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Post by Gene on Nov 18, 2016 1:47:36 GMT 9
Pat, I don't think anyone has heard of every experimental aircraft ever designed, built or flown. Even within the USA it is hard to see them all. It was the DoD policy to not assign a designation until the plane started manufacture. What were the numbers between the F-111 and F-117? And remember the F-4 was an F-110 before they changed the series from hundreds back to single digits. I remember that F-117 was originally the F-19 but number F-117 was assigned as part of secrecy. As for British experimental aircraft, various museums in UK house some of them. See following for listing of UK A/C since 1946 www.raf.mod.uk/history/Aircraftbetween1946andpresent.cfm
Lorin
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Post by pat perry on Dec 8, 2016 6:07:41 GMT 9
Just a reminder that Kenneth Taylor was the first CO of the 456th Fighter Squadron in the Pacific during WWII. I was in touch with his son (a BG of the same name) about getting his dad to come to a 456th FIS reunion but Ken was ill and died shortly after our reunion. A true Hero! Pat P.
On the morning of December 7, 1941, only two American fighter pilots were able to get airborne to fight the Japanese attackers.
Second Lieutenants Kenneth Marlar Taylor and George S. Welch took two Curtiss-Wright P-40B Warhawk fighters from a remote airfield at Haleiwa, on the northwestern side of the island of Oahu, and against overwhelming odds, each shot down four enemy airplanes: Welch shot down three Aichi D3A Type 99 “Val” dive bombers and one Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 (“Zero”) fighter. Taylor also shot down four Japanese airplanes.
Ken Taylor scored two more victories at Guadalcanal before wounds received in an air raid sent him back to the United States. He remained in the Air Force until he retired in 1971 with the rank of Brigadier General. He died in 2006.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/7-december-1941/
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Post by pat perry on Dec 16, 2016 10:49:55 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on Dec 17, 2016 1:53:55 GMT 9
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Post by Bullhunter on Dec 17, 2016 7:44:20 GMT 9
On this day during WWII the Battle of the Bulge started.
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Post by pat perry on Dec 17, 2016 23:58:51 GMT 9
17 December 1903, 10:35 a.m.
Orville Wright at the controls of the Flyer, just airborne on its first flight at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 17 December 1903. Wilbur Wright is running along to stabilize the wing.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/17-december-1903/
Thanks Orville and Wilbur! For starting the beginning of an industry that world forever change the world.
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Post by Gene on Dec 18, 2016 7:11:32 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Dec 27, 2016 0:28:33 GMT 9
www.thisdayinaviation.com/26-december-1956/ 60 Years ago today, 26 December 1956: Convair’s Chief Test Pilot, Richard Lowe Johnson (1917–2002,) made the first flight of the Convair F-106A-1-CO Delta Dart, U.S. Air Force serial number 56-451, at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California. Convair built 342 F-106 interceptors. 277 were F-106As and the remainder (65) were F-106B two-seat trainers.
Last three operational flights of the F-106 depart Atlantic City Airport, NJ for Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ June 1988
59-0043, 59-0045, 59-0149
A Classic 177th Fighter Wing News Story by channel 29, 1986
F-106: "Better Airplane Wings" circa 1990 NASA; Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composite Flaps (read the story under the video)
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Post by Jim on Dec 27, 2016 0:42:14 GMT 9
RE: Last operational sixes.......... These were among the original sixes delivered to the 27th FIS in 1960...........
Great videos.......
Even more touching for me is that I had direct contact many times with each of the birds..... I painted the tail flash on both 043 and 045.... Did QC inspections on all three (50 hr inspections were about a 2 day process), maintained the weight and balance records for all 3 and weighed 043 and 149 because of CG discrepancies. Later I was Periodic Insp Branch Chief and supervised the first flight control actuator removals for 300 hour periodic inspection requirements..... Another story, some day.... The Old Sarge 
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Post by Tom Dlugosh on Dec 27, 2016 3:21:02 GMT 9
Spent a little time on those birds myself.
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Post by Jim on Feb 15, 2017 5:47:12 GMT 9
Something I got from the WASPs. Who I believe you TEXICANs should be supporting their museum effort at Avenger Field, Sweetwater,Texas  
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Post by Gene on Apr 14, 2017 1:32:16 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on Apr 19, 2017 1:28:34 GMT 9
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Post by Gene on May 16, 2017 6:47:06 GMT 9
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Post by pat perry on Mar 1, 2018 4:15:12 GMT 9
Saw this old girl at Wright-Pat being restored. Had a fascinating tour of the restoration shop during the 2013 F-106 Reunion.
www.thisdayinaviation.com/8-june-1943/
So sad that vandals got to it while it was on display at Memphis in several different places. It was refurbished several times and I guess the USAF Museum system said let's bring her home. The restoration guys found all kinds of stuff through layers of paint removed. Signatures of hundreds of people who signed it during War Bond appearance tours. They completely rebuilt the gun turrets and everything inside the aircraft. She will finally look brand new when completed.
Pat P.
Update: The Memphis Belle goes on display in May 2018 after a 10 year restoration at the Museum of the USAF in Dayton www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195966/boeing-b-17f-memphis-belle/
They did a great job with the restoration.
Pat P.
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Post by LBer1568 on Mar 2, 2018 1:00:14 GMT 9
It has been here at WPAFB for 13 years. I saw it several different times while taking grandkids and friends to visit museum. It is also being shown in all it's restoration glory on anniversary of it's 25th Mission. I probably won't fight the crowds on Grand Opening, but look forward to seeing her back on display. Lorin |
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