Outstanding aircraft types that didn't see combat
Ast56,please refer to my #11 ref the F4D Skyray....
Originally Posted by sycamore;11561 958
Ast56,please refer to my #11 ref the F4D Skyray....
Seems to depend on how you define it - level flight/dive/first flight/ first supersonic flight/first in service
I quoted Bill Gunston who's normally quite reliable.
Not a big worry 80 years on TBH
Perhaps the rather astonishing Westland Welkin?
I'm told that there was one at the Westland facility at RAF Merryfield after the war....along with a Hamilcar X.
I'm told that there was one at the Westland facility at RAF Merryfield after the war....along with a Hamilcar X.
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Oh how about FJ-3 or FJ-4/4B? The latter was the final and best evolution of the F-86 design philosophy. FJ-3Ms were on standby during the Lebanon Crisis and FJ-4/4Bs deployed to Taiwan but I can't recall any action for either.
Not really. We Brits were involved in various hostilities from the end of WW2 until today so most of our our combat types saw service worldwide.
I'm sure many from across the pond would see Korea and Vietnam in a different light without the Berlin, Cuba (missile and Bay of Pigs), Pueblo, Grenada, Libya and goodness knows how many other Crises even being considered. Plus the many PQ4M, U-2, RB-29 (and other) shootdowns whilst "not being at war".
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USAF F-104s saw limited combat in Vietnam and the Pakistan AF certainly used theirs against the Indian AF.
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several Russian types never saw war service IIRC