MReyn24050.
Thank you, Sir, for your comments. I was only dipping my toes into the water. I'm actually just amazed by the knowhow you gentlemen share and am prepared just to stand back in awe.(I'm also a bit of a nerd when it comes to posting pictures.) Please do not allow me to interfere with the party. KRgds, Sleeve. :ok: |
Sleeve Wing
Please do not stand back in awe come in an join the party. As you will have seen this thread has been running for some six months and some 260+ cockpits have been presented to date including the F106A. Should you like a copy of a spreadsheet listing those already presented please PM me. Should WUB confirm it to be the F106B then, anyone, please feel free to post a new challenge. Mel |
It's a QF 106, well done Sleeve
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List of aircraft types presented in this thread so far
Sleeve, welcome to the thread. Don't be shy - join the fun! |
wub
You say that the aircraft was a QF106. A search on Google produced the following information regarding the QF 106. "Following the retirement of the last operational F106A Delta Dart in 1988, some 277 single seat (F106A) and 63 two seat versions (F106B) were converted into remotely targetable drones were converted to QF106 aerial target drones under the 'Pacer Six' Program, with most being expended by the 82 ATRS at Tyndall AFB (Florida). In the course of active operations QF106 drone ops, which extended to January of 1998, there were several flyable survivors which were able to return to AMARC for storage (D-MAFB, AZ). There were also a few non-flying airframes left on the Tyndall ramp at the end of the 'Pacer Six' Program (7 aircraft), as well, and originally they were parked in that part of the Tyndall AFB ramp known as the 'Swamp' (although in unflyable condition). Purchase of these remaining airframes was subsequently negotiated by a private aviation enterprise based in Texas (David Tokoff's GRECO-AIR in El Paso) and a tentative deal was struck with DRMS to sell the aircraft for purposes of restoring them as non-flying, museum-display grade aircraft. One of these aircraft was reportedly ear-marked for restoration as a fully operational flying specimen, although it appears that perhaps two of them may have been fully restored at this time for flight (including a two-seat B model); however, due to the fact that stringent 'de-mil' requirements for combat aircraft require cutting the airframe structural members to render them incapable of further flight applications, this stalled the whole purchase package for some time. As of 2 Mar 04, the non-flying survivors have all been trucked from the Tyndall ramp and shipped to GRECO-AIR's El Paso base of operations, where most of them are awaiting restoration". I would be interested to know if this particular aircraft was in fact a converted F106B. Mel |
No challenges? Well here is an easy one to keep the thread going.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...kpitquiz19.jpg |
Looks like a Hawker Sea Hawk from here?
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Mel,
I would be interested to know if this particular aircraft was in fact a converted F106B. |
682al
You are correct Sir. You have control cringe Thanks for the link. Looking at the adjacent photograph showing the forward portion of the cockpit visor I can now see that it was a F106A. Mel |
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Achtung! Spitfire?
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Leider nicht, Herr Vub! :D
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Ach! Scheiße :confused:
Hurricane then |
nor a Hurricane.
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I will go for a Fairey Fulmar or perhaps an early Firefly Mk.
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Not from the Fairey stable...
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I will go off on a complete tangent, even though the compass makes me think it is British, and say Junkers JU87 Stuka.
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Sorry MReyn24050, you are indeed on a tangent. :D
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Boulton-Paul Defiant?????
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correct gas path, over to you!
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