https://youtu.be/MpPSPQq7oas
Interesting. How would such an aircraft be better than a surveilance drone? Also were the WB57 rewinged regular planes or purpose built in that configuration?
They were built by Martin as variants; different wings, different engines, no armament or bomb bay. Only a couple dozen or so of the 400 or so.
Swedes fit snow skis to theirs. F-15's at Elemendorf used to be fitted with EDO floats back in the 90's.
NASA was flying WB-57s for atmospheric sampling and some special multi/hyper spectral payload work for the overhead mafia
C-17, A-10's and C-130 operating off a dry lake bed. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_A1Vv4ZRQo[/ame] Note the amount of dirt coming off the mains on the C-17 on take off.