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Mer B 6 - NX55811 & N55539

Publicerad 2011-05-27 09:59:05 i Propulärkultur,



Se där, en trevlig bild på en civil Republic AT-12 Guardsman...eller varför inte säga den civila beteckningen: Republic 2PA-204A. Bilden ärligt stulen från denna site, där det även bland annat står:

The pictured aircraft was sold as surplus and came on the civil registry as NX55811. Sponsered by the actor Buck Rogers the aircraft was entered in the 1949 Bendix Trophy cross-country speed contest as a 'Super P-35', and was listed as Racer number '61'. Flown by Vincent Perron was withdrawn at Grand Junction, Colorado, due to continuing engine problems.

Hmm, en skådis som hette Buck Rogers!? Har inte hört talas om, men väl seriefiguren...som även blev filmatiserad i korta avsnitt med Buster Crabbe i huvudrollen. 



I en tråd på WIX saxas följande intressanta info om AT-12:

. . Sweden had placed an order for 120 EP-106s...and for 52 SEV-2PA-204A two-seat fighters, that would be modified to serve as dive-bombers.

After the first batch of EP-106s were received in Sweden, a second order for 60 EP-106s was signed with Republic. The deliveries were not to be completed, since the United States Government placed an embargo on all military supplies to Sweden on 24 October, 1940; the undelivered airplanes were taken over by the USAAC and given the designation P-35A and were sent to the Philippines in order to reinforce the weak forces in place.

Of the dive-bombers ordered, only two had been delivered, and the remainder 50 examples from this order were taken over by the USAAC, and assigned to various training units, the airplanes redesignated as the AT-12 (advanced trainer) “Guardsman.” They were mainly employed as squadron hacks, and by war’s end, the majority of surviving examples were scrapped.

Two examples survived the scrapping, and were sold in the post-war surplus market.

One, entered as a “Super P-35” into the 1949 Bendix Trophy cross-country speed race. It was registered as NX55811, race number 61, but engine trouble forced a landing at Grand Juction, Colorado, where its brief racing career ended.

The other example was registered as NX55539 and served during some time in Latin America, where it was employed as a mapping airplane. On the vertical surfaces, it had a US and a Salvadorean flag, crossed.

It was registered in El Salvador as YS-114, and owned by Archie Baldocchi. After spending some time in El Salvador, it was returned to the USA during the 1950s, and eventually made its way to the collection owned by Ed Maloney, which eventually became the Planes of Fame Museum.

...och där plockar jag upp tråden: Den Republic AT-12 Guardsman (fast vi säger väl hellre B 6, eller hur?) som finns kvar bevarad i flygande skick bär amerikansk civilregistrering N55539.



Flygplanet finns fortfarande hos Planes Of Fame i Chino. Det har tillverkningsnummer 483-38 och skulle nog med andra ord blivit - om allt gått som först tänkt - B 6 nummer 7238 i svenska flygvapnet. Istället blev alltså kärran AT-12 nummer 41-17529 i USAAC...


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Postat av: Peter Liander

Publicerad 2011-05-27 21:34:16

Intressant! Hade inte en aaaaning om att det finns en "B 6" kvar i USA. Lägger nog in ett besök hos Planes of Fame på min "att besöka-lista". Förresten, det står redan på listan, men nu understruket...;-)

Postat av: F

Publicerad 2011-05-27 23:19:26

Jodå, minst en "B 6" kvar, Peter :)

Notera målningen av kärran; "Filipinermåling", jmfr med http://lae.blogg.se/2011/march/svenska-jaktplan-pa-filippinerna.html



Planet är målat som en P-35A från Filippinerna snarare än en AT-12...



Postat av: Gert

Publicerad 2011-05-28 01:29:00

Hmm. jag måste ha bilder på den, jag var där för ett par år sedan

Postat av: SuperEchoChris

Publicerad 2011-05-28 01:55:31

Hmmm... "ingen aaaaning"? Peter, det är drygt 30 år sedan jag visade dig bilder jag tagit på den på Chino och redan då visste vi att det var en de B 6:or som "inte kom fram"! Icke desto mindre anledning att besöka Chino! :-)

Postat av: Martin

Publicerad 2011-05-28 10:42:50

"At the end of the day it does not matter who was highest or who flew the furthest.

What matters is that you go home having had a great flight, with a big smile on

your face and a head full of beautiful views and a fantastic feeling inside,

because that is what our flying is all about."



Så sant !!



/M

Postat av: Johan Visschedijk

Publicerad 2011-07-22 13:17:27

Hello Peter (?)



You're absolutely correct, there was no actor Buck Rogers involved in the aircraft, It was Buddy Rogers who sponsored the racer. The name Buck Rogers refers to the comic strip character from the 1920s. It will be corrected in the July 31 update.



Best regards from the Netherlands,



Johan

Postat av: F

Publicerad 2011-07-22 14:30:52

Hi Johan! Many thanks for the info regarding Charles "Buddy" Rogers vs Buck Rogers! Intressing to note that Rogers also starred in the famus movie Wings of 1927. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy as a flight instructor.



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