Pictures of Cold War aircraft.

[Sabrejet]

The Trident was French.

Oh......kay.....?

 

[Sabrejet]

While we're on "French/esoteric", the ONERA Deltaviex: I've seen this afew times and each time it's a little more complete. It did fly - and it's TINY!!!

 

[special ed]

Only Wondering which of "our" astronauts had stick time in a French experimental.

 

[Sabrejet]

Only Wondering which of "our" astronauts had stick time in a French experimental.

Ah gotcha. I'm not sure, but it does ring a bell. Unless it was another French experimental type?

 

[GTX]

Keeping to a theme:

 

[Sabrejet]

Keeping to a theme:

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Stacked engines too: only the EE Lightning (IIRC) shares the distinction.

 

[Frog]

Sud-Est SE.2410 Grognard ground attack prototype 1950 - 1952 ; two examples propelled by two R&R Nene.
Lost to the Sud-Est Vautour II.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[MIflyer]

What may have been: An early iteration of Boeing's Model 818 proposal to fulfil the TFX program - that went on to become the F-111.

Boeing design had about 20% compatibility between the USAF and USN versions of the TFX. The GD design has about 80% compatibility and that was a major factor in its selection. Of course the USN version was cancelled so that proved to be a useless feature that had a significant negative impact on the USAF version.

 

[MIflyer]

Some Davis Monthan AFB shots.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

So much hardware put out to grass!

 

[SaparotRob]

I guess the good stuff has been picked clean years ago. Oh, to be able to afford doing up an F-80 right.

 

[MIflyer]

Oh, to be able to afford doing up an F-80 right.

I was at an airshow at Vance AFB and a young man was talking to the pilot who had flown in a T-33A. They had found an F-80 somewhere and traded an air conditioner for a J-33 engine. And a friend of mine owned an F-80 for several years. Back in the early 70's he went over to a junkyard in SW FL to see about buying some T-33's and there was rather forlorn looking F-80 there and he bought it too. Sold them for a lot more than he paid for them years later.

Here is a T-33A I like to visit when I drive up to see my brother in GA.

 

[BiffF15]

I was at an airshow at Vance AFB and a young man was talking to the pilot who had flown in a T-33A. They had found an F-80 somewhere and traded an air conditioner for a J-33 engine. And a friend of mine owned an F-80 for several years. Back in the early 70's he went over to a junkyard in SW FL to see about buying some T-33's and there was rather forlorn looking F-80 there and he bought it too. Sold them for a lot more than he paid for them years later.

Here is a T-33A I like to visit when I drive up to see my brother in GA.

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What year was the show at Vance? I did pilot training there.

 

[MIflyer]

And look what a guy in Ohio had on his farm. Same place the XP-82 came from. Most of the stuff he had there he got for free.

 

[MIflyer]

What year was the show at Vance? I did pilot training there.

Would have been 1975 to 1977. I was at Tinker AFB. I went on a search mission for the civilian head of maintenance at Vance when he disappeared in his biplane homebuilt on the way to a fly in NM or AZ.

 

[MIflyer]

Read recently that when they sent an F-86D to overhaul they yanked the radar and replaced the radome with a metal one. So those pictures of F-86D's with metal noses may not be all that odd after all.

 

[Donivanp]

And look what a guy in Ohio had on his farm. Same place the XP-82 came from. Most of the stuff he had there he got for free.

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Walter Soplata, everything from a B-36 down. Listed with the Smithsonian.

The Soplata Airplane Sanctuary

Of the 20 stray aircraft his father rescued, the author remembers that first bomber best

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[GreenKnight121]

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SO.9000 Trident I, with 2 Turbomeca Marboré II turbojets & one 3-chamber SEPR 481 rocket engine.

 

[GreenKnight121]

Yep:

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SO.9050 Trident II with two Dassault MD.30 Viper turbojets and a two-chamber SEPR 631 rocket engine.