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Old 02-19-2010 | 06:00 AM
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Default Light attack airplane proposal: Cessna 526

Nothing new here, just wanted to get this old beauty out and look her again. It was a great airplane that probably should have been secured as a JPATS trainer. In the end it lost out to a slightly cheaper airplane that had a single engine rather than two. But those who reviewed it at the time thought it the better airplane in the 1995 JPATS competition. Ironically, there is currently a push in Congress to acquire a number of LAAR (light attack and armed reconnaissance) airplanes, and the contract may very well go to a foreign supplier this time. I say, hang a GAU-14 Gatling gun in the nose, mount a few rockets on the wings, and make 750 of them.





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