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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 ?
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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.
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Originally Posted by Genghis the Engineer
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 ?
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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.
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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.
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.
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