Temco TT Pinto
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The Temco TT Pinto is a tandem two-seat primary jet trainer built for the United States Navy by Temco Aircraft of Dallas, Texas.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Design and development
The Temco Model 51 had been initially proposed to the US Air Force in response to an Air Force competition for a jet-powered primary trainer, which was won by the Cessna T-37 Tweet. The concept behind the Model 51 was an attempt to provide primary training in a jet-powered aircraft. The official name for the Model 51 was the Pinto.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The Pinto was a mid-wing, tricycle landing gear trainer with an enclosed cockpit powered by a single Continental Motors J69-T-9 (license-built Turbomeca Marboré) jet engine. The aircraft carried no armament.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The TT-1s were equipped with many of the same features found in operational jets, including ejection seats, liquid oxygen equipment, speed brakes, along with typical flight controls and instrument panels. Although the flight characteristics were considered good, the "wave off" capability was rated marginal due to being slightly underpowered.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
After its first flight in 1956, the prototype was sent to the Naval Air Test Center (NATC) Patuxent River to be evaluated alongside the Beech Model 73 Jet Mentor. Fourteen of the aircraft, designated TT-1, were produced between 1955 and 1957.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
AJI T-610 Super Pinto
In 1968, American Jet Industries (AJI) (later to become Gulfstream Aerospace) re-engined a TT-1 Pinto. The J69 was replaced with a Script error: No such module "convert". General Electric CJ610 (the civil version of the J85). The modified aircraft, called the T-610 Super Pinto, flew on 28 June 1968.[1] The new engine significantly increased performance, with maximum speed reaching Script error: No such module "convert"., and AJI marketed the aircraft as a light attack aircraft.[1][2]
The prototype Super Pinto, together with drawings and production rights, were purchased by the Philippine Air Force, which planned to build the aircraft as the T-610 Cali.[3] An incomplete second prototype was shipped to the Philippines where it was completed and flown, however the collapse of the Marcos administration resulted in the shelving of the project.
In 1988 a joint venture was announced for a new version of the Super Pinto, called T-100 Super Mustang, to be built by a collaboration between the American Avstar, Inc. and the Chinese Shenyang Aircraft Corporation.[4] A prototype powered by a General Electric J85 turbojet was reportedly flight-tested in the United States, however nothing further came of this project.
Operational history
In 1959, these aircraft served in the Air Training Command at Pensacola, Florida and used in a training program demonstration testing the feasibility of using a jet-powered trainer for primary flight training.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
By the end of 1960, the TT-1s were phased out of operations in the Naval Air Training Command because performance was deemed insufficient,[5] and sold as surplus.
Variants
- TT-1 Pinto
- Two-seat primary jet trainer aircraft.
- American Jet Industries T-610 Super Pinto
- Re-engined with Script error: No such module "convert". General Electric CJ610-6 turbojet.[1]
- McDonnell Model 182
- Proposed modification of a TT-1 for use as a testbed for McDonnell Aircraft Corporation's "spin jet" propulsion system. Proposed in 1961.[6]
- McDonnell Model 183
- Proposed modification of a TT-1 for use as a testbed for a VTOL installation of the "spin jet" propulsion system. Proposed alongside the Model 182 in 1961, the Model 183 would have used a redesigned wing.[6]
Operators
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Surviving aircraft
In December 2016, five of the TT-1 Pinto series still appeared on the U.S. civil register[7] (one with an expired certificate[8]), down from seven, four of them Super Pintos, in 2011.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
As of late 2015, one T-610 prototype was still preserved at the Philippine Air Force Museum.[9]
Specifications (TT-1)
See also
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Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
References
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- ↑ a b c Taylor 1971, p. 223.
- ↑ Field Flight International 16 October 1976, p. 1185.
- ↑ Flight International 1 March 1980, p. 680.
- ↑ Asian Defence Journal Issues 7-12, 1988; Page 110
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- ↑ FAA Registry for Temco TT-1 Pinto, retrieved 07 Dec 2016.
- ↑ FAA Registry for N4486L, retrieved 07 Dec 2016.
- ↑ 44233 at Manila - Ninoy Aquino International by Paul Chandler1 on netAirspace.comScript error: No such module "Unsubst".Template:Cbignore, retrieved 07 Dec 2016.
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Bibliography
- Dillon, Mike. "Will lovely loser become super winner?" Air Progress, Vol. 24, no. 3, March 1969.
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- Frankel, Mark. Temco TT-1 Pinto (Naval Fighters Nº72). Simi Valley, California: Ginter Books, 2007. Template:ISBN.
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- Taylor, John W. R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1971–72. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, 1971. Template:ISBN.
- Taylor, Michael J.H. Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation (Vol. 5). Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Educational Corporation, 1980. Template:ISBN.
External links
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