Air Force test of Wichita plane could lead to hundreds of orders

The Sandy wasn't a turbo prop was it? I thought it was the last of the big radial engines in the Vietnam war!

I did a Patriot Guard Mission for the Repatriated remains of a Sandy Pilot who's crash site was found a few years ago in Vietnam. It was quite the show with a flyby of the famed aircraft and several Sandy Pilots in attendance with their Orange slacks, white shirt with orange epaulets and Garrison Caps. I shook their hands and told them all a big thank you for serving our country.

We heard a few stories about different soldiers in attendance who were protected by a Sandy when their helicopter was shot down and others who said the Sandy's marked their targets with their rockets for a fast mover bringing in the Napalm.

I follow, I'd heard of radial engines, obviously, I hadmt thought in that context, howecer, I entirely comprehend...that is an interesting account...he CO of my unit, whom I'd let, was an O-6 when I'd sat with him for an hour, due to pin on 9-7, he hadn't at that point...I only learned much later on that he'd been an O-2 FAC pilot, the plane in the book and film Bat-21 with Gene Hackman and Danny Glover...he'd apparently flown some 150 combat missions as a FAC in one, I was always struck, as I've related on here !any times, by the sheer, raw, overawing power of the man...I just figured you'd find thst an equally interesting anecdote, it was the essentially armored Piper cub with target marking rockets, I gathered, I never saw one up close, I dont know what engine type it had, however, I just figured you'd kmow of it...incidentally, werent Douglas A-4 Skyraiders also prop-driven aircraft as well? I've seen photos of them, I think, showing they were, whether turbo or radial...I'd just wondered, obviously, no rush, many thanks....