OSH12 Sunday 7-22: Collings A-36 Apache Arrives (CoolPix)
Monday, July 23, 2012 at 12:13AM 
(click pic for hi-res) The beautiful Collings Foundation's A-36 Apache arriving at OSH12
In recent years I pushed as hard as possible to put up a large number of images from each day at Oshkosh but there just isn't enough of me to go around these days - so for now I plan to scale back the OSH posts, sometimes giving you just one big pic that's definitely worth seeing. I think this CoolPix of the Collings Foundation's recently completed North American A-36 Apache is one worth seeing!
The A-36 is a lot like the early P-51's in that it has the razorback multi-panel canopy and higher aft fuselage behind the cockpit, as well as having the Allison engine, but it differed in a variety of ways, mostly by having dive brakes built into the wings. 500 of them were built but only three remain, with two them now airworthy. This A-36 is in nearly perfect condition after the restoration... it's was amazing seeing (and hearing) it taxi in after arriving today. I'll have more pix and info on this aircraft before long.
And just so you know, I'm capturing a huge number of images each day, but it's just too time consuming to be able to get very many posted at the end of the day.
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Reader Comments (2)
Um, that's not an Apache. At least not officially. It's a Mustang. Perhaps the pilots and ground-crews referred to it as "Apache", but the AAF never did.
No one in the USAAF ever called it "Apache," because that name was given to it by a reporter or other such "uneducated" person after the War. It was called "Mustang" by both NAA and the USAAF. Pilots in the Mediterranean called it "Invader," and even went so far as to petition to have its name changed, BUT, since Douglas had already given the "Invader" name to their A-26 Medium Bomber/Attack Aircraft.
So once and for ALL time, it's "MUSTANG"!!!
Thanks.