It beat flying to McClellan for a phase inspection.
Another cool airplane that was destroyed. Photo and airframe history: Aerial Visuals - Airframe Dossier - Lockheed F-5G-6-LO Lightning, s/n 504 FAHo, c/n 422-7965, c/r N6961 Image Unavailable, Please Login
From one end of the spectrum to the other, a not so cool airplane. Known to airline people as the Irish Concord Only the SD330 was uglier. Simmons Airlines Shorts SD3-60 N369MQ (msn SH.3654… - Bruce Drum (AirlinersGallery.com) Photo Keywords: Tom Tanner Image Unavailable, Please Login
A whole bunch of cool airplanes. Only 15 years separate!! Now it takes 15 years to get one tested and in service Image Unavailable, Please Login
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Found this shot a few years ago of the Caroline Mars at the Chicago Navy airshow in 1948. That is the Adler Planetarium in the background. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Some terrific photos in this group. Thanks to all for sharing. Here's one from my files that is not quite what it appears to be! Image Unavailable, Please Login !
I wrote a definitive history of the Lockheed SR-71 and its predecessors (A-12, F-12, D-21) for Lockheed a number of years ago. Since then much new material now has surfaced on the General Dynamics Fish and Kingfish competitors. One of these days, if any of you are interested in seeing some images from those files, let me know. The Fish would have been faster than the SR-71 by a full Mach number, but it was a much more complicated aircraft from an operational perspective.
Here are several images depicting both the General Dynamics Fish and Kingfish in their penultimate configurations. The upside-down view of Kingfish depicts the slightly bigger than half-scale RCS test specimen which would have been pole-mounted for radar signature studies. The artist rendering depicts the Fish on final with auxiliary engines extended post-mission. A later iteration of Fish that was seriously studied called for a cruising speed in excess of Mach 9. In service, Fish was to be capable of cruising at Mach 4.0. Kingfish would have cruised at Mach 3.2. Fish was to be ramjet powered; Kingfish would have been powered by P&W JT11D (J58) just like the SR-71. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Luftwaffe Pilot Hans Meyer (5 victories) reunited with an old friend. (Photo- Military Aviation Museum) Image Unavailable, Please Login
FWIW: "German day and night fighter pilots claimed roughly 70,000 aerial victories during World War II, over 25,000 British or American and over 45,000 Soviet aircraft. 103 German fighter pilots each shot down 100 or more enemy aircraft, for a total of approximately 15,400 victories." (Top American Ace...Richard Bong, 40 Japanese aircraft)
