On the other hand, I love to fool folks by asking them to identify this:
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Boy the F3H sure does foreshadow the F4.
There are always prototypes and R&D aircraft that never make production. I’ve worked with many secret aircraft that never made it past a few development prototypes. What becomes production is usually the best and should be celebrated for all the works of the prototypes before them.
I’m surprised the Martin P6M wasn’t mentioned. It was a jet-powered strategic bomber—with a flying boat hull. Developed for the Navy, it was designed to carry nuclear weapons to targets and perform take-offs from and make landings on the water.
I recognized several. The Tigercat, the Sea Dart, the Guppy and Super Guppy. A version of the Guppy or Super Guppy was based at an airport I worked at. It was used to ferry a Sikorsky CH-54 Tarhe around.
On the other hand, I love to fool folks by asking them to identify this:
Cool post. I actually remember most of these planes from the Power for Peace card series.
Well, I’ve heard of all of them, and I’m surely the only person posting on FR who actually saw am XF-91 in flight, and doing aerobatics at that. Grew up near Hanscom Field in Bedford, MA in the ‘50s.
The Sikorsky CH-37 Mojave looks familiar as I believe it is the one an Army aviator, standing beside one, said was under powered. He said they landed a few in the desert and due to the extreme heat they could not get enough lift for them to take flight. Had to wait until evening when it was cooler.
This thread is half-useless without pictures!
Well that explains that.
Remember in Goldeneye when James Bond shot and killed the pilot of an airplane that was on takeoff roll, then rode his motorcycle off the cliff at the end of the runway, "skydived" into the plane, got in the pilot's seat and saved it from crashing (and himself from dying)?
That was a Pilatus Porter, a plane it's almost impossible to pull the wings off of.