominantly taken up by photographs. There is some coverage of the changes needed to make the T2V carrier compatible, if you’re looking for some meat on the development of the aircraft for the Navy, you’ll just have to make do with a few bones. The rest of the volume are some technical details lifted from various NavAir manuals followed by unit histories.
With a production run of 150 aircraft this is not a mainstream USN aircraft and this volume will only be of limited interest to the most die-hard fan of naval aircraft. (Consider the youngest pilots that flew them are around 80 years old.) One interesting aspect of this volume is even with later photo’s taken as late as 11/69 there is not a single “modern” aircraft in the photo’. Plenty of S-2’s, A-1’s, F8’s, etc., but nothing like a C-130 or F-4 in the background of any photograph.
Assuming another model of the Seastar is produced this book remains an excellent modelers reference. Recommended for anyone with an interest in obscure USN Aircraft, US Navy VT Squadrons, Unit and base hacks and as mentioned earlier for modelers. (