Tom, As much fun as the c model was it was made obsolete by big guns, Heatseeking missiles and the cobra. but remember , the first cobra was just a c model they fed diet pills to to skinny it down, dropped off the back seaters and used that weight savings for fuel and ammo. it took a couple of years to learn to fight correctly with it.
I flew all models of the army cobra and all models of the marine and Iranian cobras till the W model came along. by then I waz a civilian and an enjinir doing guns then cockpits. I saw the armament grow from mini guns and rockets to 20mm cannons, anti tank misiles, anti aircraft missiles etc. and it became the modern stuka.
BT