And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Many crew chiefs weren't. Luckily, that happened long before I started working on them. Ever hear about the one that nearly went down over the Atlantic during Desert Shield/Storm? Lost and engine over the atlantic, and had to fly inverted until they got it restarted. Didn't know the pilot, but served with the TO in the 80's in Savannah. Puckering to be sure.
The Mohawk was designed as recon AC. The Army tried to arm them in Vietnam as the USAF wanted to play bombing games, and not support the Army, but that got nixed. It looks strange but it's a good AC and a lot of them are still flying in civilian hands. There used to be a battalion assigned to Echterdingen air field, which was also the plane patch for EUCOM HQ at Patch Barracks. That was a strange place. Most of the asircraft were Army, with only a c ouple corporate jets run by the AF for transporting the VIPs when needed. The USAF ran the ground organization, and the Army flew. My father ran the DFAC and had some Army types under him. They had a small snack bar and a small PX. If you wanted the full size version, you had to take the shuttle bus to Patch and catch another one to get to Robinson Barracks about 15 miles away through Stuttgart.
But, no, the Bronco did not replace the Mohawk. Only the USAF and USMC operated them.
Many pilots were relieved when it was replaced by the OV-10A Bronco.
ReplyDeleteMany crew chiefs weren't. Luckily, that happened long before I started working on them. Ever hear about the one that nearly went down over the Atlantic during Desert Shield/Storm? Lost and engine over the atlantic, and had to fly inverted until they got it restarted. Didn't know the pilot, but served with the TO in the 80's in Savannah. Puckering to be sure.
ReplyDeleteAimee Eckman, spelling might be off, but she was the TO. For the life of me, can't remember the pilot's name.
DeleteWhen was it replaced by the OV10? Mohawk was Army, Bronco was AF.
ReplyDeleteTO from 82-90
Lots of good info and connections here:
https://www.ov-1mohawkassociation.org/
The Mohawk was designed as recon AC. The Army tried to arm them in Vietnam as the USAF wanted to play bombing games, and not support the Army, but that got nixed. It looks strange but it's a good AC and a lot of them are still flying in civilian hands. There used to be a battalion assigned to Echterdingen air field, which was also the plane patch for EUCOM HQ at Patch Barracks. That was a strange place. Most of the asircraft were Army, with only a c ouple corporate jets run by the AF for transporting the VIPs when needed. The USAF ran the ground organization, and the Army flew. My father ran the DFAC and had some Army types under him. They had a small snack bar and a small PX. If you wanted the full size version, you had to take the shuttle bus to Patch and catch another one to get to Robinson Barracks about 15 miles away through Stuttgart.
ReplyDeleteBut, no, the Bronco did not replace the Mohawk. Only the USAF and USMC operated them.