Comments by "Gort" (@gort8203) on "Vultee/Convair XA-41; The Right Aircraft for the Wrong War?" video.

  1. "They considered the two-seat dive bomber too cumbersome, slow, and quite frankly a bit of a one trick pony." And they were right. I'm glad they came to this conclusion soon enough to not expend a lot of resources on these aircraft.
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  2. The USAAF certainly did exist. The U.S. Army Air Corps was the Army's aviation service from 1926 to 20 June 1941. The Air Corps became a subordinate element of the newly created U.S. Army Air Forces on 20 June 1941, and was abolished as an administrative organization on 9 March 1942. USAAF then remained in place until the U.S. Air Force was created as a separate service in Sept 1947.
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  3. It was not really viable in the last century. It was conceived to replace the A-1, yet the A-1 had already become vulnerable over Vietnam. The wisdom of procuring another slow mover was questionable, but it was necessary to win the funding wars with Congress and the Army. This channel believes the myth that in Vietnam jets were bad at close air support. Not really. Marine Corps Air exists to provide CAS, and they have been doing it with supersonic jets since Vietnam without asking for a slow mover.
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