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Came across some old photos on a old drive,

Any guesses ?

No guesses, but these are awesome.

CALTECH wrote:Came across some old photos on a old drive,

So this is the Boeing Skyfox from Airwolf?

Lucas wrote:

CALTECH wrote:Came across some old photos on a old drive,

So this is the Boeing Skyfox from Airwolf?

Yes, a Lockheed T-33 proposed upgrade that was used for the Airwolf tv series.

I love photos like these. When I was a kid, I used to check out old books on airliners and such, mostly from the 60s and 70s. I was fascinated by the facts and figures.

I still remember cutting out an advertisement for a Boeing 707 from an old National Geographic magazine that my family had. It discussed how in ONE HOUR you could be 600 miles away.

A lot of me wishes that I could have experienced that era.

Lucas wrote:I love photos like these. When I was a kid, I used to check out old books on airliners and such, mostly from the 60s and 70s. I was fascinated by the facts and figures.

I still remember cutting out an advertisement for a Boeing 707 from an old National Geographic magazine that my family had. It discussed how in ONE HOUR you could be 600 miles away.

A lot of me wishes that I could have experienced that era.

I remember flying 707s to Europe, russian airliners in Europe, loved the old prop jobs. Believe I even flew on a Brittania back in 1971, London to Warsaw.

All of our fathers were alive and had experiences during WW2, hearing a very few of their stories was fascinating. Many of them just did not want to take about it. My childhood friend Richard, his father flew Spitfires in a Polish Squadron. The few stories we could get out of him....... WW2 and it's aircraft was very big in our lives....

CALTECH wrote:

That looks very Soviet. I'm guessing it's a TU-4 testing counter rotating engines designs for the Bear program.

Click Click D'oh wrote:

CALTECH wrote:

That looks very Soviet. I'm guessing it's a TU-4 testing counter rotating engines designs for the Bear program.

Yes. Looks like a Boeing/Tupolev hybrid. Except the engines were piston powered, not turboprops like on the Bear Bomber.

"A Tupolev Tu-4LL testbed with a contra-rotating Dobrynin VD-3TK engine installed in each outer position. The LL in the aircraft’s designation stood for “letayushchaya laboratoriya,” which means flying laboratory"

Read that the Tu-95 Bear and some of the derivatives have the same diameter fuselage as the Boeing B-29s that were impounded and held by the Soviets.

TU-4



TU-80



TU-85



TU-95LAL Nuclear Reactor Onboard



TU-116



Convairs B-52 Version Prototype, YB-60



Love the photos of what could have been.

If this heavy fighter aircraft had been picked over the ME-110, how would the Battle of Britain turned out, as this aircraft had better performance than the ME-109, ME-110, Hawker Hurricane, and Supermarine Spitfire.....



FW-187

CALTECH wrote:Came across some old photos on a old drive,

I can tell you the tail number, N221SF. I have fueled this plane, I have towed it, I have leaned on it while drunk, and I saw it daily when it was based out of SDL when I worked there. It has been gone for a long time now, not sure where. It spent its later days in camo drab green.

I will see if I have any photos I took of it, but here it is from the web.

Fumanchewd wrote:I can tell you the tail number, N221SF. I have fueled this plane, I have towed it, I have leaned on it while drunk, and I saw it daily when it was based out of SDL when I worked there. It has been gone for a long time now, not sure where. It spent its later days in camo drab green.

I will see if I have any photos I took of it, but here it is from the web.

Nice. I like the looks of her. What was the talk about it ? Pig or a decent airplane ?

Fumanchewd wrote:I can tell you the tail number, N221SF. I have fueled this plane, I have towed it, I have leaned on it while drunk, and I saw it daily when it was based out of SDL when I worked there. It has been gone for a long time now, not sure where. It spent its later days in camo drab green.

I will see if I have any photos I took of it, but here it is from the web.

Found this site,... if you care....

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/ ... Beast.aspx

T-33 derivative, Navy style



Souped up P-51 !

Some fascinating shots in this thread

ShanwickOceanic wrote:Some fascinating shots in this thread

Love to see the what could have beens......



This one caught me offguard....

CALTECH wrote:

This one caught me offguard....

What the devil!?!

Lucas wrote:

CALTECH wrote:

This one caught me offguard....

What the devil!?!

A Jet-powered Sturmovik.

CALTECH wrote:

Fumanchewd wrote:I can tell you the tail number, N221SF. I have fueled this plane, I have towed it, I have leaned on it while drunk, and I saw it daily when it was based out of SDL when I worked there. It has been gone for a long time now, not sure where. It spent its later days in camo drab green.

I will see if I have any photos I took of it, but here it is from the web.

Nice. I like the looks of her. What was the talk about it ? Pig or a decent airplane ?

Still a pig. I think that it was supposed to make the T33 a multi-engine trainer more than anything else, it still wasn't very fast.