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GTX said:
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FJ-4B Fury of VA-146 aboard either CV-61 Ranger from June 1958-July 1959 (trip from Brooklyn around Cape Horn to San Diego & a WestPac), CV-34 Oriskany May-December 1960 (WestPac), or CV 16 Lexington November 1961-May 1962 (WestPac).

Carrier Air Wing 14 aboard those carriers on those deployments carried the NK tail marking, and VA-146 with FJ-4Bs is listed for them then.

Deployments of USS RANGER (CV 61)

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Deployments of USS ORISKANY (CV 34)

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Deployments of USS LEXINGTON (CV 16)

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{Edit: the National Naval Aviation Museum Faceborg page says CV-61 Ranger - the sea state looks like Southern Ocean stuff to me.}

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B-50D-95-BO (48-096) converted to EB-50D as mothership for X-2 program. Assigned to NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station, Edwards AFB, CA.
On May 12, 1953, X-2 (46-675) exploded in belly of the B-50 mothership, X-2 was dropped into Lake Ontario, and mothership limped back to Niagara Falls Airport, but never flew again.


 
SaparotRob said:
Valkyriesky?
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Yeah, only in a 1:2 scale

PS. Unlike the Valkyrie this aircraft had every chance of being a combat aircraft rather than a technology demonstrator, and with a cruising speed of almost M=3. It was killed by the intrigues of Tupolev, who promised a "budget" modification of the Tu-22, which in fact was a completely new design and finally cost the Soviets more than the T-4.
 
If I recall, the T-4 never reached a speed of Mach 3, Mach 1.2 was the fastest it had ever flown. The T-4 flew only 10 times and half of those flights were flown with the undercarriage fully extended.
 
Ovod said:
If I recall, the T-4 never reached a speed of Mach 3, Mach 1.2 was the fastest it had ever flown. The T-4 flew only 10 times and half of those flights were flown with the undercarriage fully extended.
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Absolutely correct. Only 9 flights were made, but they were very successful, the airplane behaved perfectly at transonic speed, no serious problems were noted, all the declared characteristics of stability and controllability were confirmed. The titanium parts of the structure showed themselves perfectly, no problems with welds and corrosion after five years after assembly were not found. For the Soviet aircraft industry of that time, this was very unusual and clearly indicated a high degree of perfection of the design.
 
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