Air Tractor (a taildragger) might join USAF

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Air Tractor (a taildragger) might join USAF

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Just to make it a bit easier to find. Shift-click the link below:

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Hmm. Poor mans A10?
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Go to Photos, and look at the landing gear !
Check out those BRAKES !!!! 8O
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Of course, there is their additional advantage of their agricultural application ancestry. On their off days they could be used to apply "Roundup" to the local poppy fields.
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I recall something called Agent Organge 8O

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