Pictures of Cold War aircraft. (14 Viewers)

[Frog]

What is that?

Temco TT1 Pinto, US Navy primary jet trainer. The engine is licenced build from a french model.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Temco TT1 Pinto, US Navy primary jet trainer. The engine is licenced build from a french model.

Was it as bad as the Ford Pinto?

 

[cammerjeff]

I have no Idea if they where bad or not, but they only made 15 examples, there was a very incomplete example in the back of one of the old seaplane hangars at NAS Pensacola in the late 1970's. I have no idea what happened to it. Probably scrapped. If I remember correctly it had no engine, instruments, or seats in it at the time. One of the Older Aviators told me he considered it very underpowered, and would not want to operate one from a field with a higher elevation than Pensacola's 30 feet above sea level. So that is not a ringing endorsement of the type IMO.

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Internet.

 

[cammerjeff]

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The source: the Internet.

How many tons of illegal drugs do you think are in that Douglas Product?

 

[PFVA63]

Temco TT1 Pinto, US Navy primary jet trainer. The engine is licenced build from a french model.

Which French Model

 

[Donivanp]

Which French Model

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It's the Jeana Lola-Bridgeata 115

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Internet.

 

[Wurger]

 

[GTX]

 

[SaparotRob]

I've never seen that many in one shot before.

 

[MIflyer]

Incredibly, yet ANOTHER T-33A on a pole crash! A Cessna 340 landing at Muscogee OK ran out of gas and hit a T-33A on a pole 3300 Ft off the runway. No apparent fatalities, although the T-33A crew members have yet to be located.

 

[Donivanp]

Incredibly, yet ANOTHER T-33A on a pole crash! A Cessna 340 landing at Muscogee OK ran out of gas and hit a T-33A on a pole 3300 Ft off the runway. No apparent fatalities, although the T-33A crew members have yet to be located.

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Any emergency beacons heard? Did their seats fire?

 

[MIflyer]

How many tons of illegal drugs do you think are in that Douglas Product?

Back around 1975 a C-54 landed at the closed Clinton-Sherman AFB in western OK. The airfield was no longer in operation but some of the buildings and housing had been leased to oil field companies. The C-54 stopped and the crew jumped out and ran like hell.

The C-54 had been used in drug smuggling and investigation showed it owner was the US Govt. They deliberately leased that C-54 through an intermediary to known drug smugglers so they could track it. Presumably they had the airplane "bugged" to aid in tracking.

 

[MIflyer]

Any emergency beacons heard? Did their seats fire?

Unknown at present. The T-33A was ALSO found to be out of fuel.

The crew of this one is missing as well, but probably went to the Dairy Queen across the street.

 

[MIflyer]

I have no Idea if they where bad or not, but they only made 15 examples,

Later there was an attempt to revive the design with a more powerful engine and larger intakes.

 

[Snowman]

The source: the Airliners.net, the Internet.

 

[GTX]

 

[herman1rg]

Unknown at present. The T-33A was ALSO found to be out of fuel.

The crew of this one is missing as well, but probably went to the Dairy Queen across the street.

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I expect the other crewman was "Missing, Presumed Fed"



I've got my coat

 

[Snowman]

The source: the USAF.