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Rick Storm
13th Feb 2006, 19:57
Ok try this one.................
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b9/dazdaz1/Q.jpg
OldAg84
13th Feb 2006, 20:15
F-100D Super Sabre
Kieron Kirk
13th Feb 2006, 20:19
F-100F. 20th TFW Wethersfield ? 1960's.
Genghis the Engineer
13th Feb 2006, 20:21
Probably an F100D super-sabre, in a regular USAF squadron (not ANG), fitted with a pair of 275 gallon drop-tanks. The photograph was probably taken 1960ish.
What I don't quite understand is why it's apparently wearing a registration that was allocated to a Liberator GR.5 passed to the RAF, which became BZ860 in 1946 ?
G
Rick Storm
13th Feb 2006, 20:25
Well done guys, but what's the diff between the 100D and the F? I don't know. I'll let you guys post on that one.
I'm going USSR for my next photos.
Best wishes
Rick
Kieron Kirk
13th Feb 2006, 20:34
56-3883 F-100 F-10-NA appears to have the same s/n as B-24D-10-CF 42-63883.
Kieron Kirk
13th Feb 2006, 20:36
F-100 D is a single seat a/c but the F-100 F is a twin seat, note the longer cockpit canopy.
Kieron Kirk
13th Feb 2006, 20:42
Any thoughts about the other a/c ? C-54, B-66 and a real rare bird, TF-102 A.
A vivid reminder of "Armed Forces Days" in the 1960's, no people barriers and not too many people either!
Wethersfield, Essex, early 1960's.
PaperTiger
13th Feb 2006, 21:21
What I don't quite understand is why it's apparently wearing a registration that was allocated to a Liberator GR.5 passed to the RAF, which became BZ860 in 1946 ?It isn't. The B24 was 42-63883 and the F100 was 56-3883, where the prefix is the budget year in which the contract was signed. The USAF never displays the entire serial and in the rare cases where this would result in two identically serialled aircraft, a 0- prefix is added. If the F100 was still with us it would carry the serial 0-3883 or 0-63883 or even 0-563883 to make it unique.
Explained here (http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/usafserials.html) if you're interested or having trouble sleeping :cool:
Genghis the Engineer
13th Feb 2006, 21:23
It isn't. The B24 was 42-63883 and the F100 was 56-3883, where the prefix is the budget year in which the contract was signed. The USAF never displays the entire serial and in the rare cases where this would result in two identically serialled aircraft, a 0- prefix is added. If the F100 was still with us it would carry the serial 0-3883 or 0-63883 or even 0-563883 to make it unique.
Explained here (http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/usafserials.html) if you're interested or having trouble sleeping :cool:
I see, thanks - I consider myself educated.
G
Kieron Kirk
15th Feb 2006, 20:44
Wethersfield 19th May 1962.
Upon further consideration the Delta Dagger seems more likely to be a standard "cooking" variety, an F-102A.
The B-66 came from 10TRW, Alconbury, Bruntingthorpe or Chelveston. 1TRS/30TRS were based at Alconbury, 19TRS at Bruntingthorpe and 42TRS at Chelveston.