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Tupperware Pilot
23rd Feb 2010, 18:03
Wood Grain on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/rightstuffphotography/4022610451/in/set-72157622487604773/)
anyone got any ideas?
cheers
747-200 with Shuttle attachment bits, and a large wooden propeller attached to an aeroplane?
Runaround Valve
24th Feb 2010, 08:17
The aircraft in the background is not a B747-200 but an ex Japan Airlines B747-100SR, now registered as N911NA.
treadigraph
24th Feb 2010, 08:17
Schweizer YO-3A
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/images/yo-3a-EC97-44128-1.jpg
The aircraft in the background is not a B747-200 but an ex Japan Airlines B747-100SR, now registered as N911NA
Thanks for the correction. I really should not post after midnight.
Tupperware Pilot
24th Feb 2010, 16:31
cheers.....now i know.
obnoxious
25th Feb 2010, 20:13
Is a Lockheed YO-3A NASA 718 was developed to provide a quiet reconnaissance airplane for night penetration missions at very low altitude. Its Air Force serial was 69-18010. http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/src:www.pprune.org/get/images/smilies/thumbs.gif
treadigraph
26th Feb 2010, 07:53
Whoops, I'd forgotten about the Lockheed bit. The airframe is based on the Schweizer 2-32.
Been having a look at Schweizer's website, they have produced several other glider based reconnaissance aircraft including the twin boom RU-38, a type I'd never heard of before.
Karl Bamforth
26th Feb 2010, 08:20
Web site,
YO-3A (http://www.yo-3a.com/)
Sealight007
27th Feb 2010, 00:31
Minor correction: Not Air Force YO-3A, but Army-Lockheed YO-3A. The Air Force was going to participate for 6 months in Vietnam with the YO-3As but their pilots crashed YO-3A 69-18009 before deployment to Vietnam.
I am giving a presentation at Flabob, EAA, Design group 2 on how they silenced the YO-3A (9 YO-3As went to Vietnam and operated 800-1500 feet for 14 months and never shot down, never took a round. Early stealth.)
I would like to title my presentation
The Thingymabob With The Wooden Paddle Props
Would you mind me using this?
Webmaster YO-3A (http://www.yo-3a.com)