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anyone got any ideas?
cheers

747-200 with Shuttle attachment bits, and a large wooden propeller attached to an aeroplane?

The aircraft in the background is not a B747-200 but an ex Japan Airlines B747-100SR, now registered as N911NA.

Schweizer YO-3A

http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell...97-44128-1.jpg

Thanks for the correction. I really should not post after midnight.

cheers.....now i know.

The Thingymabob With The Wooden Paddle Props
 

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/sr...ies/thumbs.gif

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.

Web site,

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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?

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