From the Usual USAF Source:
You don't see too many flyable Peashooters; I've never seen one in the air. The others? Yes, quite a lot... including F-86s in active service, albeit not with OUR air force. But never a Peashooter.
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| Air Frame: (Left to right) An F-86 Sabre, a P-51 Mustang, P-40 Warhawk, and P-26 Peashooter perform at the Planes of Fame Air Show in Chino, Calif., May 5, 2013. (Courtesy photo by Frank Mormillo) (Click to embiggen) |
Just think, at one time the P-26 was our MAINLINE fighter aircraft (abeit short-lived as aero-progress in those days moved by leaps & bounds)
ReplyDeleteYeah... can you imagine us going to war with the Luftwaffe with the P-26 as our main fighter? Flying P-40s against Zeros was bad enough...
DeleteThat Peashooter (love the name) looks similar to a plane that was at the airshow at Shepphard a few years back. But I don't know my planes that well.
ReplyDeleteI love the color scheme on the P-26.
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