Meet the unsung hero of the Vietnam War, the A-37 Dragonfly. This nimble attack airplane flew more than 160,000 sorties during the war and proved to be a very accurate close air support aircraft or as Juan Browne refers to it .."..a bigger, heavier 'Tweet' with F-5 engines!"
" ..these put out in MIL power and no afterburner what the T-38 puts out with afterburner ..50,000 lbs of thrust for a little over 9,000 lbs TOW so it goes like a scolded cat.. [..] ..you will melt the asphalt [..]...the fuel burn rate is super high ....350-400 gallons per hour...[..].. Three throttle settings, VISA, Mastercard and Gold card .."
"..The max indicated airspeed for the A-37 is 415 kts. When I first flew the aircraft in USAF Test Pilot school, I was initially worried that I would easily exceed that speed. Turns out that although the aircraft had plenty of thrust, the drag went up so fast that exceeding the airspeed limit wasn’t really a problem. "
Great walkaround on the blancolirio YT channel of the A-37 'Attack Jet', the only flying example in the US and a 7-year South Vietnamese combat veteran
and another museum-piece walkaround on the " Fly with Magnar" Channel
