Talk:Grumman OV-1 Mohawk/Archive 1

Specs as stated for OV-1D are seemingly incorrect.
From C.E.Sasser. Previously OV-1 Mohawk Crew chief, SP/5, US Army, 131st Aviation Co (SAC) MOS 67H20.

Though it has been a few years, I served these birds for 9 years (1968 to 1977)in all capacities from PM maintenance to Ejection seat Service and Modification.

The one thing that prominently jumps out at me in this article is the engine model and shaft horsepower reported.

To the best of my memory the OV-1D was powered by the Lycoming T53-L-701 Powerplant producing an advertised shaft horsepower of 1400. The mentioned T53-L-7 was used in the shorter winged OV-1A Camera/Gun platform and the OV-1B SLAR configured aircraft as well as most of the OV-1C, I-R birds. In addition if I am not mistaken, a few of the C model aircraft were outfitted with the early T53-L-701 engines and designated "Super-C"

Thank you for allowing this correction.

Sincerely, C.E. Sasser


 * I changed the engine for OV-1D according to this. --MarsRover 08:10, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

"Whispering Death"
I'm always skeptical of alleged nicknames like this given to US planes by the enemy. Yeah yeah, the enemy finds us scary and cool. Unless we can find a citation for it, I think we should drop it. As this site says, that nickname sounds like marketing hype. SkipSmith (talk) 06:26, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I came to post talk about the same thing. I have found whispering and whistling death applied here to at least 6 planes including the P-38 and F-111. It has been attributed to Japanese, Germans, VC, NVA, and more. Always listing as "by certain enemies" but never with a good citation from anyone who has ever actually heard it call it that or someone who actually called it that. In this articles case the "citation" is just someone listing it as a nickname with no mention of why. Why would this name be attached to the OV-1 instead of the O-2 or better the OV-10 which was much more likely to carry arms. I highly doubt in the world of radar a plane thats made to loiter for 2 hours is going to sneak up on anyone.

Be Bold In Edits (talk) 18:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree with the author of Whispering Death. I flew the Mohawk in VN and my guess is that the name was GI thing related to armed Mohawks compared to the other gunships that Army Aviation had over there: that being a armed Huey or a Cobra gunship. The helicopter gunships were very noisy and could be heard a long ways away. My opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OV-1Guy (talk • contribs) 19:06, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Static Display
There is an additional example on static display at Dobbins ARB in Marietta, GA north of Atlanta. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.127.15.38 (talk) 21:19, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

The New Jersey Aviation Hall of Fame has an OV-1 on static display, but is not listed. http://www.njahof.org/exhibits.htm I don't know if that's enough documentation and I don't want to mess up the main article, so I'll leave it to an experienced wiki user. 72.76.203.102 (talk) 21:31, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Chief Auto Feather
Just a bit of Mohawk history that I don't see mentioned anywhere. The Mascot for the OV-1 Mohawk was known as "Chief Auto Feather" (a feature of the Hamilton Standard Propeller system). His as well as the OV-1'S birthday is celebrated as 14 April 1959.

Spc 4 67H10Q2B7 87-96 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sir wolf2001 (talk • contribs) 00:30, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Other users
The article only provides info about use by the OV-1 by the US Army. Agree that it may have been the most important user, however other users (Israel, Argentina) should also have some info in this article. I'll expand with use by Argentine Army Aviation; in a first stage I'm adding the sources that I'll use to expand the article, and finally will edit the article with appropriate citations. Regards, DPdH (talk) 07:30, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm still working on it, based on the sources I've already collected. Regards, DPdH (talk) 02:36, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 16:48, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

New display of OV-1 at an art school.
I don't know how to edit but heres an article describing the display http://scpbc.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2017/08/15/vietnam-era-plane-being-towed-to-g-star-school-on-wednesday/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:582:8601:218:C27:49E4:6108:B90C (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2017 (UTC)

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Relation to the E-2 Hawkeye?
I don't have any books on the OV-1 or E-2 that might answer this, but is its design related to the E-2A Hawkeye? Both were developed by Grumman around the same time with the E2A looking like a scaled up version of the OV-1. If anyone has any information confirming this it might be an interesting addition to both pages. regards Mztourist (talk) 10:29, 30 July 2019 (UTC)