Where old planes go when they "die"

[Cyclic]

Aha! Another NA museum denizen! The F3H Demon, granddaddy to the F-4 Phantom.

Edit: I believe Ryoukai's is a Grumman Ag-Cat. They had one of those buzzing around Monroeville when I flew there in Primary.

Damn!...that was too quick, the F3 usually gets most people, but I think I'll disagree on the Ag Cat 'cause it's a bi-plane, I think it's an Air Tractor modified as a tandem seat for military sales.

 

[A4sForever]

Holy crap!!..I'm away for one day and there's like 5 more pages of posts!
Anyway...my goodness..I had bet that the VP guys would get the T-29 homebase in a snap...A4 was close but here's another hint...if you VP guys don't get it on this one you need to buy all of us a beer!!!!

Sounds/looks like Texas --- Corpus Christi ???

 

[Cyclic]

Sounds/looks like Texas --- Corpus Christi ???

A T-29 from VT-29 (main clue from the original photo) at NAS Corpus Christi, advanced training for future Neptune drivers. Yep that's the T-heads on the pic and Downtown on the ri...oh wait...there is no Downtown there!

Interesting thing is that all those aircraft were tranfered from the USAF, notice that they have no BUNO but Air Force serial #'s, 13 USAF T-29B's are listed to have been converted into VT-29B's and loaned to the Navy in the early 60's...ha ha VT-29B assigned to VT-29 squadron...wander how the hell that came to.
Well now you know all NASCC's squadrons in the early 60's, VT-28 S-2 Trackers, VT-29 VT-29B and ????, VT-30 A4D Skyraiders, VT-31....I'll leave that to the VP guys..besides this is their turf.

By the way, the other aircraft VT-29 was this one...What is it???

BTW, If you're thinking it's a DC-3....you're wrong,super close but wrong, this is a DC-3 vv

 

[Godspeed]

Based on what the windshield looks like, the angle of the windshield, and how few instruments there are I am going to hazard a guess... X-1?

Indeed.... It is the Bell X-1. Good work. :-D

 

[navyao]

Chic's dig Tomcats.

 

[Ryoukai]

Damn!...that was too quick, the F3 usually gets most people, but I think I'll disagree on the Ag Cat 'cause it's a bi-plane, I think it's an Air Tractor modified as a tandem seat for military sales.

Those do look very close to it, but neither of you will enjoy this fine see-gar.

Hint: It shares its name with a notable, semi-recent, Naval Aircraft.

 

[Super18Ordie]

BTW, If you're thinking it's a DC-3....you're wrong,super close but wrong, this is a DC-3 vv

R4-D

 

[wink]

What, no takers? Here is another picture in Navy livery.

 

[Gatordev]

Retread, I'm just impressed by your avatar. Anyone who knows the value of Joe Don Baker is tops.

 

[Cyclic]

What, no takers? Here is another picture in Navy livery.

Ahh! ok that pic kicked the memory cells, I remember a little, I have a book somewhere where it talked about that, I think the Navy used it for a short time but it was awful, then it talked about the North American contract for the T-2 which was originally single engine, which was better but still awful. Curiuos thing was that the design for both looked very similar but I don't think it was North American. I'm not sure but I think it was named T-1.

 

[Cyclic]

You know...someone mentioned the MI-6 earlier...I flew on an MI-8 last fall in Croatia...glad I made it on the deck safely...

Well, in reality if all american helos were as sturdy and reliable as the Mi-8 the savings in maintenence and manpower would allow us to have glass cockpit in the the whole Navy helo inventory!!!!!


Uh oh....threadjack...ok, back to old Navy aircraft... :icon_clos

 

[Ryoukai]

^ But why does it look like it's preggo? Aircraft aren't supposed to look like that.

 

[wink]

Ahh! ok that pic kicked the memory cells, I remember a little, I have a book somewhere where it talked about that, I think the Navy used it for a short time but it was awful, then it talked about the North American contract for the T-2 which was originally single engine, which was better but still awful. Curiuos thing was that the design for both looked very similar but I don't think it was North American. I'm not sure but I think it was named T-1.

Good one. It was a TEMCO product, TT-1 Pinto Originally a USAF contract, they rejected it early on. The Navy considered it as a primary trainer. Only a few built. Never made it to the VTs because it was a pig and the Navy didn't buy into the jet primary trainer like the AF did. USAF went with the tweet and the Navy with T-34 and T-2. A couple remain in civilian hands. I know a guy that had one with a larger engine that was pretty hot. Called it the Super Pinto.

 

[Cyclic]

R4-D

Correct R4-D/DC-3/C-47....and the tall tail one??

 

[nfo2b]

Uh oh....threadjack...ok, back to old Navy aircraft... :icon_clos

Yeah. How dare you threadjack the longest (and greatest, IMHO) threadjack in the history of AirWarriors. I think in the 10+ pages of posts that make up this thread, there are all of about 6 or so related to the original topic. But if you're gonna get threadjacked, the best you can hope for is a fun one like this has turned out to be!