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sw614
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by greywolfghost:
The bubble canopy tells you that -

B-47



In the early seventies there was a B-47 that operated out of NAS Pt. Mugu, Ca. Yes,a Naval Air Station. i think the missile center used to launch or track drones. I'm not sure. One thing for sure; that beast used the entire runway to get off the deck. Whenever that bad boy took off I stopped what I was doing to watch. Every time i half expected it to go off the end of the runway and into the Pacific Ocean. Never happened. They didn't have jato though. Or is that rato...

"The bubble canopy tells you that -"

B-47 or, YB-52! Cool




What an awesome sight![/QUOTE


That is a YB-52......* engines


Is trhere something wrong with that pic? The cockpit doesn't look like a YB-52 or the XB-52 canopy and what is that on the fuselage behind the wing? Or is it my eyesight?
 
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SW614,

The pic has been photoshopped lol. They edited out the canopy of an early B-52A and the gun turret as well.
 
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PD, Thanks fer the heads up! Big Grin


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SW614,

The pic has been photoshopped lol. They edited out the canopy of an early B-52A and the gun turret as well.


Naw, he's right...the first YB-52 proto-types had the B-47 canopy, but then Boeing went to the side-by-side flight deck, but the earlier picture up there with kids is definitely a B-47. B-52s are so much bigger than B-47s, there is really not much comparison. And the B-52's hull is square in cross-section, not round/tubular - -


YB-52



Note the tubular hull that says 100% B-47



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Grey,

I said the pic above was photoshopped because it has neither the inline B-47 style canopy of the YB-52, nor the side-by-side canopy of production B-52's.

If you magnify the picture, you can see that it looks like the plane has an open cockpit, and the gun turret on the dorsal area looks a lot like the ones on WWI bombers like the Vimy.

In fact, I have only found one place with that photo, and it appears to be a joke.
 
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Could be - -

My eyes aren't good enough to make it out - -

Here's a weird one.



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Five engines? what is the manufacturer of the plane?


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That looks like a B-17C.
 
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The pic has been photoshopped lol. They edited out the canopy of an early B-52A and the gun turret as well.


Thought so. I worked -52s for a long time and never saw a gun turret on the backbone.
 
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That looks like a B-17C.


Yes, it does. With a P-47 nose cowl, engine, and prop added for effect. Cool
 
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Grey,

I said the pic above was photoshopped because it has neither the inline B-47 style canopy of the YB-52, nor the side-by-side canopy of production B-52's.

If you magnify the picture, you can see that it looks like the plane has an open cockpit, and the gun turret on the dorsal area looks a lot like the ones on WWI bombers like the Vimy.

In fact, I have only found one place with that photo, and it appears to be a joke.


My picture PD? or the other one that looks like a B-52?


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Could be - -

My eyes aren't good enough to make it out - -

Here's a weird one.



It's actually a B-17 being used as a test-bed. The motor is probably one for not the B-29, but the B-50 Superfortress - -



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That looks like a B-17C.


Yes, it does. With a P-47 nose cowl, engine, and prop added for effect. Cool


I was thinking of a Corsair, but the P-47 gear would do the same job.
 
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My eyes aren't good enough to make it out - -

Here's a weird one.



It's actually a B-17 being used as a test-bed. The motor is probably one for not the B-29, but the B-50 Superfortress - -



You may be on to something there, GWG. It does look just like you described.
 
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Nothing like a timeless classic Cool

 
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Bump for a thread too good to let it fade into oblivion Beer
 
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This is an Areonica 7-FC The one I flew had the nose wheel done away with and a Scott tail wheel added. Turning the mains around worked out well just as doing the same thing to a Tripacer makes it very much like a Colt.

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How come I pressed "One for English" and still can't understand a word the dude is saying?
 
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I would have thought on something that size that the tricycle undercarriage would have been easier to land on and maintain.
 
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I'm sure most everyone here has read all about the airliner that was forced to ditch in the Hudson River due to a collision with birds.

As a retired aeronautical engineer I've been working to develop an effective counter measure. I think I've found it.



How come I pressed "One for English" and still can't understand a word the dude is saying?
 
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This is just too cool for words!

"http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a123/Samualclemmons/?action=view¤t=F_35B_BF_1FirstFlight.flv"


How come I pressed "One for English" and still can't understand a word the dude is saying?
 
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