woodie wrote:
The F-101 that was there was said to have been the first one built, but I can't say for sure.
The first F-101 was 53-2418 and it apparently spent most of its days as a testbed for General Electric.
[1]woodie wrote:
Col. Yeager crashed one of the NF-104's during that time (he was only a full-bird then).
This was the third NF-104, 56-0762.
[2]woodie wrote:
The Hughes Co. used a B-58 for testing, what they told us, was "the most powerful radar known to man" and we were told to get well away from the taxiway if it was coming by and had a flashing red light going under its nose. I never heard what aircraft the radar was later to be used on.
This was 55-0665 with the AN/ASG-18 radar.
[3]woodie wrote:
The C-141
This may have been 61-2779.
[4]woodie wrote:
F-111
This could have been one of five or six aircraft: 63-9771, 63-9777, 63-9778, 67-0115, and/or 63-9778.
[5]woodie wrote:
Northrop was testing a B-66 with a laminar flow wing
This was the
Northrop X-21 and there were actually two of them. The serial numbers were: 55-408 and 55-410.
[6]woodie wrote:
They had a company that tested a T-28 with a turboprop engine, On-Mark was testing the B-26K, and there was testing going on with the AT-37. I don't think the Air Force bought the turboprop T-28.
The YAT-28E, 51-3788, had a YT-55L-9 turboprop.
[7]woodie wrote:
They had a large airshow during my time there and a lot of unusual aircraft were displayed, including a Ryan vertical takeoff fighter type plane that later crashed and killed the pilot.
Major David H. Tittle was killed when he ejected from a
Ryan XV-5 Vertifan at low altitude on 5 October 1966.
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