What the heck is a Super Pinto?

[claylemon]

My dad and I taxied up on this beautiful airplane last week in Addison. I have to thank the guy that came out of the hanger that told me what this thing was. This pic does not do this plane justice.


Clay

[claylemon]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Nice chrome tipped exhaust.

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Nice chrome tipped exhaust.

Hummn... sure doesn't look like any version of a Ford automobile that I've ever seen???

Ahh.. thank god for GOOGLE!

Quick search brought up These Results

Apparantly, an early jet trainer...

Very pretty machine..!!





Wayne

[claylemon]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Just don't bump it in the rear end. HA HA Believe or not, but the T-37(let me get my hearing protectors out) beat this plane into production.

It's registered as the Experimental Ezell EJ-1. Yes I looked into the cockpit.

[AirDOGGe]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Here's a great webpage all about that exciting bird (includes several photos)

SUPER PINTO...Your basic kick-butt airplane
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepTemcoPinto.html

[Randy Haskin]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

The American Jet Super Pinto was also offered to the Air Force as an air-to-mud "fighter", competing in an evaluation program for light strike aircraft called Pave COIN at Eglin AFB in 1971.

Incidentally, the original Piper PE-1 Enforcer (not the later, more famous, PA-48 Enforcer) also competed in this competition and is reported to have trounced the competition. Other aircraft evaluated included the OV-10 and OA-37, which were already in the USAF inventory.

Unfortunately, by the time Pave COIN was completed Vietnam was winding down and the need for a Skyraider replacement seemed less urgent, so none of the Pave COIN aircraft were purchased by the AF.

[Kilo Hotel]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Very cool ride. Does the nose gear retract, even with that huge wheel pant?

[Jay]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Nose gear retracts.
I think that is a deflector to keep water spray (maybe FOD too) from going in the engine inlet, if I remember correctly.

[tow-3]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

the reason that it is registered as an ezell ej-1 is that one has been re-engined by Nelson and crew out at the armadillo works at BKD. From what ive been told it doesnt go much faster but it sure has a amazing climb rate for a pinto.

[Unregistered]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Anyone rember the great airshow act that Dick Hunt out of Seattle
did at some of the Pacific Northwest and Canadian Airshows in his
Super Pinto?

[claylemon]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Dude told me that it is now running an engine out of a Lear 25.

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Dude told me that it is now running an engine out of a Lear 25.

I think I read somewhere, that engine puts out something like three times the thrust that the stocker did..

Can you say........

Express Elevator!

Nice lookin bird!

Wayne

[Randy Haskin]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Dude told me that it is now running an engine out of a Lear 25.

I believe that the original Super Pinto is engined with a GE J-85 engine, same as the T-38 (sans afterburner).

This one pictured may very well be different, though.

[AAFO_WSagar]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

I believe that the original Super Pinto is engined with a GE J-85 engine, same as the T-38 (sans afterburner).

This one pictured may very well be different, though.

Randy,

earlier in this thread, the link points to a story that's got this in it...

"Only 14 TT-1 Pintos were built and they used a US-built version of the French Turbomeca Mabore engine. We called it the J-69 and the Cessna T-37 used two of them. It put out about 930 pounds of thrust, was of the old centrifugal flow design, and was excellent for melting snow on runways and not much else. With only one of those engines, the Pinto had everything it could do to hop over tall alligators during its evaluation test flights in Pensacola."

(here's the link again SUPER PINTO...Your basic kick-butt airplane
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepTemcoPinto.html)

Is it right?

Wayne

[Randy Haskin]

Re: What the heck is a Super Pinto?

Is it right?

My understanding is this:

"Temco" Pinto = J69 powered

"American Jet" Super Pinto = J85 powered.